From Los Angeles Times: The image of a catastrophic natural disaster that humbled a powerful leader may have stalked Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he made rapid-fire visits last week to areas devastated by snowstorms, but it...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A decision to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos is beneficial to public interest, a Chinese official said on Sunday. The regulation on Internet video service, approved by the State Administration of...
Read MoreFrom the Economic Observer, a Chinese official publication: On January 16th, Chinese government started up temporary price control measures in order to prevent rapid price increases and maintain a “normal and stable”...
Read MoreAs a battle over Green GDP continues to rage within China’s central government, China Daily, the country’s top state-run English language newspaper, issues a clarion call for the death of traditional growth...
Read MoreFrom AP: China has evacuated most of its citizens from Chad after an outbreak of violence in the country’s capital, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Hundreds of rebels charged into the capital N’Djamena and clashed...
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: As southern China enters its third week of freak snowstorms and plunging temperatures, government leaders have been falling over themselves to be seen on the front lines of disaster relief,...
Read MoreFrom The Observer: A little more than a week ago, in Davos, at the gathering of the world’s great and the good, Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, directed a polite, though pointed question to Pervez...
Read MoreDisastrous snowstorms swept Southern and Central China just before the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival. The group of photos below illustrates an electricity tower that has been wrapped with thick ice, causing power outages for...
Read MoreFew of China’s social problems have received more attention than the trend away from community and towards cold self-preservation. In “Hand in Hand,” disabled dancers Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei place this problem...
Read MoreSinger-songwriter Hu Pan has composed a song, “Going Home 2008,” to soothe migrant workers whose long-awaited trips home for Spring Festival have been thwarted by devastating winter weather in southern China. Lyrics...
Read MoreFrom AP: Investigators found insecticide on the outside of six bags of Chinese-made dumplings in Japan after separate dumplings made by the same company sickened 10 people there, police said Sunday. The police did not speculate...
Read MoreFrom Caijing: Relentless snowstorms continued battering wide swathes of central, eastern and southern China on January 30, adding to the chaos already caused by the worst winter weather the region has seen in 50 years. The...
Read MoreReuters reports that one migrant worker has been killed in a stampede trying to board long-awaited trains. It was the first stampede death of the snowstorm disaster that killed more than 60, mainly in road accidents:
Read MoreFrom AFP: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Saturday visited the Spratly islands, the defence ministry said, in a move aimed at underscoring Taipei’s claim to the disputed group but which will likely spark tensions in the...
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