From People.com.cn: Blue-green algae has caused water pollution in Chaohu Lake , China’s fifth largest fresh water lake, in east China’s Anhui Province , where the rare whitebait production is on the decline. The output of the whitebait, a small sprat and famous for its fresh and tender meat, has dropped by 500 tons, or […]
Read MoreFrom MIT Center for International Studies website: U.S. China policy in the beginning of the twenty-first century is greater than the sum of diplomatic initiatives and presidential statements. Since China’s rise is reshaping global politics, U.S. policy should be evaluated in this larger context. Washington must not only handle its relationship with China on a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has cancelled an annual German-China human rights dialogue meeting scheduled for December, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, declining to comment on the reasons. She would also not comment on a report in Der Spiegel news magazine that said China scrapped the meeting in retaliation for Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Almost two months have passed since the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced the launching of a trial program allowing mainland residents to directly invest in stocks traded on the security market in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). Dubbed as the “express train to the Hong Kong Exchange”, the […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal, via Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation website: When the Chinese Communist Party’s 17th National Congress opens on Monday, President Hu Jintao is certain to receive another five-year term as Party head. But the real nail-biter isn’t Mr. Hu’s tenure, but who will be positioned to succeed him in 2012. If […]
Read MoreThird of the New York Times’s environmental series this year, and multimedia package along with this installment: Lake Tai, the center of China’s ancient “land of fish and rice,” succumbed this year to floods of industrial and agricultural waste. The outbreak confirmed the claims of a crusading peasant, Wu Lihong, who protested for more than […]
Read MoreChildren row boats in Chaoyang Park, Beijing, by zdzarski.junior
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist blog: For China, the Special Olympics was more than a way to overhaul its image with regard to treatment of people with disabilities , or even an excuse to bring Kenny G yet again . It was also an opportunity to try out logistical schemes planned for the Beijing Olympics. [Full Text]
Read MoreThis is standard practice in most major cities in the developed world. But China is catching up. Translated from Beijing Daily: Partly in order to make the target of 50% sorted trash collection for the city of Beijing by 2008, the Olympics host is promoting the Western-standard practice of handling everyday trash across 3,000 government […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: MC: Li Heping, a lawyer from Beijing Gaobo Longhua law firm, has engaged in quite a few rights-protection legal activities. On Saturday, he was suddenly kidnapped by a group of unknown gangsters. It was reported to the RFA station that the kidnappers took Li Heping to an unidentified building and beat […]
Read MoreTranslated from Southern Daily by CDT: It’s been learned from a working conference on managing major polluters by Shenzhen’s environmental protection bureau that the city plans to standardize the management of major polluters and hopefully it will be able to monitor the key polluting plants in real-time. Participating in the conference were 177 companies of […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph Blogs: …As in other things, China pirated the idea of boot camps from America (or – more frighteningly – did America pirate the idea from China’s re-education through labour camps?) and as with pirated cds the flaws showed up even more quickly than in the genuine articles… Last month, the authorities closed down […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Georgia Popplewell of Global Voices Online has offered a great summary of reactions from the international blogosphere to Friday’s announcement that former US vice president Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The China section was a real gem and we thought […]
Read MoreAnother citizen-journalism piece by Li Xinde, translated from his Yulun Jiandu Net by CDT: A family with two daughters (one pictured above) pitted the grandparents against the young couple and resulted in a cop committing murder, in a case which could well become a national scandal. Daughters are second-class children, still, in many of China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Time: Next summer’s Olympics will showcase a China of glittering skyscrapers and overstuffed store shelves. But the government responsible for this economic miracle continues to imprison political activists, restrict religious freedom, tightly control the media and Internet, and protect its citizens only haphazardly from pollution and unsafe food and consumer products, a congressional panel […]
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