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In the second related protest in two weeks, hundreds of people gathered on the streets in Kunming to protest the construction of an oil refinery and paraxylene (PX) plant near the city. The South China Morning Post is posting...
Read MoreIn an opinion piece in the Guardian, writer Murong Xuecun discusses the closure of his various weibo accounts and the ongoing crackdown on Internet expression in China: Not long ago, scholar Zhang Xuezhong, Xiao Xuehui, Song...
Read MoreA short film in the New York Times’ OpDoc series looks at blogger Zhang Shihe, also known as Tiger Temple, who rides his bicycle through China’s countryside and documents the lives of villagers: In a country with one...
Read MoreChinese netizens have recently discovered the public petition system on the White House website, and several petitions created by Chinese citizens have gone viral, notably one calling for an investigation of a 1994 poisoning...
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch has issued a new report looking at the abuse of sex workers in China. From AP: Human Rights Watch says they interviewed women who told of violence by police and of being detained following sex with undercover...
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