From AP via MSNBC: Thousands of villagers in southern China clashed with police during a protest over what they say is inadequate compensation for farmland flooded by a dam project, according to news reports Wednesday. Hong Kong’s Mingpao Newspaper reported that about 10,000 villagers repeatedly engaged police over a four-day period last week when they […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Days after the July 1 celebrations marking 10 years of Chinese sovereignty, the Hong Kong government embarked Wednesday on a formal consultation with the city’s people on the kind of democracy this semi-autonomous corner of China might adopt. The government promised to spend three months listening to the views of Hong […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: The former transport chief of east China’s Zhejiang Province has been sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes. Zhao Zhanqi, 58, took 6.2 million yuan (US$816,000) in bribes from 1994 to 2006, Huzhou Intermediate People’s Court heard.Zhao held the posts of vice director of the provincial development and planning […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China is under “very heavy pressure” to meet targets for reducing the amount of energy used to drive the world’s fastest-growing major economy after missing last year’s goal, a government official said. “Among all provinces in China, only Beijing met the target of cutting energy consumption by 4 percent,” Xie Fuzhan, head of […]
Read MoreFrom Chennai Centre for China Studies website: The consistent claim of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been that the then Central Government was not a party to both the Simla Convention (27 April 1914) and the subsequent separate British-Tibet Treaty (3 July 1914) which fixed the Tibet-India border and as such, the two […]
Read MoreIn a poor remote county, the government gets rich but the poor remain poor. Translated from Outlook (‰∫ÜÊúõ) magazine, via sina.com (photo: a schoolroom with peeling walls and glassy government buildings, from sina.com): In the old days, Jingbian (ÈùñËæπ) County has been known as a poor hinterland in northern Shaanxi Province thanks to ravaging sand […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: After two consecutive years of government price adjustments and controls on real estate, prices are still jumping upward rather than declining. Shenzhen is indisputably the bellwether of this rising tide: housing prices in Shenzhen leaped 50% in the first half of this year. Shenzhen has been going through an unprecedented real estate boom […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief: Since the disassembly of its comprehensive pre-1979 healthcare system, China has sought to shape and reshape the national healthcare system in an attempt to keep pace with rapid social and economic reforms. While reforms have been ongoing for over 10 years, an overhaul of the healthcare system appears to be in the […]
Read MoreFrom Open Democracy: The celebrations for the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the People’s Republic of China were just as grand as for the handover itself in 1997. Hu Jintao and a raft of senior officials all visited Hong Kong. Meticulously-planned variety performances were played out one after another. The mainland Chinese media […]
Read MoreWith China’s top food administrator barely cold in his grave after being executed for gross neglect of duty and Beijing calling for a clean-up of the nation’s toothpaste industry, the International Herald Tribune offers an alternative to the hysteria over tainted Chinese exports: Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too […]
Read MoreThe second phase in China’s legal response to the Shanxi illegal brick kiln'(ȪëÁ†ñÁ™ë) controversy has begun. From AFP via Yahoo! News: Another 26 people accused of forced labour and brutal conditions in brickyards have gone on trial in China amid a scandal that has outraged the nation, state press said Thursday. The defendants are all […]
Read MoreFrom Center for Global Development website: China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa. It has provided aid to these regions since the 1960s in support of its recognition as the legitimate representative of the Chinese people and of the Chinese seat in the United Nations. […]
Read MoreProfessor Shinichi Kitaoka from Tokyo University, former deputy Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, heads the Japanese side of the China-Japan Joint History Research Committee. From Australia Network: … Helen Vatsikopoulos: But how do you do that on something as divisive as the fall of Nanjing? What is your personal opinion? Do you call Nanjing […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: In Beijing’s heated real estate market, 300,000 yuan can buy no more than a 20-square-meter apartment within the second ring road. And, with a bit luck, you might be able to buy a 40-square-meter place inside the fifth ring with the same amount of money. However, you can afford a 100-square meter […]
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