An 8-year Fight to Unseat Shaanxi Official – via Sina.com

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 […]

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Shanghai Hosts Low-key Live Earth Concert – SMH

A 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 […]

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Taiwan to Go Ahead With UN Referendum – Peter Enav

Before 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 […]

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Europe Can’t Hold a Candle to China – James Hall

European 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 […]

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China Shuttered 5 Drug Makers in 1 Year – AP

China’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 […]

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Can China Reform Itself? – Joseph Kahn

The 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 […]

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Chinese Capitalism Reveals Dark Side – Mary-Anne Toy

This 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 […]

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China Tells Local Authorities to Address Social Instability – AFP

From 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 […]

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Food Crisis Begins at Mom-And-Pop Level – Audra Ang

From 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, […]

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Devastation Reigns as Storms Hit Six Provinces – Xinhua

From 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 […]

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Ministry Forbids College Students Living Off-campus – The Beijing News

The 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 […]

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China Trade Threatens Tropical Trees – Michael Bristow

From 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 […]

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