From Associated Press via iwon.com: China is cracking down on cable television operators who offer unauthorized foreign satellite broadcasts ” the communist government’s latest bid to maintain its monopoly on information, a newspaper reported Saturday. China’s TV regulator last month ordered local authorities to root out operators that provide Chinese homes with foreign channels, which […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: The transformation of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics is emerging as perhaps the most ambitious remake of any major world capital in history, short of the postwar reconstructions. The silhouettes of the spectacular new stadium and swimming center are already familiar worldwide, but they are set in a rebuilt urban core that startles […]
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Read MoreReports concerning forced labor at brick kilns in Shanxi province have disappeared from the Western media in recent weeks, but the case is not yet resolved. As Danwei reports, journalists and netizens in China are helping to track down people still missing who are suspected of having been forced to work in the kilns. From […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has blacklisted 13 academicians for fraud, sources with the foundation said Friday. This is the NSFC’s fourth round of “naming and shaming” of scholarly fraudsters since 2005. The fraudulent practices included unattributed quotes, plagiarism, falsifying signatures, fabricating personal information and scientific data and violating application […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The 22-year-old was a freelance prostitute. Henna-haired, eyebrows painted and dressed no differently than a college student, she moved from beauty salon to beauty salon, taking calls on her mobile phone from salon managers when they couldn’t find enough girls for all their customers. She said she wasn’t as well paid […]
Read MoreFrom Time: The dragon’s wing has twitched. A tiny shift in China’s Africa policy might just lead to peace in Darfur. China is Sudan’s largest trading partner, buying 65% of its oil. Until now Beijing has protected Khartoum from the Western world, which was crying genocide and demanding intervention and sanctions. Now China has helped […]
Read MoreChina’s National Population and Family Planning Commission has just released a list of new slogans that are recommended for local branches to use. This is a recent effort of the agency to clean up out-dated slogans used across the country, some of which may contain barbaric connotations or at least run against the “putting people […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The former political secretary to a member of China’s politburo has been detained in a widening probe over misuse of Shanghai’s pension funds, elevating the scandal for the first time into the inner-circle of the Chinese leadership. The detention of Wang Weigong, reported by a Chinese financial magazine on Friday, comes […]
Read MoreDr. David Kelly translated following essay from overseas Chinese political commentator Liang Jing, the Chinese text is here: Last week, the Communist Party announced the expulsion of Chen Liangyu from Party and public posts, and handed him over to the processes of law. This development is understood by all, both domestically and abroad, in terms […]
Read MoreFrom Truehugger.com: While the notion that environmental protection can be good for business certainly hasn’t gone mainstream in capitalist China, this year the country has made some bold attempts to make pollution bad for business. In lieu of national policies backed up by a strong legal system — or just good ol’ fashioned brute force […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Yahoo.com: Nearly eight out of 10 Chinese coastal city sewers discharged excessive amounts of pollutants into the sea in the first six months of the year, state media said on Saturday. Most of the outlets were “improperly arranged”, Xinhua news agency said, with 43 percent in tourist, sea farming and other reserved […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The Co-operative Group , Britain’s biggest mutual retailer, on Friday became the first UK business to manufacture its own prescription drugs in China as part of a joint venture with a leading pharmaceutical company. The venture marks the first time that a British retailer has established its own drugs manufacturing business. Chemists, […]
Read MoreThanks to Dr. David Kelly for following translation of Liang Jing’s political commentary. The original Chinese version is here. On May 30, the CPC Discipline and Inspection Commission (CDIC) issued “CDIC Regulations strictly prohibiting the use of one’s position to gain improper profits.” Imposing eight prohibitions on CPC members and cadres, it further stated: “leniency […]
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