The New York Times reports on the formal arrest of activist Hu Jia: Mr. Hu, 34, was first detained on Dec. 27, when security agents burst into his suburban Beijing apartment and dragged him away on suspicion of subverting state...
Read MoreIn The Guardian, Jonathan Watts asks Beijingers-on-the-street what role environmental protection plays in their daily lives. A magazine editor tells him: To China’s critics in the west, I would say, don’t just...
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak: Calls from within China to lift the ban on the trade of tiger parts have been widely publicised over the last month. I didn’t get a chance to mention Xinhua’s recent story on the issue before going on holiday so I might as well do it now. The article featured a revealing […]
Read MoreEvan Osnos, the Chicago Tribune’s Beijing bureau chief was awarded the Osborn Elliot Journalism Prize from the Asia Society. Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s Beijing correspondent, was awarded an honorable mention. The press release for the award says: In announcing the award, Mr. Pearlstine praised Mr. Osnos for his tenacity in traveling to the far corners […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): Chinese officials and construction workers yesterday celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, 13 years after work first started on one of the world’s largest and most controversial engineering projects. In a live TV broadcast, workers poured the last of 28 million cubic metres of cement to finish the gargantuan […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune [link – registration required]: In a classroom at one of China’s top universities, an elite group of young researchers huddle over an urgent question: Can Beijing clean up its filthy air in time for the 2008 Olympics? For China, it is nothing short of a Manhattan Project on air quality. Their […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Before handing over to my colleague Jonathan Watts in 2003, I covered a range of important stories to which I had been alerted by excellent reporting in the Chinese press or TV. There were powerful exposes of mining and environmental disasters linked to official corruption, of the plight of migrant workers cheated […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A journalist with the British newspaper, The Guardian, was beaten and had his mobile phone smashed last night during an attempt to visit the village of Taishi in Guangdong Province, the scene of an acrimonious dispute over a lucrative land deal. According to information received by Interfax, a Chinese citizen was killed in […]
Read MoreBy Jonathan Watts in the Guardian (free reg. required): China’s communist authorities have intensified their campaign against the party’s biggest potential enemy – the internet – with the recruitment of a growing army of secret web commentators, sophisticated new monitoring software and a warning that all bloggers and bulletin board operators must register with the […]
Read More“Nine hundred billion tonnes of water flow down China’s greatest river, the Yangtze, every year. On the way, it powers the world’s biggest hydro-electric scheme, slakes the thirst of 400 million people and serves as a rubbish dump for a growing number of supercities, factories, farms and ships. Jonathan Watts traces its path from source […]
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