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In an article about government control of the Internet, the Globe and Mail interviews Liu Di, the “Stainless Steel Mouse” and gives an update on writer Du Daobin: “Ms. Liu is now a major player in an intense tug of war between China’s police-state apparatus and a growing number of politically astute Internet users who […]
Read MoreChina is facing a major challenge with the rapidly growing number of elderly in the country, reports the China Daily: “About 7 per cent of China’s population is currently 65 or over. But a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences report predicts this will rise to 14 per cent within two to three decades… The […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Jonathan Watts analyzes Chinese media coverage of recent events, including the Daping mining disaster, and the difficult position editors are in trying to report the news while also toeing the party line: “With China in the throes of a remarkable transition, it cannot be easy for any of the country’s newspaper editors […]
Read MoreAsia Times has another article about the rise of social unrest in China, “Recent protests have been sparked by the near-fatal beating of a migrant worker, an illegal hike in taxi fees and low wages in an electronics plant – to name a few. These are but the tip of the iceberg in the nation […]
Read MoreThe Straits Times has reported on a suicide bid by migrant construction workers in Shenyang who had not received their pay and were worried about their families’ survival: “The group suicide bid was discovered in time by a co-worker. The man, surnamed Liu, had returned to the hostel from a nearby town where he had […]
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