From RFA Unplugged blog: Yahoo’s chief executive Jerry Yang and executive vice president Michael Callahan faced a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in Washington yesterday over providing misleading information to Congress last year as part of an investigation into the company’s role in disclosing former journalist and cyberdissident Shi Tao’s identity to Chinese authorities. […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China should revalue the renminbi to boost domestic demand, remove obstacles to banking reform and cool an overheating heavy industry sector, Peter Mandelson, the European Union ‘s trade commissioner, said on Thursday. In a speech in Washington that highlighted the EU’s growing concern over China’s currency management and commercial practices, Mr […]
Read MoreFrom CNSnews.com: China marked “Journalists Day” Thursday with state-run media hailing a new era of increasing press freedom in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games , but Western rights groups are largely unimpressed. In an unusually candid report, the official Xinhua news agency carried comments from a Chinese journalism professor describing how the […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China, one of the world’s leading producers of greenhouse gases, launched a government fund Friday to channel money from the sale of emission-reduction credits into environmental projects. China has resisted adopting emission reductions under international agreements but says it is committed to curbing climate change. The new fund is to receive a portion […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The government has warned domestic and overseas companies against trying to bypass the new Labor Contract Law by forcing employees close to completing a decade in service to quit and rejoin. The All China Federation of Trade Unions knows about such moves and has begun intervening to pre-empt them, an official surnamed […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said his successor Angela Merkel committed a mistake in meeting Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, China’s state media said Friday. “My predecessors and I refused to meet with the Dalai Lama… and I hope the incumbent government will adhere to it, too,” Schroeder told a […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: Outraged Beijing Olympic organizers sought Thursday to refute allegations of religious intolerance, saying Bibles and other religious items for personal use are welcome at next year’s Beijing Olympics. That latitude, however, does not extend to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, banned eight years ago as an “evil cult” and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Twenty-nine miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak in southwest China’s Guizhou Province and six others are missing, state media reported on Friday. The gas leak at Qunli Coal Mine in Nayong County occurred on Thursday afternoon when 86 miners were working in the shaft, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted […]
Read MoreA commentary translated by CDT from Southern Metropolis Daily: There have been many “nailhouses” making headlines in China lately. But this one is different, and it seems to defy any power in Shenzhen, including the...
Read MoreRoutine traffic in Beijing, from usabaseballstadium.org.
Read MoreFrom AFP: China has released new rules to prohibit or limit foreign investment in the latest tightening move that signals a major overhaul in outlook of the nation’s booming but flawed economic model. In a wide-ranging directive published late Wednesday, China’s key economic developmental agency laid out a comprehensive list that at its root highlights […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Which company has committed the greater evil? Yahoo Inc. helped send a reporter to prison by revealing his identity to the Chinese government. Cisco Systems Inc. helps send thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated Internet surveillance technology to China. If bad press is to be the judge, the […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from the Beijing Times: Rumors have it that Beijingers will probably soon drink a mixture of first-hand tap water with recycled water. Yesterday, Beijing Water Bureau’s deputy director Cheng Jing (Á®ãÈùô) dismissed the rumors, which potentially could have created panic. “Beijing’s water recycling technology has reached world class standards,” the official said. […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Xin Kuai Bao (Êñ∞Âø´Êä•): A foreign affairs spokesperson for the National Space Administration (ÂõΩÂÆ∂Ëà™Â§©Â±Ä) said that China is going to launch twin Mars explorers on a Russian-made rocket in 2009. The twin crafts will be developed and produced by China and Russia. China’s will do the same job as its moon […]
Read MoreYue Minjun’s canvas painting “Execution” shone at Sotheby’s in London in October because of its price of $5.9 million. The painting is based on Tiananmen in 1989. From Artfact.com via Forbes: …Since the early 1990s, Minjun’s works, both paintings and sculpture, have featured figures wearing the same facial expression–a wide, oddly enigmatic smile. The eerie, […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
