From The Telegraph: China’s foreign minister denied yesterday that anyone raising the human rights issue in relation to this summer’s Beijing Olympics would be arrested. His denial came as Britain’s Foreign...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, more bad news for the manufacturers of the blood thinner Heparin: Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug...
Read MoreA new report, Tracking the Steel Dragon: How China’s economic policies and the railroad are transforming Tibet, from the International Campaign for Tibet has focused attention on the impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway on...
Read MoreCondoleezza Rice lobbied Chinese officials for Hu Jia’s release during her recent visit to Beijing, while human rights organizations testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. From the Washington...
Read MoreZeng Jianyan, wife of the detained activist Hu Jia, said once she was so angry that she bit one of the policemen who put his hand across her face. Her two-month old baby may do the same if she knows her father was taken away by...
Read MoreNovember 20, 2007, the employment conference for 2008 graduates in Jiangsu Province was held in the National Exhibition Center in Nanjing. About 58,000 university students came to look for a job. Source: Netease.com.
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes about a new effort to contain China through coalitions of its neighbors: While never openly espoused by any government, the idea has tempted foreign policy thinkers not...
Read MoreThe pesticide-laced dumplings sent to Japan and caused 10 people to be seriously ill, could not have been contaminated in China, according to Chinese authorities. And while both Japan and China have acknowledged that the...
Read MoreChinese officials are discussing reversing limitations on the number of children per family, a policy that has been enforced since 1979, reports the Times Online. China’s political leadership is considering ending the...
Read MoreNPR’s Talk of the Nation had a program about politics and the Olympics. The topic was not specifically about Beijing 2008 but naturally the topic came up: The Olympics serve not only as an arena where the best athletes in...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Yahoo News: Mothers of those killed in China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests have joined the list of groups invoking this summer’s Beijing Olympics to draw attention to their causes. In...
Read MoreBen L. Read, from the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa, has been researching grassroots organizing with a particular focus since 1999 on homeowners movements in China. In a Q&A over email with The...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times : Chinese banks will announce record profits for 2007 in the coming weeks in contrast with their global counterparts, which have been forced into large write-offs in the wake of the credit crisis. But 2008...
Read MoreMost kids aren’t learning about sex from their parents, according to a report released Wednesday. The All-China Women’s Federation polled 5,000 students aged six to 17 and 6,500 parents about how they communicating about sex, a...
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