From AP: Chinese and Swiss scientists said Friday the Yangtze River is less polluted than expected, but only because the vast amounts of water dilute farm and industrial waste that still pose a serious threat to animals and plants. Environmentalists warned the findings should not be seen as a clean bill of health for the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he will raise US concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding China’s military programs when he meets with Chinese leaders next week. Gates will visit China, South Korea and Japan in his first trip to northeast Asia as US defense secretary. Asked at a news conference […]
Read MoreAn old woman without children in Jiangxi province , via fengniao.com
Read MoreAfter photos of the elaborate ceremony welcoming Pizhou party secretary Li Lianyu home from the 17th Party Congress spread online, local officials, including Li himself, claimed that the outpouring of support was a “spontaneous” act. In the meantime, discussion and comments about this event in the major online forums have been banned. A netizen on […]
Read MoreFrom The Dissent Magazine: China’s economy is booming like never before and its social fabric is being ripped apart and knit together in novel ways. State-of-the-art sports stadiums, a renovated airport terminal, and a new financial district have been built or are under construction in pre-Olympic Beijing, where there’s even been talk of seeding rain […]
Read MoreThe Independent reports from Xiahe, Gansu Province, where hundreds of Tibetan monks celebrated the awarding of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama: Eyewitnesses, who cannot be named for fear of retribution, told of how the monks met stiff opposition from the police, and the celebrations on the night of 17 October quickly […]
Read MoreFrom T-Salon blog: This year’s Chinese Blogger Conference will take place in Beijing as well as virtually on the internet this coming weekend.
Read MoreNBA.com provides a chart of nicknames that U.S. basketball stars have acquired in China: German Racecar is hot, and he’s working hard to get his team to the playoffs. Meanwhile Little Emperor lords over the East and his team just clinched a postseason spot. Hold on, hold on, what are you talking about? Who is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese are ignoring warnings against trying to cash in on the huge demand for Beijing Olympic tickets and seats for the opening ceremony are on sale on the Internet for up to 150,000 yuan ($20,120). Beijing organizers said last month tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies could be transferred once but “any […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s worst fuel crisis in two years spread to the capital and other inland areas by Wednesday , and one man was killed in a brawl at a petrol station queue, upping pressure on the government to intervene. Diesel shortages in China’s political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight tensions between […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: The task of improving China’s product safety is an uphill battle, but the government should fight using measures it employed to control the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003, a top official said in a speech published Friday. China began a four-month nationwide safety campaign in August, hoping to boost […]
Read MoreFrom GoKunming: The Yunnan government has announced that beginning on January 1 of next year, Yunnan province will eliminate the current hukou registration system that essentially binds rural Yunnanese to their officially registered place of residence – often their place of birth or where their parents are registered. This reform of the system currently in […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A top Yahoo official who has come under fire for the company’s role in the 2004 imprisonment of a dissident in China apologised on Thursday for failing to tell US lawmakers that Yahoo knew more about the case than he initially acknowledged in testimony last year. Michael Callahan, Yahoo’s executive vice president […]
Read MoreThe following was written by CDT’s Jonathan Ansfield for his Biganzi column: Anyone who revels in shaming queue-jumpers in China might take this as a cautionary tale: According to a report in Zhengzhou’s Dahe Bao, a motorist waiting to gas up at a filling station died on Tuesday at the hands of a trucker who […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), released an article in Thursday’s People’s Daily on how to push forward intra-Party democracy and strengthen Party unity. The article says intra-Party democracy is the lifeblood of the CPC. The development course […]
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