From LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California: An explosion in a coal mine Monday in China’s far west killed 41 people, with another 42 still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang region, when about 87 miners were working, […]
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times online: China is one of the most prominent authoritarian states to have successfully asserted such opportunistic claims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York City that killed more than 3,000 Americans. The main reason is that prior to September 11, Beijing had failed to silence […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic, killing many millions of people after the mass deaths of wild birds in China. Unconfirmed reports say that more than 100 people have also died, suggesting that the virus may have evolved to pass from […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Few Westerners have heard of the Uygurs, a proud, Turkic-speaking people descended from nomads, who today scratch out a living in the rugged mountains and deserts of landlocked Xinjiang province. But supporters see them as a prime example of a beleaguered population caught in the crunch between the vaunted worldwide drive for […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Serious shortages of primary energy sources like oil and coal have prompted the mainaland Chinese government to promulgate a law on the development of renewable energy sources. Solar energy could be the first choice as an alternative to fossil fuels. China’s western areas, especially the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Two U.S.-based human rights groups have accused China of using the law heavy-handedly to clamp down on Muslim Uighurs in its restive western region of Xinjiang in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism. Beijing’s “wholesale assault” on the Uighurs’ faith ranged from vetting imams and closing mosques to detaining thousands every year and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the westernmost region in China, will invest 13.68 million yuan (1.65 million US dollars) in the coming three years to build a wetland reserve along the Ertix River, China’s only river emptying into the Arctic Ocean, according to the local government. The Keketuohai wetland reserve, located in Habahe […]
Read MoreChina blocked portions of the BBC’s China Week reports, according to this report in South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: Transmissions of the BBC World channel’s week-long series of mainland-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners were repeatedly blocked yesterday during reports on politics and other sensitive issues. A story […]
Read MoreFrom AsiaNews/SCMP: Tibetan monks, Xinjiang Muslims, but also non violent dissidents, farmers and members of underground religious communities are among those arrested. Youth crime climbs by 19.1 per cent. China’s courts were not idle in 2004. More than 800,000 people were arrested last year for endangering state security or for being involved in activities regarded […]
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