The Guardian has posted a translation, by Human Rights Watch, of a letter written by activist Hu Jia, who is currently in jail in Beijing. The letter was written last September with lawyer Teng Biao when Hu was under house...
Read MoreAfter the international spotlight focused on the safety of the drug Heparin, produced in China, the State Food and Drug Administration has said that the responsibility to check a drug’s safety lies with the importing...
Read MoreAccording to scholars, the oral tradition of satiric “shunkouliu” or “slippery jingles”, which are often political in nature, can be traced back all the way to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). While state-controlled media is still...
Read MoreXinhua says that the recent scandals over forged photos of the South China Tiger and the extracurricular activities of Hong Kong celebrities show us the power of the Internet in helping netizens get their voices heard: From fake...
Read MoreChina’s inflation has become a headache for the government, so it is raising the minimum wage to calm down complaints about the consumer price index. Moming Zhou from MarketWatch.com reported the full story: In an effort...
Read MoreBeijing’s new airport terminal has opened to much media acclaim. From The Age: The terminal, built by 50,000 workers in four years after 10 villages were flattened, will increase Beijing Airport’s annual capacity...
Read MoreFrom SexyBeijing.TV: Check out some of China’s top, young snowboarding talent. The boarders were interviewed at this winter’s Nanshan Open snowboarding competition held outside Beijing. Snowboard pros from around the...
Read MoreIn part four of a five-part series on Putin’s Russia, Financial Times’ reporter Neil Buckley writes about two cities on the Sino-Russian border: Blagoveshchensk and Heihe. He describes the sometimes-prickly...
Read MoreAs a follow-up to James Fallows’ article “The Connection Has Been Reset,” about how well the so-called Great Firewall actually works, The Atlantic interviews Fallows about the reporting of the story: Your story...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Water supplies to about 200,000 people in central China have been contaminated by pollution, which has turned branches of a major river system red. At least three tributaries of the Han river – a branch of...
Read MoreFollowing public outrage over the beating death of a bystander in Tianmen by “urban management” (chengguan) officials, more stories of abuse by the forces are coming out. RFA Unplugged covers a recent incident...
Read MoreChina, Pakistan and Vietnam have been reported human deaths of Bird flu. Which country may be the next? From Reuters: China and Pakistan have announced bird flu outbreaks among poultry, a day after two women, one in China and...
Read MoreBeijing-based lawyer Yu Guofu points out, besides the negative influence of the resigned Hong Kong star, Edison Chen’s sex photos scandal, the event in fact suggests that, “there is no privacy protection law in China...
Read MoreHere are two photos from forum.china.com.cn, showing the crowds in line to get their temporary resident permits registered before the Olympics, taken in front of Liuliqiao Public Security Bureau, Beijing. Also from Danwei blog:...
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