From Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: The 100th birth anniversaries of China’s leaders are traditionally marked with public fanfare, but Lin Biao, who once wielded power second only to Mao Zedong before he died in a mysterious plane crash in 1971, is an exception. Lin’s death shocked and embarrassed China and was not announced […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via NZ Herald: Hundreds of Chinese armed police stormed a banquet and arrested dozens of leaders of two criminal gangs that controlled more than 20 factories in Guangdong. The gangs were so influential in Yangjiang that a Vice-Minister of Public Security had to order the operation, the Beijing News said.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times profiles Edwin Maher, an Australian reporter now reading the news on CCTV: Maher is the first non-Chinese news anchor for state television’s English-language station, CCTV International. He speaks almost no Mandarin, but that’s of little concern to his bosses. He was hired in 2003 as the station introduced a Western face […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called Wednesday for an immediate revaluation of the Chinese currency after Beijing announced moves to tighten monetary policy for the first time in a decade. He said that allowing flexibility of the tightly-controlled yuan was critical to cool the world’s fastest growing economy battling serious inflationary pressures. “A […]
Read MoreA commentary from the Beijing News translated by CDT: From January 1, 2009 onward, pig farming will be banned in all of Dongguan City, a leading manufacturing base in Guangdong Province. A Dongguan official made this announcement at a working conference about cleaning up pollution from the poultry industry. Many counter the government decision, saying […]
Read MoreA reporter for ABC News travelled down the Yangtze and told his story in a news report, blog entries and video: When I told him I had come to China to see how people felt about their rapid economic change and growing power in the world, Yu just shook his head and laughed. China was […]
Read MoreFrom TimesOnline: The Chinese Foreign Minister today denied his country is using the internet to spy on others and said China has itself been a victim of cyber-espionage. …Speaking at a press conference London with the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Mr Yang added: “Actually a number of Chinese agencies have been attacked by hackers.” The […]
Read MoreThe Toronto Star tells the story of Liu Jie, who organized a petition against “re-education through labor” camps, and as a result ended up in a camp herself: Given the ongoing debate about the camps, the timing of Liu Jie’s petition seemed perfect. It was late summer when she and other public-spirited citizens launched the […]
Read MoreSprol.com looks at Shangba, a village of 3,300 in Guangdong: When a closer look is taken, the people of Shangba have been living with a malevolent curse for years. In fact, this town is now known as “Village of Death.” It has earned this name because, over time, cancer has claimed the lives of approximately […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China is to extend a clampdown on new bank lending into next year because of fears that rising inflation could become unmanageable, according to bankers, officials and economists. An annual economic policy meeting of top political and economic leaders that wraps up on Wednesday in Beijing is expected to decide to […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions has announced its annual Housing Rights Violator Awards . The organisation, which fights forced evictions worldwide, gives the awards to countries that have committed the most serious and systematic violations. This year’s awards went to China, Burma and a member of the EU, Slovakia, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Juvenile crime is increasing rapidly in China and becoming a serious problem, Chinese experts have warned. The number of young offenders had more than doubled in 10 years, officials told a Beijing seminar. The offenders were getting younger, forming larger gangs and committing a greater variety of crimes, one academic said. Social […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China plans to shift to a “tight” monetary policy in 2008, signaling the government may raise interest rates further and allow quicker currency appreciation as the economy heads for its fastest expansion in 12 years. The central bank changed its stance from the “moderate tightening” bias of recent months and “prudent” policy of […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China strongly opposes U.S. charges it is unfairly subsidizing the manufacture of its steel pipes and woven sacks for export, the Commerce Ministry said Wednesday, in a further sign of trade friction between the countries. China is “strongly unsatisfied” and “firmly opposed” to a recent U.S. Commerce Department ruling that says China is […]
Read MoreFrom The World-Wire: Wheat grains nearly 5,000 years old found at a Chinese archaeological site two years ago have revealed that western man traveled, brought new agriculture and settled in China much earlier than previously thought, in fact by 2,500 years. Recently published research [1] of ANSTO’s* Professor John Dodson and Professor Xiaoqiang Li, State […]
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