A classic personal anti-corruption story, one that cost the hero a divorce and eight years of rough life. Translated from Justice Net via sina.com (photo: Pang Jiayu the downed Shaanxi official, via sina.com): Wei Jianjun (È≠èª∫ÂÜõ), in his late 40s, once applied for a deputy director-general opening in Baoji City (ÂÆùÈ∏°Â∏Ç) of Shaanxi Province and […]
Read MoreA relatively low-key Live Earth concert was held in Shanghai today. The concert organizer Wang Xin said that the aim of this concert is to make more Chinese people realise the importance of environmental protection: China held a relatively low-key Live Earth concert attended by about 3000 people at an outdoor venue today in its […]
Read MoreThe Guardian profiles environmental activist Ma Jun, founder of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs: The ex-journalist switched to activism in 1997 after hearing Chinese hydro-engineers boast that the Yellow River was a model of water management, even though it was so over-dammed and exploited that it failed to reach the sea on more […]
Read MoreA woman selling bananas, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreBefore the 2008 election, Taiwan made a move to change its current status. From AP, via myway.com: Taiwan will proceed with a planned referendum on rejoining the United Nations under its own name, an official said Wednesday, despite strong objections to the move from China and the United States. China, which considers Taiwan its territory […]
Read MoreEuropean candle producers argue that cheap candles made in China are damaging the UK market. From the UK Telegraph: Four of Europe’s biggest candle manufacturers are calling on Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, to impose anti-dumping tariffs on cheap Chinese candles that they believe are being dumped on the European market. The group wants […]
Read MoreChina’s State Food and Drug Administration has been placing more inspectors in pharmaceutical factories over the past year. Five drug companies have been closed as a result. From AP via The Washington Post: China’s food and drug watchdog announced it had shut down five drug makers over the last year, including one that made a […]
Read MoreThe New York Times looks at the food and export crisis from the perspective of U.S. industry 100 years ago: Like America’s industrializing economy a century ago, China’s is powered by zealous entrepreneurs who sometimes act like pirates. Both countries suffered epidemics of fatal fakes, and both have had regulators who were too inept, corrupt […]
Read MoreThis long article is from Australian newspaper, The Age: ……The brutal attack is the latest in what labour rights groups say is an escalating pattern of corporate violence against China’s 200 million migrant workers, mostly poor farmers and the unemployed who seek work in the booming urban centres. China’s rapid economic growth has lifted overall […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo.com: China has ordered local authorities to address the root causes of rising public discontent, state media reported on Saturday, in an apparent sign of growing concern over social stability. Local officials have been told they will be denied promotions unless they minimise social unrest in their areas, Xinhua news agency quoted a top […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Forbes.com: Perched on stools, four workers stuff freshly made noodles into plastic bags on the ground floor of the two-story Lin family home. A black-and-white mutt wanders lazily around their feet. Flies circle and land at will. Bags and basins cover almost every inch of a concrete floor that is partly damp, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Eighty-eight people have been killed and 23 are missing as a result of heavy rain which began lashing Sichuan and five other provinces on June 28, a senior spokesman with the country’s Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday. Continuous rain and intermittent hail have triggered floods and landslides in southwest […]
Read MoreThe government still has a lot of power and it now wants to keep college students under easier management or control, by banning living off-campus. Translated from the Beijing News: After cutting some slack on college students living off-campus in 2005, China’s Ministry of Education resumed its unswavering authority, affirming that “in principle living off-campus […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is at the heart of a trade that is pushing some tropical trees towards extinction, environmental groups say. One such is the tropical merbau tree, says Greenpeace. Merbau trees that are mostly felled illegally are being shipped to China, where import rules are lax, the group claims. This timber is then […]
Read MoreWith full names missing, Hunan provincial family planning agency made public a list of cadres, officials and other celebrities who have broken the law of birt control and/or have kept mistresses, translated from Red Net: Problem...
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