Here’s yet another stir-fried tale of muckraking that has begged (and somewhat blurred) the ethical question of the hour: is the system to blame, or the journalists? For the past few weeks, Sohu.com has been polling readers opinions’ in the case of Bai Rundai. The senior investigative journalist for the Henan Commercial News, a six-time […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Hank Paulson, the new US Treasury secretary, heads to China on Tuesday to make common cause with the country’s economic reformers, who are on the defensive after sustained attacks on market economics and foreign investment. Mr Paulson will open his trip with an unusual gesture when he visits Xi Jinping, the party […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: A strange case happened at Urad Front Banner (‰πåÊãâÁâπÂâçÊóó) in Inner Mongolia. A retired official (ÁßëÁ∫ß) moved from an old house to a new one while leaving behind a savings account book with 470,000 yuan in it. While the old house was torn down, a […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: Top U.S. officials are criticizing what they call China’s indiscriminate sale of weapons to rogue countries, suggesting that Beijing’s shortsighted policies has had made the world more dangerous. Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for international security, urged China to re-evaluate its relationship with Iran and North Korea, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China cut export incentives for steel and textiles and increased them for high-technology and biomedical goods, seeking to curb a record trade surplus and encourage production of higher-value goods. Export rebates on steel and textiles were cut by as much as 3 percentage points while incentives for technology and processed agricultural products were […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: You could almost hear the clock ticking last week as diplomats scrambled to find a solution to end the killing in Darfur, western Sudan… Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur ” Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Chinese officials promised today that new rules restricting the sale of foreign wire service news would not affect press freedoms. But they also strongly defended efforts to control the distribution of financial and economic news inside the country. Xinhua, China’s main government news agency, issued regulations on Sunday that would […]
Read MoreAnother Chinese characteristics: automated verdict issuing. From Reuters via the New York Times: A court in China has used a software program to help decide prison sentences in more than 1,500 criminal cases, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday. The software, tested for two years in a court in Zibo, a city in the […]
Read MoreThe following is the final version of a piece that ran in today’s Asian Wall Street Journal, written by Beijing-based rights defense lawyers Li Jinsong, Zhang Lihui, Li Fangping, Teng Biao, and Xu Zhiyong: Chen Guangcheng, a blind advocate for the rights of Chinese villagers, recently made headlines around the world when he was sentenced […]
Read MoreAmid the recent swirling news tightening waves, some more discipline with the judicial system, from Xinhua net via Sina.com, translated by CDT: Vice President Cao Jianming of China’s Supreme Court stressed the need to strictly observe news release discipline in courts across the country. Some embargoed items, quite arbitrary in case of ambiguity, include: contents […]
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