Reuters reports on U.S. Congressional testimony by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer: China’s government is forcibly moving young women of the ethnic Uighur minority from their homes in Xinjiang to factories in eastern China, a Uighur activist told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. Rebiya Kadeer, jailed for more than five years for championing the rights of […]
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Read MoreJohn Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, and a professor of communications at Brigham Young University, published following essay on The Christian Science Monitor: China sees the 2008 Olympics as an opportunity to present a positive and smiling image to the outside world. (It actually has launched an international photo competition for children with […]
Read MoreAt a New York opening of the film Nanking, Wendi Murdoch, wife of media mogul Rupert, expressed her views on China today. From the New York Observer: Mega-mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Wendi (n√©e Deng), is very proud of the progress her native China has made over the past few decades. “Economically, everybody is doing well; […]
Read MoreReuters and AP (via the International Herald Tribune) report on the fuel shortage currently hitting areas of China: The worst Chinese fuel crisis in two years spread to the capital and other inland areas Wednesday, even as the country’s top refiner pledged to guarantee supplies to a market crippled by the gap between state-set pump […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Inquirer.net: Hundreds of people making stuffed toys for The Walt Disney Co. at a factory in southern China are working up to 16 hours a day with only a few days off a month, a Hong Kong-based labor activist group said Wednesday. “During the peak season, before Christmas, workers at the factory […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has approved new legislation aimed at improving national standards in food production. The move is an attempt to calm international concern after a string of food-related scandals. New laws will standardise food production and clamp down on illegal activity in the industry. World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan backed the move […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: Six villagers’ representatives from Wanglou village, Funing County in the eastern Chinse province of Jiangsu were detained on the night of Oct. 28 over a land compensation dispute, sources told RFA’s Cantonese service(ZH). The wife of one detained man, Yang Jiaren, said: “About 7 or 8 policemen intruded into our house […]
Read MoreAmid reports of poisonous toys and tainted food products, the New York Times has a lengthy report on unregulated and often deadly drugs entering the world market from China: Pharmaceutical ingredients exported from China are often made by chemical companies that are neither certified nor inspected by Chinese drug regulators, The New York Times has […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: An official in one of China’s southern economic hubs has gone on trial for misusing around 100 million dollars of the city’s pension funds, state press reported Wednesday. Liu Yuhong (ÂàòÈõ®ÂÆè), who went on trial on Tuesday, is one of at least 18 people to face criminal charges in Guangzhou, the capital of […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Real estate agent Xu Jianzhong is wired — but in a way that few in the e-mail addicted, BlackBerry-packing West would understand. The 20-year-old from China’s rural Henan province doesn’t own a computer. He visits the local Internet cafe to check his e-mail every couple of weeks. That’s not to say […]
Read MoreFrom the China in Transition blog: There are signs that public discussions on the Internet in China have been put under tighter control lately. Bullog.cn, a blog site featuring intellectuals’ discussion over political, society and cultural topics, is suspended. Currently on its homepage is nothing but one notice that reads: “Bullog is going through additional […]
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Olympics Countdown Sign at Tiananmen Square, via technologyaddison
From Forbes.com, via ABC News: As China continues its meteoric rise, life — and commerce — in America have become saturated with three words: “Made in China.” The abundance of low-cost goods has made life less expensive, but as some critics argue, it has drained the country of factory jobs, as companies shutter plants and […]
Read MorePlease click to watch this four-part BBC series: China from the Inside, from 2006, via video.google.com: * Power and the People * Women of the Country * Shifting Nature * Freedom and Justice
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