For Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan follows up on the story that Hunan family planning officials are being investigated for illegally confiscating babies who were born in violation of the one-child policy: Caixin has more on the...
Read MoreAn investigation in Hunan has revealed that family planning officials and local village officials confiscated babies from families who could not afford to pay the fine for having more than one child, and sold the children to...
Read MoreCharges against lawyer Li Zhuang, who was accused of falsifying evidence while defending a gangster in the Chongqing corruption crackdown have been dropped. From the New York Times: Li Zhuang, 50, a criminal lawyer from Beijing,...
Read MoreAnother case involving a car, a privileged college student, and a rural peasant, has inflamed emotions among Chinese netizens on both sides of the case. The assailant, Yao Jiaxin, a promising student at the Xi’an...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the Chinese security apparatus that cracks down on activists and dissidents, and the relationship between Beijing and the provincial governments that carry out the orders locally: Despite persistent...
Read MoreRecent studies reveal that as much as 10% of China’s rice is contaminated with excessive levels of heavy metals. Often, farmers in poorer areas consume most of the contaminated rice . Caixin has done an expose on...
Read MoreThe official Chinese media has reported on the revolution in Egypt, but has chosen to focus on the chaos surrounding the ouster of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. From the Los Angeles Times: The...
Read MoreLegal expert Stanley Lubman weighs in on legal reform restricting housing demolition. From China Real Time Report: n October 2010, thugs hired by a demolition company to destroy a house forcefully entered it and brutally...
Read MoreCaixin has a report on how local governments and developers often “trample on” the land rights of villagers and farmers: Local governments such as Tengchong’s must obtain permission from provincial government...
Read MoreChina has called for “emergency consultations” between North and South Korea to try to mitigate escalating tensions in the wake of the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island. From the New York Times: …The Chinese...
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