ESWN has translated an article from Southern Weekend about the planned move of the Xiamen PX project to Zhangzhou City: On December 14 after the Xiamen PX District Environmental Assessment Forum was held, Xiamen city government deputy secretary-general Zhu Zilu was interviewed by Southern Weekend and he said that the ultimate fate of the PX […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via ABC News: China has denied there had been a new stand-off between residents and authorities in a troubled village where police opened fire on demonstrators protesting against a controversial power plant two years ago. More than 1,000 riot police were sent into Dongzhou village in the southern province of Guangdong to guard […]
Read MoreA woman at Hanzheng Street market, Wuhan city, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreFrom the The New York Times: When residents of this northern Chinese city hang their clothes out to dry, the black fallout from nearby Handan Iron and Steel often sends them Half a world away, neighbors of ThyssenKrupp’s former steel mill in the Ruhr Valley of Germany once had a similar problem. The white shirts […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Should China be treated differently because it may not be so rich after all? That is one of the central questions raised by new calculations from the World Bank that suggest the Chinese economy may not be as large as previously thought. To be sure, some economists question whether the […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong are holding more than 70 people following a raid on a Bible study meeting of house church pastors involving more than 270 people. Police burst in on the Dec. 7 meeting in the apparent belief that the participants were engaged in proselytizing for […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has held a ceremony to inaugurate its first home-grown commercial aircraft. The ARJ-21, which will be able to seat up to 85 people, will embark upon its maiden flight in March and then go into mass...
Read MoreGoogle as both brand and verb seems to be lost in translation in China, write Janet Ong and John Liu (via Ireland’s Independent): “G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don’t pronounce it right,” Kai-fu Lee, Google’s president for Greater China, said in an interview in Beijing. “Most people call us ‘go go’.”. […]
Read MoreXinhua describes the joint Chinese and Indian military operation “Hand-in-Hand 2007,” taking place in Kunming: [Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang] said that the training aimed to enhance mutual understanding and mutual trust between Chinese and Indian armed forces, strengthen their exchanges in the field of anti-terrorism, deter the “three evil forces” of terrorism, separatism […]
Read MoreIn Time Magazine, Orville Schell profiles the enigma that is Hu Jintao, a runner-up in this year’s Person of the Year contest: Right now, China, the most populous, economically dynamic and politically intriguing nation in the world, is on everybody’s mind. As the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing draw nearer, China’s role as industrial park […]
Read MoreAccording to Time China blog, a final decision has been made on the controversial Xiamen PX project: it’s being moved to an island in Fujian Province. Read Simon Elegant’s post here, which declares it a victory of people power in China. On December 19, People’s Daily issued a prominent, lengthy report on the public forum […]
Read MoreFrom China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch: Professor Stephen Stearns of Yale has spent this Fall at Peking University teaching two undergraduate courses on evolution. The school, also affectionately known as...
Read MoreU.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama has said he would ban imports of Chinese-made toys. The response from the blogosphere was swift. China Law Blog rounds up what some other bloggers are saying on the subject: Barack Obama has called for a BAN on Chinese toy imports into the United States. My first thought upon hearing […]
Read MoreA winter’s day in Beijing, by Luo Shaoyang
Read MoreFrom China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch: Professor Stephen Stearns of Yale has spent this Fall at Peking University teaching two undergraduate courses on evolution. The school, also affectionately known as Beida, is one of the most prestigious universities in China. Today, a letter by him is circulating the school’s BBS and a few other […]
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