From Reuters: China will publish the results of an official investigation into recent suicides at the giant manufacturing complex of the electronics maker Foxconn in southern China, a Chinese labor affairs official said over the...
Read MoreFrom McClatchy: The story of Peng’s lonely suicide reveals the pitfalls beneath the glossy surface of China’s booming economy. Ordinary Chinese who’ve been cheated or defrauded, especially in rural areas, find...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on efforts by homeowners to stop the forced demolition of their property by developers: China is not a good setting for a Frank Capra tale, but people do have influence over their autocratic masters....
Read MoreIn previous translations, CDT has revealed how Chinese political police, the Domestic Security Department or DSD, has recruited a vast network of intelligence agents to spy on Chinese citizen. Chinese netizens have now dug out...
Read MoreThe central government has warned local officials that they need to settle disputes with migrant workers over unpaid wages before the Lunar New Year holiday, which starts on February 14. From AP: The rare urgent warning from the...
Read MoreCharles Zhang (Zhang Chaoyang 张朝阳) is the Founder, Chairman and current CEO of Sohu, China’s second largest Internet portal and the first Chinese-language search engine. Widely recognized as one of China’s Internet...
Read MoreChina Media Project translates remarks by the head of the State Council Information Office (SCIO) about China’s goals for external propaganda work in 2010: At China’s annual national conference on external news and...
Read MoreLoretta Chao and Jason Dean reports on the Wall Street Journal: These appear to be dark days for the Internet in China. Four months into a crusade against Internet pornography, the government is closing thousands of sites—some...
Read MoreThe Green Leap Forward blog looks at the day’s events at the Copenhagen climate change conference, with negotiations continuing over an alternative to the leaked “Danish text”: A significant shift and softening...
Read MoreForbes interviews Michael Anti about the ongoing crackdown on Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and Twitter: Forbes: Facebook and Twitter have been blocked here in China since the unrest this year in Xinjiang, and some Chinese...
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