From Sichuan Daily via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT: Dazhu County party secretary Wang Wei (Áé㉺ü) was suspended from his job, as was the county’s police chief Lai Jingsong (˵ñÂä≤Êùæ), as two “victims” of the recent fire rioting that burnt down a hotel where a woman employee was recently raped and murdered. A suspect, Liu Chikun […]
Read MoreI’ve asked a few of China’s more celebrated journalists why it is that they tend to neglect their celebrity blogs. The main reason, they say, is because the same Chinese portals who so wish to host their blogs often cannot publish their posts. In his own roundabout way, Sohu.com news editor Chen Feng ÈôàÂ≥∞ (pictured) […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for this translation and commentary on documents pertaining to the recent trial of reproductive rights activist Chen Guangcheng. For more details on Chen’s trial, see a detailed statement from Chinese Human Rights Defenders. David Cowhig writes: Defense lawyers for Shandong family planning rights activist Chen Guangcheng, accused of incitement […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The creator of China’s largest pornographic Web site was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported. Xinhua News Agency said judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People’s Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they […]
Read MoreHe Jiadong (‰ΩïÂÆ∂ʆã) died in mid-October in Beijing’s Tongren Hospital (Âê剪ÅÂåªÈô¢) at age 83. A top Party ideologue and would-be reformer, He was the writer and editor of a well-known revolutionary biography: „ÄäAll...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Beijing’s first clinic for gay people, also China’s first to provide free services, opened Wednesday, providing checkups for all sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea and genital herpes. Xiao Dong, head of the Chaoyang Chinese AIDS Volunteer Group, said free treatment would be given to STD carriers, and confirmed HIV […]
Read MoreIt’s not a bad day for Chinese journalists, relatively speaking, when they can run their own personal horror stories about getting harassed. In the past day, the horror story they’ve been talking about is Liu Wanyong’s. Liu, an investigative reporter for the China Youth Daily’s watchdog supplement Freezing Point, got a quite a fright on […]
Read MoreLast installment in the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Swindled (“È™ó”Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Chen Yaonan (ÈôàËÄÄÂçó), deputy party secretary of Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu Province. An ambitious #2 boss in his city who wanted to be the one who commands, Chen slip into a trap set up […]
Read MoreChina analyst David Cowhig provided the following to CDT: In a recent blog posting, Zeng Jinyan, AIDS and rights activist and the wife of Hu Jia, discusses the mission of the PRC Public Security Domestic Security Detachment Guo’an ÂõΩÂÜÖÂÆâÂÖ®‰øùÂç´ÊîØÈòü. (See the earlier CDT post China: Cows, pigs and balls. See also the Chinese language Wikipedia […]
Read MoreContinuing the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Prostitution-raided (“´ñ“Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Chen Lijun (ÈôàÁ´ãÈíß), Zhoushan City’s chief of customs. In fall 2000, Zhejiang police deployed a major maneuver to bust smuggler Dong Xinshu and his associates in Zhouhan City. Early in the morning, policemen went into Dong’s […]
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