Brother of Jailed Former Hu Aide Charged Over Graft
Ling Zhengce, the former vice-chairman of the Shanxi People’s Political Consultative...
Shanxi
Minitrue: Strengthening Public Opinion in Jinzhong
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In Limbo, a City in China Faces Life After Graft
For the New York Times, Ian Johnson looks at the impact Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption...
Minitrue: “Connections Won’t Shield Graft Probes”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: 39 Missing in Shanxi Explosion
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Suspect Held Over Taiyuan Bombings
Xinhua reports that police are holding a man in connection with Wednesday’s explosions...
Minitrue: Guangxi Shooting, Shanxi Explosions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China To Give Rewards for Curbing Air Pollution
China on Monday said it would offer financial rewards for reducing air pollution in six regions,...
Dead Aunt Suspected in Eye-Gouging of 6-Year-Old Boy
The now deceased aunt of Guo Bin, the 6-year-old boy found with his eyes gouged out in Shanxi...
6-Year-Old’s Eyes Gouged Out, Possibly for Corneas
The Global Times reports on a reward offered for information about the 6-year-old boy whose eyes...
Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Coal Industry
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin writes that the Shanxi government’s attempt to use tax cuts to...
China Resources Probe Brings New Scrutiny to SOEs
State-owned conglomerate and Fortune 500 company China Resources is under investigation after state media journalist Wang Wenzhi accused senior executives of corruption and wrongdoing last month from his Sina Weibo account....
New Studies Link Pollution to Birth Defects
For Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes that several recent studies have firmed up the link between pollution and birth defects in China and beyond: Tong Zhu, now a Princeton Global Scholar, together with research...
Dam Breach in Shanxi Leads to Flooding, Evacuation
Chinese state media reports that a dam in Shanxi has collapsed causing the shutdown of a highway. This comes amid criticism of the Shanxi government’s cover up of a water contamination incident due to an industrial aniline...
Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
Widening Discontent Among the Party Faithful
The New York Times’ Edward Wong connects several of the year’s major stories so far, including the Southern Weekly anti-censorship protests and cases of severe air and water pollution in Beijing and elsewhere. Each...
A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China
An aniline spill in Shanxi on New Year’s Eve caused extended disruption of water supplies in the downstream Hebei city of Handan earlier this month. Public anger at the authorities’ five-day cover-up then led to four...
Leak Highlights China’s Water Pollution Problem
Chinese state media reports contamination of a north Chinese river has led the water supply in Handan to be cut off, from Xinhua: A statement by the city government said the cut-off was caused by an accident in the neighboring...
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