From AP, via The Guardian: China on Tuesday executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety. Zheng Xiaoyu’s execution was confirmed by State Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Yan Jianyang at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A Chinese campaign to close polluting factories on the Yangtze River appears to be yielding results after the names of the country’s worst water polluters were published and they were ordered to stop production or shut permanently. Three factories in eastern Anhui province , including the largest in the county seat of […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post writes about author Yan Lianke and the art of literary censorship in China: China has come a long way from the days of Mao Zedong, when singing the praises of socialism was virtually the only form of art allowed by the party. But the principle has remained the same. The party still […]
Read MoreAlthough the Chinese government has promised greater access to foreign journalists covering the Olympics, domestic journalists may not share the same fate. This cartoon is by Mick Stern at the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: Two ministers in China’s unrecognized Protestant church have been sentenced to one year each in a labor camp on charges of using an “evil cult” to obstruct the law, a U.S. monitoring group said Monday. The two men were detained on June 15 along with four other church leaders during a worship […]
Read MoreFrom Earthtimes.org: Switzerland has granted China market-economy status on Monday, the third European country to do so, according to the Ministry of Trade. The agreement was signed on Sunday in Beijing by Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and the Swiss Economy Minister Doris Leuthard. Both sides also agreed to evaluate the feasibility of setting up […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Most Chinese people are reluctant to strike up a conversation with strangers and get to know them, according to a survey conducted by the Horizon Group, a non-governmental consultancy in Beijing. …The survey indicates that family and relatives are still the major social resource for Chinese people. Valuable social resources outside the family […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China’s correspondent bureaus must register reporters with local news watchdogs amid the country’s move to tighten management of the media, Xinhua news agency reported today. Registration will include more personal information, including the reporter’s name, age, title, political status, phone number and certificate number, said Li Dongdong, vice director of the General […]
Read MoreThe following interview was conducted on July 6 by Edward Cody. Transcript prepared by the Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan): Q1. I understand that you were just at a tea party with some of your local constituents, and it occurred to me that we were just talking with Mr. Liu […]
Read MoreBBC News website carried a series of photos which illustrate rural people’s real life: “Despite China’s economic boom, poverty and hardship remain a way of life in the countryside.” Click HERE to see
Read MoreFrom Mercurynews.com: The Walt Disney Co.’s first non-Hollywood movie made more than US$1 million (euro740,000) at Chinese box offices in its first week, but “The Secret of the Magic Gourd,” lagged far behind two of this year’s biggest American releases, the company said Monday. Disney’s first major venture into localized Chinese content, made more than […]
Read MoreBeijing is facing a second sort of water crisis, not as deadly as its dwindling ground water supplies but disturbing nonetheless. Translated from Beijing Times via sina.com (Photo Quiz: Which is water is bottled, from the tap, and fake? Answer at the end of story): Beijing’s bottled water professionals recently spilled a major secret: Half […]
Read MorePhotographer Angela Palmer once had a dream in which she visited the most polluted and the cleanest cities on earth wearing white outfits which were then exhibited side by side. Determined to make the experience reality, she traveled to Linfen, China and Cape Grim, Tasmania, and writes about the experience in the Guardian: Research into […]
Read More“Snapped the Google image showing the secret sub.” From smh.com.au: The first publicly available pictures have emerged of China’s new Jin-class nuclear-powered submarine, which is capable of firing intercontinental ballistic missiles against the US. Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons analyst for the Federation of American Scientists, spotted the new submarine while reviewing photos of north-eastern […]
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