From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom STUFF: New Zealand’s leading news and information website: China used the global war against terrorism to crack down on peaceful opponents of its rule in Muslim Xinjiang and committed persistent human rights abuses in 2004, the United States state department said today. China and its neighbours North Korea and Myanmar were the three Asian […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Beijing-controlled oil giant Sinopec has discovered at least one billion tonnes of oil and a gas field in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, which could add at least a third to the country’s proven oil reserves. Sinopec Corp. , the Hong Kong-listed unit of Sinopec Group, said it had found 1.08 billion tonnes […]
Read MoreA report by a U.N. agency and the Chinese Cabinet’s AIDS commission released shows that the number of people contracting the AIDS virus in China is rising, reported the Washington Post. An estimated 840,000 people have HIV while 84,000 have full-blown AIDS, spread mostly through prostitution and intravenous drug use. President Hu Jintao shown shaking […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Since China’s annexation of the Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region in 1950, Beijing has pursued policies that have put considerable pressure on the local environment. This western region, which borders Central Asia, is home to China’s main nuclear testing site. Pollution does not respect political boundaries, which is why the impact of the 42 […]
Read MoreA fire which broke out more than 100 years ago at a coal field in western China was finally extinguished: “In the last four years, firefighters have spent $12m in efforts to put out the flames at Liuhuanggou colliery, near Urumqi in Xinjiang province. The burning coal emitted 100,000 tons of harmful gases – including […]
Read MoreIn Asia Times, Colin Mackerras reviews a new book, Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland – Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, a collection of essays edited by S Frederick Starr: “Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland is not the first book to focus on Xinjiang… However, it is the first to take an all-round view on Xinjiang […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The PC game, “Hearts of Iron“, was accused of distorting historical facts in describing “Manchuria”, “West Xinjiang”, and “Tibet” as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. “All these severely distort […]
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