From Reuters: A coal mine flood in central China which managers tried to cover up killed 15 people, less than a week after 21 miners died in another unreported accident, the official Xinhua agency said. The flooding in Shangjiwu mine, in Henan province, started late on Thursday when 52 people were thought to be underground. […]
Read MoreVisitors looking at water gushing from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River, via Mit
Read MoreDanwei has translated a lengthy article from Southern People Weekly about CPPCC member Yu Quanyu. From Danwei’s introduction: The most recent issue of Southern People Weekly (the one with Wu Hongfei’s cover interview with Wang Shuo) contains a story/interview with Yu Quanyu, the CPPCC member who proposed a law criminalizing seditious speech at this year’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Intelligence Summit Blog: Venezuela said on Saturday it was working on a raft of oil deals with China, giving impetus to President Hugo Chavez’s attempts to break his country’s dependence on oil exports to the United States. The China National Petroleum Corp. will look to develop heavy crude oil production in […]
Read MoreIn spite of the government media blackout, the “nailhouse” story continues online. Some bloggers such as QianTuWuLiang are posting following quotes from Mao in cyberspace. The translation is on the Reading China blog: Mao is always quoted for critique of Chinese government.A few years ago, there was an airport to be built in a place […]
Read MoreFrom Chinese Law Prof Blog: The Chinese firm of Lehman, Lee & Xu has done a translation of the Property Law, available here.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org.cn: China will overtake Japan, Germany, Britain and Italy to become the world’s second biggest consumer goods market behind the United States by 2015, according to the findings of a survey by Credit Suisse, one of the world’s leading investment banks. The Swiss-based bank estimates that Chinese consumption will account for 14.1 […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Zhejiang Online: China is doing a better job fighting piracy and could announce new initiatives early next week when it hosts a global conference on protecting intellectual property rights, a U.S. business leader said on Wednesday. “I do think the Chinese are going to want to put a strong face forward. … […]
Read MoreFrom Cool Hunting blog: There are only a handful of independently run music labels in China but more and more independently produced music is being released everyday, fueling a small yet burgeoning indie music scene. Holding to the spirit of truly independent music, many Chinese bands are producing truly original music and oftentimes you can […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press, via San Gabriel Valley Tribune As a top engineer at a major U.S. defense contractor, Chi Mak helped develop some of the most advanced and closely guarded naval technology in the world, including silent-running propulsion systems that can make submarines virtually undetectable. Now, in a case that experts say could have serious […]
Read MoreFrom Ziji’s Space blog, translated by CDT: All domestic print press have received urgent notices from the State Council Information Office at 1:30 pm, March 24, no more reporting and commenting on the...
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: The episode of a Chongqing couple’s prolonged struggle of refusing to have their house demolished is not over yet, while a family in Jiangsu allegedly killed two people for the same kind of dispute: home demolishing and relocation. On Thursday, Ma Xueming, a Suzhou resident, allegedly attacked Zhang Jinlong, a […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: A rising Chinese political star and economic reformer has been named Communist Party boss of Shanghai, the party said Saturday, after his predecessor was ousted in a politically charged scandal. The appointment of Xi Jinping, currently party secretary for the booming province of Zhejiang, south of Shanghai, was announced in a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: The debate at the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s highest legislative body, over the country’s first private property law spilled over into the public sphere at the NPC’s annual meeting which ended on March 16, exposing internal debates around the opposing forces of capitalism and communism. And, despite the fact that China’s […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Low rainfall in the province of Sichuan has forced officials to deliver clean water to the worst-hit areas. Six million livestock and half a million hectares of land are affected, Sichuan’s governor said. [Full text]
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