Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO; ‰∏äʵ∑Âêà‰ΩúÁªÑÁªá ) held their largest ever war games yesterday in the Ural Mountains. The games, dubbed “Peace Mission 2007,” included troops from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Via The Hindu: Fighter jets whizzed overhead, airborne troops baled out from transport planes, tanks and armoured personnel carriers […]
Read MoreTwo weeks after the dramatic rescue of 69 workers from a flooded mine in Henan Province, more than twice that number have been trapped under similar circumstances in a coal mine in Shandong. From the Washington Post: Zhang Dekuan, a senior Shandong province official, told the agency that 756 miners were working in the shaft […]
Read MorePeking Opera performers offstage in Beijing. Photo by Jan Zdzarski Junior via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Chinese tourists have recently discovered Europe as a destination. SPIEGEL traveled with a group who covered 11 countries in 14 days by bus, snapping the sights and buying up brand names. But for some the Old World was a disappointment, full of lazy Italians and slovenly French. [Full text] [Image from Der […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on the driving ban currently in effect in Beijing as a test run for the Olympics: The four-day experiment meant half of the 3 million cars registered to drive in Beijing were supposed to stay parked. The ban dramatised the determination of the Chinese Government to do whatever is necessary to […]
Read MoreFrom AP via www.inquirer.net: Philippine immigration agents arrested 91 Chinese construction workers caught working illegally within a former US air base north of Manila , officials said Friday. They were rounded up during a raid Thursday at the construction site of the Fontana Leisure and Development Corp. inside the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A Chinese TV talent programme has been banned by the state’s broadcasting watchdog for being “vulgar”. The First Heartthrob (Á¨¨‰∏Äʨ°ÂøÉÂä® ), a Pop Idol-style competition, was accused of catering to “the low-grade interests of a minority” and cancelled with immediate effect. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft) added that […]
Read MoreFrom AP via SignOnSanDiego.com: The government slammed Chinese instant noodle makers Friday as being partly to blame for a surge in inflation, saying they illegally colluded to boost prices by up to 40 percent in a scheme that has prompted public outcry. The report came amid a nationwide probe into whether price-fixing or hoarding by […]
Read MoreAsia Sentinel tells the story of a senior official in Jinan who conspired with a local police officer to murder his mistress, who had blackmailed him: It was the most dramatic illustration of how mistresses have become a part of China’s corruption story. It is so serious that, on July 8, the Supreme People’s Court […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: China has ordered its media to report only positive news and imprisoned a pro-democracy dissident amid a clampdown on dissent ahead of the most important meeting of the Communist party in five years. Media controls have been tightened, Aids activists detained and NGOs shut down as the president, Hu Jintao, prepares for […]
Read MoreReuters reports that Chinese journalists covering a recent bridge collapse in Hunan were beaten by “local thugs.” Another report (in Chinese) on overseas news website Duowei.com revealed that those “thugs” are local Director of Agriculture Bureau and his staff. From Reuters: Chinese journalists probing a bridge collapse that killed dozens of people said they were […]
Read MoreIn a long and intriguing essay in this past week’s Economic Observer (ÁªèʵéËßÇÂØüÊä•), former Party newspaper man Zhou Ruijin (Âë®ÁëûÈáë) reminisces about his role in reinvigorating Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms during the down years after June 4th. As deputy chief ed of the Liberation Daily (ËߣÊîæÊó•Êä•), Zhou was the author behind four breakthrough editorials that […]
Read MoreA construction worker in Beijing takes a break, by zdzarski.junior
Read MoreFrom McClatchy Newspapers: Wary of exposing China’s flaws to the news media’s glare before next year’s Olympic Games, authorities are cracking down on groups that help AIDS victims and orphans, shuttering their offices and banning meetings and other gatherings. In one case, an activist in Henan province, where the nation’s AIDS crisis hit early, said […]
Read MoreChina’s food safety has been a world-wide discussion. Gaoming Jiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany, suggests a solution to solve the problem: “if we use market forces, so that the consumption of the rich actually benefits the poor, we can not only protect the environment but also realise social […]
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