The Los Angeles Times is running a profile story about the Chinese crackdown on North Korean refugees. The arrests have been part of China’s relentless crackdown on North Koreans who cross over in an attempt to defect to...
Read MoreThe Health Ministry revealed today that new cases of HIV/AIDS in China rose by 45 percent in 2006. Last year China lowered its estimate of infected individuals by about 2,000 people, despite international warnings that the...
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor : To most Beijingers, the receipt the attendant gives them for the six cents paid to use the public toilets in the subway is a worthless piece of scrap, quickly crumpled up and thrown away. To...
Read MoreFrom BBC News : China has defended its sale of weapons to Sudan , amid growing criticism of its alleged failure to help resolve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. China’s special envoy on Darfur told the BBC that Beijing...
Read MoreFrom BBC News : Five men are to appear in court in China charged with producing fake receipts that could have cost the state billions of dollars, state media said. The men are accused of forging over one million receipts worth a...
Read MoreIn yet even more drama over the satellite shoot-down, China is now urging the United States to disclose more information. Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Beijing was asking the US to “provide...
Read MoreNot every fashionable wedding demands a lavish banquet and a limousine, reports Shanghai Daily – and for the record number of Chinese couples expected to marry this year, that may be a relief: When Xu Lin and her...
Read MoreYahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has written to Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, asking the U.S. government to demand the release of two Chinese dissidents, Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, who were both imprisoned after Yahoo! supplied...
Read MoreChina confirms that a man from Guangxi has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus. From Voice of America: China’s Health Ministry says a 41-year-old man from southern China has died of bird flu, the country’s second death...
Read MoreIn China, lunch meetings are often a time to conduct business over food and drinks. A year after Henan officials were banned from lunchtime libations, the province’s alcohol industry is fighting back, claiming that as a...
Read MoreChing Cheong, the recent released journalist talked on his innocence and health. From Shanghaiist: Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent of the Singapore-based Straits Times that was jailed in China for supposed espionage...
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Danwei follows a debate about the current state of Chinese literature sparked by German Sinologist Wolfgang Kubin’s most recent comments that contemporary Chinese authors have “sold-out.” And, prompted novelist...
Read MoreBeijing accused Washington of holding China to a double standard after the US Navy successfully destroyed a satellite 150 miles above the Pacific last night, the Guardian reports. Last year when China similarly shot down a...
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