From Shanghai Daily: A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times...
An explosion at a coal mine in Hunan has left 17 dead and one injured. From AFP: The blast happened on Saturday in Hunan province’s Rucheng county, an official with the provincial work safety bureau, who refused to be...
From China Media Project: It was just over a week ago that China’s long-awaited national ordinance on openness of information took effect, mandating “active disclosure” by local governments of a whole range of policy-related...
From Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: In a letter addressed to Zhang Chunxian, Hunan’s provincial party secretary, a whistle blower from a village in Yizhang County of Chenzhou laid out his efforts to report on corruption and the life-threatening tribulation he has gone through with his family. Huang Yuanxun, a farmer who taught himself […]
From Oriental Net via Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: The legacy of Lei Yuanli, former vice mayor of Hunan‘s Chenzhou City and party secretary of Yongxing County, includes impressive urbanization projects that changed the local landscape, a county version of the People’s Congress Hall at Yongxing, and massive debts from his construction programs. “People […]
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