A small community of Ahmadiyya Muslims make their homes in China after fleeing religious persecution in their native Pakistan–but now, according to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, China wants them out. China may have signed...
Read MoreMedia baron Rupert Murdoch apologized to Jiang Zemin and Li Peng in a 1997 letter, years after claiming that communications technologies were a threat to totalitarian regimes, according to a forthcoming book by a former News...
Read MoreMining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. will increase its iron ore shipments to China’s Baosteel Group Corp. by 94 million metric tons in the next decade, according to Bloomberg. China’s iron imports–necessary for steel...
Read MoreAfter a wave of food safety alarms last year, another Chinese-manufactured food is under scrutiny. This time, it’s dumplings imported into Japan by Japan Tobacco, Inc. According to Reuters: Japan Tobacco Inc said on...
Read MoreAccording to Reuters, in 2007, a total of 101,480 Chinese died in workplace accidents — including 81,649 deaths from road accidents. China’s Olympics aquatic center, the “Water Cube,” opens as the...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on tainted cancer medicine produced in China for export. According to the article, the same company is the sole producer for the U.S. of the abortion drug mifepristone, or RU-486: A huge state-owned...
Read MoreThe AP, via the Washington Post, reports that new rules limiting Internet video sites are set to go into effect tomorrow: The rules are aimed at expanding a Chinese censorship system that tries to block Internet use to spread...
Read MoreFrom Boston Review, via A Glimpse of the World blog: After more than a century of relative stagnation, the economies of India and China have been growing at remarkably high rates over the past 25 years. In 1820 the two countries...
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Some of the worst winter weather to hit southern China in decades took 25 more lives Tuesday when a bus plunged off an icy road, adding to the chaos the snowstorms have caused during the...
Read MoreFrom AP via Examiner.com: Shanghai’s mayor won a second five-year term Wednesday, cementing his political survival after a wide-ranging corruption scandal brought down the city’s Communist Party boss. Han Zheng, 57,...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports on a Party-produced documentary about the men behind the Shanghai pension fund scandal: Middle-aged men, behind bars and dressed in prison uniforms, wipe away tears as they admit on camera to...
Read MoreThe New Yorker profiles boxer Zou Shiming, who is China’s first contender for an Olympic gold medal: On a cold night in November, Zou Shiming, the captain of China’s national boxing team, arrived early for a banquet in his...
Read MoreThe New York Times looks at the arrest of activist Hu Jia as a signal of what’s to come as the Olympics approach: For human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents, Mr. Hu’s detention is the most telling example of what...
Read MoreHao Jingsong is a law student at the China University of Politics and Law. He’s challenging the legal system by taking on some well-known controversial cases, including the South China Tiger case. He was the first to...
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