John Kennedy at Global Voices also writes about the potentially deadly chemical plant now under construction in Xiamen: In November last year, construction began on a chemical plant in Haicang district, located on Xiamen island in the capital of Southwestern China’s Fujian province, slated to produce the solvent toluene, terephthalic acid, benzene and, for example, […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth translated an interesting post from Chai Jing’s blog. “Chai Jing is a famous CCTV investigative reporter, but you have to decide whether this blog post is factual or fictional. If it is factual, then it is even entertaining; even if it is fictional, how much truth is in it?” – ESWN I was out […]
Read MoreFrom ConsumerAffairs.com: China says it is investigating claims that a Chinese company exported the melamine-tainted wheat gluten linked to the illnesses and deaths of scores of pets in the United States. It the first time China has responded to the U.S. ban on wheat gluten imported from the Chinese company Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development […]
Read MoreMarch in the lunar calendar is good season for kites flying. On April 6, 2007 there was the National Kite-flying Championship held in Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. View the photos from Xinhua:
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: WHEN Qiu Xiaolong reflects on his life, the path has an air almost of inevitability. The arc includes an inquisitive childhood in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution; studying poetry in Beijing, where he translated the complete works of T. S. Eliot; traveling in the early days of d√©tente to the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: A U.S. State Department report that criticized China’s human rights record is without basis and irresponsible, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin...
Read MoreFrom AP via ABC13.com: Tears, wild hair and unhealthy songs are banned when China’s latest version of “American Idol” goes on the air next month. “No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste,” the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday in a notice to the producers of “Happy Boys Voice,” according to the […]
Read MoreFrom YouTube: China’s coal-rich Shanxi province is one of the most polluted areas on earth. “We used to lie on our backs and watch the stars,” said one resident. They are not so visible nowadays. This is our problem too. Localised pollution affects the whole world. We all breath the same air.
Read MoreFrom The Shanxi Daily, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: In the afternoon of March 26, a mining disaster took place at the Shankeng mine in Yangjiazhuang town, Fenyang city, Shanxi province. At noon on March 28, a telephone call was made to the Shanxi Daily hotline: “On March 26, there was an incident at a coal mine […]
Read MoreAnother major assault on the press by people with means, and wealth. EastSouthWestNorth blog has translated reports from Apple daily and Netease (photo: an illustration of the beating scene by Apple Daily): CCTV reporter Wang Liping said that their team of three persons were gathering news in Zhugezhuang town, Changli county, Qinhuangdao city yesterday morning […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (photo: seized counterfeit Nike shoes by Tianjin Customs, via customs.gov.cn): After months of prodding China to crack down on pirated copies of American movies, music and software, the Bush administration appears ready to escalate the dispute into a legal confrontation. In recent weeks, administration officials have strongly hinted that they […]
Read MoreOn March 26, 2007, a mass mobilization meeting was held at Chikan district, Zhanjiang city, Guangdong province. After the mass meeting, city security force (Chengguan) marched on the streets. The red slogan reads: “Constructing Harmonious Society.” From Boxun.com:
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: SHANGHAI, China: China’s state-affiliated labor union said Friday it expects U.S. fast-food companies McDonald’s and KFC to set up branches in some outlets in southern China within this year. Hang Yuan, a spokeswoman for the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, said the group has been discussing the issue of setting […]
Read MoreFrom the China Post: Chinese Christians are preparing to celebrate Easter amid a nationwide religious renaissance led by an army of young people seeking faith in the modern world, religious leaders and academics said. Although young Chinese are largely flocking to traditional religions such as Buddhism and Taoism, many are also turning to Christianity in […]
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