Is this really just “the season of scandal”? Or is it simply that “reality is catching up”? From International Herald Tribune: This has been the season of scandal in China, from the revelation that hundreds of people, including kidnapped children, had been held as virtual slaves to work in the primitive brick factories of Shanxi […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China announced new regulations on Tuesday to reduce government secrecy and grant citizens greater access to official information, but the regulations include broad exceptions that raise questions about how much new openness will be tolerated. The regulations, approved in a decree signed by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, were announced with […]
Read MoreBelow is a partial translation of an article written by Pan Xiaotao(ÊΩòÂ∞èÊ∂õ), a political commentator from Hong Kong, on Asia Times Online After the Chinese New Year, China’s Pearl River Delta area will suffer a “migrant worker shortage” again. Factories in the area will not be able to recruit enough ideal workers, and the situation […]
Read MoreA fun life-journal piece from the Christian Science Monitor about getting a driver’s license for a foreigner: The Chinese authorities make it both easy and hard to get a license. Easy, because if you already have a foreign license, you don’t have to take the practical test and also (and this is a BIG easy) […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Week: China’s prime minister called for broad nuclear power cooperation with France on Tuesday but urged improvements to French bids to supply a new generation of Chinese reactors and services. On the third day of an official visit to France, Wen Jiabao said China is seeking “all-around cooperation” with France in nuclear […]
Read MoreFrom CBC: In a new attempt to reassert control over popular culture, China has barred new foreign television channels and plans to step up censorship of imported programs. China has greatly liberalized media markets over the past three years and satellite broadcasters such as News Corp. and Viacom have moved in. But that’s prompted concern […]
Read MoreAt the conference “China: European and American Democracies Face the Challenge,” held on February 24 – 25, 2005, in Prague, Czech Republic (organized by the Czech Civic Center and the Project for New American Century), this author argues that “China’s economic growth has not been translated into meaningful protection of each and every Chinese citizens’ […]
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