China Ex-Food and Drug Chief Executed – Alexa Olesen

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 […]

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Campaign Begins to Clean Yangtze – Jamil Anderlini and Richard McGregor

From 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 […]

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China Jails 2 Church Leaders – AP

From 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 […]

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Switzerland Grants China Market-economy Status – DPA

From 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 […]

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Most Chinese Shy Away from Socializing with Strangers – Xinhua

From 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 […]

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China to Improve Supervision of Reporters – Winny Wang

From 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 […]

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Disney’s ‘Gourd’ makes $1M in China – Min Lee

From 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 […]

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Chanches of Buying Counterfeit Water in Beijng 1 in 2 – Beijing Times

Beijing 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 […]

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The Cleanest Place on Earth – and the Dirtiest – Angela Palmer

Photographer 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 […]

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Top-Secret Chinese Sub Surfaces On Internet Maps – Eric Rosenberg

“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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