In the post-Olympics China, another round of media crackdown is clearly underway. Still, the Southern Metropolis Weekly just profiled 20 of the most influential bloggers and commentators in China’s cyberspace, who possess...
Read MoreFrom AP via CNN: That round-eared mouse dancing with kids? Not a copy of Disney’s Mickey Mouse, the Shijingshan Amusement Park Áü≥Êôر±Ê∏∏‰πêÂõ≠ insists. And that raven-haired woman with seven men in elf suits? Not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs…. “We do not have any agreements with Disney,” its deputy general manager, Yin Zhiqiang, said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Globe and Mail: A Chinese roadside sausage seller was given a suspended death sentence on Tuesday for slitting a government inspector’s throat in a case that gripped the nation and highlighted a yawning wealth gap. Cui Yingjie (Â¥îËã±Êù∞), 23, killed Li Zhiqiang with a fruit knife in suburban Beijing last August […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegragh: On one side are the Chinese Communist Party, multi-millionaire property developers and the full force of globalisation in the fastest-growing city on Earth. On the other, a house, a hole in the ground, and Yang Wu and his wife Wu Ping. The house stands in the centre of a large pit. The […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: On August 11, 2006, Cui Yingjie (崔英杰), a migrant street peddler in Haidian Distrcit, Beijing, got into a fight with Haidian’s chengguan [officials in charge of checking business licenses, enforcing...
Read MoreThanks to David Kelly for this translation: In the PRC, all who pay attention to the economic situation can see ever more clearly that Wen Jiabao’s macro adjustment has not achieved its anticipated effect. The speed of investment growth still shows no sign of dropping, while the proportion of expenditure by residents continues to fall. […]
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