From the Times of India: Chinese banks including the central bank have begun to express themselves against political inteference by the Communist Party officials in the normal banking acvities. A senior official of the People’s Bank of China has publicly called for reforms in the system of monitoring state-owned banks by agencies of the party […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: China issued guidelines Tuesday restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government’s latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical. Little information about China’s lucrative transplant business is publicly available. One human rights activist said there is fierce competition among hospitals to […]
Read MoreThe Canadian Globe and Mail just had this article about Beijing’s drug-safety scandal, reported from Harbin, China: Liu Sichen was a normal little girl in a Chinese kindergarten. She played the piano and danced and painted. She dreamed of being a star on television. From her small home by the railway tracks, she gazed up […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: As a general rule the atmosphere for Chinese media grows more restrictive in the run-up to key political sessions. With China’s crucial 17th Party Congress just two months away (specific dates yet undetermined), propaganda authorities are readying themselves to keep a tight grip on public opinion. The tools at their disposal: […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Many Chinese colleges and universities are owed millions of yuan because students are unable to, or choose not to, pay back tuition loans, the Ministry of Education said on Monday. “We have found that many universities and colleges have several million yuan of defaulted tuition fees, some have nearly a billion,” Cui Bangyan, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via ABC News: Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children’s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday. China’s dismal health and safety record both within and outside its borders has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Sanmao(‰∏âÊØõ), the wandering orphan created by cartoonist Zhang Leping in the 1930s, has been adapted for the screen many times over the years. The latest adaptation, a live-action movie, is a Sino-Belgian co-production; some fans are worried about the prospect of Sanmao being “updated” and deprived of his Chineseness. Here’s a recent article […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times reveals China’s push for environmental transparency only goes so far: Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”. The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministries over several years, found […]
Read MoreAs China celebrates the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s hand-over, Xinhua announces the People’s Liberation Army is undergoing a sartorial makeover. From UPI: China’s military has ditched its baggy and sometimes mismatched uniforms in favor of a snazzy new look that includes rakish berets… The upgraded uniforms, dubbed “07 Style” allow the enlisted personnel to […]
Read MoreThe New York Times wades into the US-China trade dispute over tainted seafood with a report from an eel factory in Guangzhou’s Taishan region. For those who’ve missed the story so far, the FDA recently banned certain Chinese seafood imports on account of high levels of carcinogens and antibiotics: Here in the Pearl River Delta […]
Read MoreRiots broke out in Chongqing last week after a middle school student was stabbed to death by a classmate and his family protested his killing. Xinhua and Reuters have reported on this incident. A video, taken on a cell phone, is on YouTube, courtesy of Radio Free Asia.
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: A selection of photos taken 10 years ago about Peking Opera is now stirring a debate on the Internet. In these six black and white pictures, the female characters are naked. Every photo’s theme is a well-known story of Peking Opera, but the pictures show the male characters in costume and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s biggest oil company CNPC has reached a deal with Sudan to search for oil and gas in the north of the country on the coast of the Red Sea. The exploration will be carried out jointly with the Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina. China has been under pressure […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Three decades ago when Hong Kong was still under British rule, English and Cantonese were the most popular languages in the territory. It was during that time that Cheung Dan, a Beijing linguistic scholar, established a Mandarin school there, vowing to teach Hong Kong people Mandarin….[Full Text]
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