From AFP, via Yahoo! News: Chinese President Hu Jintao met industry chiefs in Russia’s oil-rich Tatarstan region on Wednesday during a visit aimed at securing energy supplies and smoothing relations between the neighbouring countries. In Kazan, capital of the mainly Muslim province in central Russia, Hu met heads of heavy industry such as oil producer […]
Read MoreThis is a forced eviction story documented on Defending Rights Net. It happened at Xiaoguwei (小谷围)，Guangzhou city in 2004. These videos are some samples on YouTube about this story.
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: With the Olympics in Beijing just 500 days away, China has begun cleaning up organ trafficking practices. Not only have exports been banned, but with fewer prisoner executions, a major source of organs has dried up. The result has been a kidney shortage in South Korea. [Full text]
Read MoreAP reports on the “nail house” and the implications for the new property law in China: There are thousands of property disputes in China every year, but this one is getting unusual attention, in part because it is regarded as the first major test of a landmark law guaranteeing private-property rights. Images of the house […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog – TIME: My colleague in the Time Beijing bureau Jodi Xu writes: the media frenzy over the Chongqing “nail house” has highlighted similar cases in other parts of China, and may ultimately encourage other homeowners to also dig in their heels. A similar case in Shanghai (see picture below) ended a […]
Read MoreVirtual China points out a new weekly online Chinese magazine by over 100 prominent bloggers, called memedia. From Virtual China’s translation: Memedia describes itself as follows: Coming from the combination of three terms, Me/Meme/Media. Memeda will provide interesting things, important things, diverse things, for us to enjoy together…. This is an open, collaborative project. Each […]
Read MoreDanwei has translated an op-ed by Chang Ping, deputy editor of Southern Metropolis Weekly, about the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television and the real reasons behind their ban on “spoofing” of domestic movies (read the original Chinese version here): What is SARFT for? Most people would think that it is used to criticize […]
Read MoreOpen Magazine in Hong Kong has published the preface, in English and Chinese, of “Zhao Ziyang: Captive Conversations” by Zong Fengming, which chronicles a series of conversations between the two men over ten years while Zhao was under house arrest: Sharing Zhao’s sympathy for the 1989 student movement and deploring his fate, Zong became a […]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: China has found a huge offshore oil field that could become the energy-hungry country’s biggest new oil source in a decade, a state news agency said Wednesday. The scale of the discovery, if confirmed, would be welcome news to Beijing, which is struggling to reduce reliance on oil imports to fuel […]
Read MoreRecently, a poor county on the Yangtze used video to run reconnaissance on the work habits of its officials. In three days of clandestine shooting, a crew of disciplinary agents in Zigui County (Hubei) caught more than 200 colleagues screwing off on the job. Leaders screened the film internally at a county-wide meeting, eliciting the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Over the next two years, China’s economic growth will moderate slightly due to tight macroeconomic controls and the effect of government efforts to change the growth pattern, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced yesterday in its annual publication. The Asian Development Outlook 2007 has laid out GDP predictions for the next two […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via China.ord.cn: The number of drug trafficking cases in China almost doubled last year due to the country’s increased use as a transit point and a rise in domestic consumption, a top anti-smuggling official said yesterday. Border police cracked 355 drug smuggling cases last year, a sharp increase of 91.9 percent over […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Although Hong Kong Chief Donald Tsang (ÊõæËî≠ʨä) easily defeated his opponent according to Sunday’s poll, the election was nothing more than a farce. As previously expected, Tsang, with Beijing’s blessing, comfortably beat pro-democracy lawmaker Alan Leong (Ê¢ÅÂÆ∂ÂÇë) by winning 649 votes from the 800-member election committee, comprised of tycoons and elites. Tsang […]
Read MoreA family of nomads on the Tibetan plateau, by Dan Eckstein
Read MoreYang Zhizhu is listed as “librarian, China Youth Political Academy; Webmaster, “Issues and Isms,” Thanks to David Kelly for the translation. The original Chinese text is here. Since the determination on 19...
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