Melamine, the same chemical at the center of the Sanlu milk controversy, has been found in Yili brand yogurt. Bloomberg reports: Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department found melamine in Yili’s...
Read MoreNow the world knows that China’s leading milk powder maker is engulfed in a PR crisis, for failing to promptly recall contaminated baby formula. But there’s yet more to dig out, such as whether the timing of the...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China Eastern Airlines admitted yesterday that a merger with Shanhai Airlines, its smaller rival carrier in eastern China, is being actively considered. Cao Jianxiong, president of China Eastern, said the...
Read MoreSimon Elegant reports in the Time Magazine, from Beijing: As most Chinese media were celebrating Beijing’s Olympics successes, a magazine named Southern Window — a highbrow biweekly with a circulation of 500,000 — broke...
Read MoreEarlier this month Dissent Magazine hosted a debate between Daniel A. Bell and Michael Walzer about the international community’s role in China: In the end, Bell has narrowed the debate such that it’s a bit of a trap. He...
Read MoreFrom the Nanfang Daily, translated by Dr. David Kelly, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney: It has been confirmed to me by authoritative channels that on August 2, Wu Jianping, Chief of the Food Production...
Read MoreThe following diary was originally posted in Chinese and provides a glimpse into life in a remote Tibetan area as the Olympics were being celebrated in Beijing: The “Olympics Diary” of a Tibetan By Tashibod Today is Tuesday,...
Read MoreThe AP reports that Hua Guofeng passed away on Wednesday at age 87: Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic...
Read MoreThis is Financial Times’ Editorial: China has also broken its promise to allow “complete freedom” to the media. No one expected the domestic media suddenly to be unshackled for the Olympics – the heated debate in China...
Read MoreA British journalist was roughed up and detained as he was reporting on a pro-Tibet protest on the Olympic green. AP reports: On Wednesday, a British television journalist was detained by police as he tried to report on a...
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