From Haaretz – Israel News: This is a story about a country that (nearly) everyone recognizes de facto and whose existence (again, nearly) everyone denies de jure; a country that is battling a cynical world controlled by a regime of international hypocrisy, where Realpolitik defeats the values of justice and morality. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: By the side of a busy road in Shanghai‘s financial district, Zhao Ping Hua is mixing cement. Twenty years of a booming China have meant 20 years of back-breaking work for him. He is a labourer on the city’s new metro system, and one of the millions of farmers who leave the […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times Blog: At about 10 a.m. on June 19, 2003, in the western Chinese city of Wuwei, a man named Ma Guoxing was walking across town, intent on a pending business appointment. But as he neared the Wei’an Health Center, he noticed a crowd of people at the front gate, and he […]
Read MoreRecently, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published the living standards of so-called white collar workers [UPDATE Nov. 7: CASS is denying that they have published this report so it is now unclear where it originated.] From MSN Space translated by CDT: Evaluating the consumer price index, living expenses, transportation costs, degree of modernization and […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang testified to lawmakers on Tuesday that the company has been “open and forthcoming” about its role in a Chinese government investigation that led in 2005 to a journalist’s imprisonment. “We have answered every question, provided every requested piece of information and worked with you in good faith,” […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Senior U.S. and Chinese defense officials traded compliments at the start of a two-day summit here, but the two countries remained divided on issues such the future of Iran’s nuclear program. During closed-door meetings with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, high-ranking Chinese officials reacted coolly to U.S. calls for tougher […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A five-year campaign to improve China’s notoriously deadly industrial safety record is seeing results, with accidental deaths falling by 13.9 percent in the first ten months of this year, the country’s top safety official said Monday. Since the institution of the Safety Production Law in 2003, the number of accidental deaths has fallen […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s new HIV/AIDs cases have accelerated to more than 3,000 a month, with the proportion of cases caused by sexual transmission increasing, state media said on Tuesday. China recorded 3,223 new infections per month on average between January and October, the official China Daily said on Tuesday, compared with 3,090 cases a month […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A Chinese province is likely to join a planned libel suit against US giant Mattel, accusing the toy maker of harming the region’s reputation, state press said Tuesday. The government of Guangdong province is considering the suit after Mattel issued a safety recall on more than 21 million Chinese-made toys this summer, but […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Nanjing’s Weekend magazine: While Chinese are figuring out whether the photos by a farmer photographer of a South China tiger are real or not, China is not yet ready to announce that the species is extinct in the country even though some international organizations have said so. But the consensus seems […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Southern Weekend: In January this year, Hangzhou (Êù≠Â∑û)’s tallest building went down, in an explosion on the West Lake (Ë•øÊπñ). Standing at 72 meters, the Zhejiang University property was already way beyond the cap of 25 meters for lakeside areas. But it was not the end of the controversy. The site […]
Read MoreThis film took a very long time (more than a year) to produce. And it took not only a great deal of hard work, but also a lot of sadness to overcome to struggle to the finish line (for now). First I produced a multimedia package on this issue, available at michaelzhao.net/eDump. Then my colleagues […]
Read MoreAn oil field in Indonesia operated by PetroChina, by Kemas Yunus Antonius
Read MoreThe New York Times gives an update on the legal case of environmental activist Wu Lihong: A court in Wuxi, in eastern Jiangsu Province, upheld the conviction of Wu Lihong, who became well known around China for seeking to prevent chemical companies from dumping untreated waste in Lake Tai, China’s third-largest freshwater lake. The ruling […]
Read MoreChina has announced that it will use a lottery system to sell the new batch of Olympic tickets, from BBC News: The move follows the breakdown of Beijing’s first-come, first-served ticketing website last week. The site was unable to cope with the enormous demand for tickets. Chinese buyers will be able to register for the […]
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