An update in the brouhaha over allegedly faked photos of a South China Tiger. From Xinhua Net, translated by CDT: On October 12, 2007, our office held a news conference, during which we announced that ‘Zhenping County...
Read MoreReuters and RTHK are reporting that Straits Times reporter Ching Cheong has been freed from prison: China has freed Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong reporter for Singapore’s Straits Times sentenced to five years for spying for...
Read MoreIn one of the biggest annual movements of humanity, about 200 million Chinese make roughly 2.2 billion trips over the Lunar New Year holiday. This year, Jack Frost made a guest appearance, causing massive travel delays, damaging...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The trade body representing the global record industry has launched piracy lawsuits against China’s biggest internet companies. Firms targeted in the legal action include Baidu, China’s largest...
Read MoreFrom AP: The World Bank cut its 2008 economic growth forecast for China to 9.6 percent from 10.8 percent on Monday due to cooling global export demand and said storms battering southern China should have little long-term impact....
Read MoreMillions of Chinese people suffered from the severe snowstorms recently. However, the big snow brought not only suffering to people but also relaxing moments. A post on Tianya.com collects the pictures of snowmen people built...
Read MoreCDT’s own Timothy Lesle has produced a lengthy and interesting audio slideshow for Frontline/World about Huangbaiyu, the eco-city being built as a cooperative project with U.S. architect William McDonough. Lesle looks at...
Read MoreIn the Times Literary Supplement, Rosemary Righter reviews three recent books about China’s economic reforms: The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the twenty-first century by Will Hutton; Getting Rich First: Life...
Read MoreThanks Dani for the response to CDT’s previous post Guangzhou Train Station During Spring Festival. Here is the comment and video: Regarding the situation in Guangdong, a photographer and myself have been in front of the...
Read MoreFrom BBC: Chinese weather experts have admitted that they were not properly prepared for the snow storms that have left hundreds of thousands stranded. The cold weather seen in recent weeks has been the worst to hit central and...
Read MoreChina Media Project translates an op-ed from the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily which argues that China needs more input from civil society groups to effectively deal with crises like the current snow emergency: But there are...
Read MoreHoward French reports in the New York Times on the growing and creative forms of resistance by Internet users to censorship: For a vast majority of Internet users, censorship still does not appear to be much of a factor. The...
Read MoreFrom Sky News : The International Olympic Committee has been accused of breaking a promise to push China for greater media freedom ahead of the Beijing Games. China is the “world’s leading jailer of...
Read MoreAfter painstaking endeavors, the main north-south highway reopened in China, but heavy fog weather in southern part of China still added heavy workload and difficulties on transportations. From AP via International Herald...
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