From Henan Commercial Daily (河南商报), via people.com.cn: Migrant workers in Zhengzhou sleep in front of a contractor’s car in order to get their salaries paid on Jan. 4, 2008. This topic on the Web, via...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has published a list of stringent anti-corruption rules for public officials ahead of a reshuffle of provincial posts later this month. Called the “10 taboos”, the list bans bribery, lobbying for...
Read MoreNew York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes about China’s influence on the global oil market, global warming and the U.S. presidential election: Turn to any of several major concerns now facing America, and in each case it’s startling how large a role China plays. Start with the soaring price of oil. Unlike the oil crises […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: The 2008 Beijing Olympics have become a public-relations vehicle for the Chinese government, corporate sponsors — and now even a betrayed wife. Since last Friday, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Internet users have watched an online video showing Hu Ziwei, wife of popular sportscaster Zhang Bin, hijacking an Olympics news conference […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit China this month as the two nations seek to end a decades-old border dispute and push forward warming ties, Beijing said. Singh will visit China from January 13 to 15, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters, offering few specifics on the trip. However, she […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The suspended controversial Xiamen city PX plant probably will not become a landmark wherever it finally stands, but it may have helped lay a cornerstone that boosts ordinary Chinese people’s participation in policy making. The authorities in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian Province put a paraxylene (PX) plant project, earmarked for Haicang District 16 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Authorities in China have banned a film set in a Beijing massage parlour that had already been heavily censored for its sexually explicit content. Lost In Beijing was released in Chinese cinemas on 30 November after scenes showing dirty streets, prostitutes and gambling were removed from the movie. According to the State […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Harbin is feeling the effects of global warming first-hand as last year the northernmost major city in China recorded its highest annual average temperature, meteorologists said on Friday. The average annual temperature in the capital of the northeastern Heilongjiang Province, dubbed the “city of ice” and famed for its annual ice sculpture festival, […]
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Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan have dispatched several hundred riot police to Baima village, where a land dispute has flared into clashes with local residents. A Baima resident surnamed Li said on Dec. 27 the riot police were armed with truncheons and were beating villagers. His account has […]
Read MoreIn the New York Observer, New York Times’ Beijing bureau chief Joseph Kahn reflects on his years in China: “I think it’s actually surprisingly easy for Americans to come here and feel like they can fit in,” Joseph Kahn said, sitting in a coffee shop called Sequoia, a block north of the gate of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Southern Weekend, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: The field of journalism is vast, so there is a lot that we can talk about. But usually the third last sentence that we say with a degree of resignation is this: “We can’t publish that. So we won’t discuss that.” The second last sentence is: “We can […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: Back in 2001, China’s Olympic bid committee argued that awarding the 2008 Games to Beijing would help the development of human rights. The message was intended for foreign, not Chinese, ears but it has spread through more than a million Chinese chat rooms and 20 million blogs. Not only intellectuals but elder […]
Read MoreCurrent journalist Kristy Wong went to Shanghai and interviewed Chinese young people. They talked about the Shanghai dream, Shanghai reality, job market, salaries and so on. When asked political questions about China, they refused to give any opinion on the issue. [Click to see]
Read MoreAn alarming report from Reuters: China will have exploited all available water supplies to the limit by 2030, the government has warned, ordering officials to prepare for worse to come as global warming and economic expansion drain lakes and rivers. As well, a state newspaper warned on Friday that drought next year could hit crops […]
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