Bankrupt Ant Farmers Prepare to Protest – John Kennedy
From Global Voices Online: Shenyang was mobbed today with furious ex-ant farmers, former employees of Yilishen, a media darling and one of China’s most well-known brands in the health supplement market, as the company has just closed, taking the huge amounts its peasant-class employees had invested with it. The city’s ant farming industry is no […]
Read MoreDeadly Landslide Near China Dam – BBC News
From BBC News: A landslide has killed one worker and left two missing near China’s Three Gorges dam , state media has reported. The accident happened in Badong County, a hilly area next to the dam’s 660km (410 mile) reservoir, where the group were working on a railway tunnel.The cause of the accident was not […]
Read MoreChina Group Wins Afghan Copper Rights – Jon Boone and Geoff Dyer
From The Financial Times: A state-owned Chinese company has won the right to develop a large copper deposit in Afghanistan after agreeing to invest $3bn (‚Ǩ2.02bn, ¬£1.45bn) in the project, the Afghan mines minister announced on Tuesday. The deal is the largest foreign investment in Afghanistan’s history and will give China Metallurgical Group (MCC) the […]
Read MoreSouthern Metropolis’ Headline and “Edge Ball”
Here is the front page of the Guangdong based Southern Metropolis Daily, Nov. 16, 2007. The headline reads: “Authoritarian Rule and Dictatorship Will Certainly Fail ”
Read MoreBold Adviser Dares China to Change – Benjamin Kang Lim
From The Reuters, via theage.com.au: A provincial Chinese government adviser has urged Communist Party leaders to lift a ban on new political parties, halt suppression of a spiritual sect and let exiled dissidents return home. In a bold move by an establishment figure, Wang Zhaojun made his requests in an open letter to President Hu […]
Read MoreChina to Bar Polluters from Stock Market – AP
From AP, a new strategy to combat industrial pollution: China will bar companies that violate pollution rules from raising money through the stock market, a state newspaper said Wednesday, in a new effort to end widespread defiance of environmental standards. The government has been stepping up environmental enforcement following three decades of rapid growth that […]
Read MoreChina Needs Iron – Robert M. Miller
Forbes writes about the growing competition between China and Japan over iron ore: Both nations have an acute need for the product. Indeed, it is China’s enormous appetite for iron ore (about 500 million tons a year or more) that has been the major factor behind the recent enormous price increases and profits in the […]
Read MoreChina Vows to Step Up Military Ties With Neighbors (Update1) – Allen T. Cheng
Is China going to lead the cooperation with Asean since it plays a solo role after dropping India and Australia out of the community? From Bloomberg: China promised to resolve all disputes over claims for oil and gas in the South China Sea with its Southeast Asian neighbors and to strengthen military ties as part […]
Read MoreNew Plan to Protect Gorges Dam Area – Shanghai Daily
From Shanghai Daily: In the wake of controversy over the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, China has pledged to take more measures to protect the environment in the area. The new measures, announced by the office of the Three Gorges Project Committee of the State Council yesterday, consist of seven projects designed to address […]
Read MoreVideo: China’s Blood Sellers – Current.com
Angela Sun, a Current journalist, went to Hebei to investigate blood selling among the villagers which has caused HIV/AIDS to spread in that area. [Original video here]
Read More3000 People Attend the Funeral of a Local Official’s Mother – Southern Metropolis News
Photo and story from Southern Metropolis News, summarized and translated by CDT: One glorious funeral lasted two hours in Jiazi County, Lufeng City of Guangdong. It was for the mother of the local highway bureau chief, Mr Xie. About 3000 people attended the funeral and made a 1000-meter-long line, which blocked two main streets. Firecrackers […]
Read MoreDalai Lama ‘May Pick Successor’ – BBC
Dalai Lama says that he could possibly name his own successor while he is alive, instead of accepting a Chinese-picked one, via BBC News: Usually, following the death of a Dalai Lama, senior Tibetan Buddhist officials, guided by dreams and signs, identify a young child to succeed him. But the Dalai Lama said he feared […]
Read MoreAmerican Imports, Chinese Deaths – Loretta Tofani
Please click here to read the 7-part series “American Imports, Chinese Deaths” – A Salt Lake Tribune Special Report: The patients arrive every day in Chinese hospitals with disabling and fatal diseases, acquired while making products for America. On the sixth floor of the Guangzhou Occupational Disease and Prevention Hospital, Wei Chaihua, 44, sits on […]
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