Video: Trailer of the Banned Film – “Summer Palace”

From SFIAAFF: A heady and emotionally charged chronicle of the short-lived sexual and political idealism which swept through Beijing in the late ’80s, Lou Ye’s (®ÑÁÉ®) fourth feature marks a stunning new direction for Chinese cinema. Certainly the most erotic and sexually explicit film to come from mainland China, SUMMER PALACE is ground-breaking in its […]

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Video: Owner of China’s Nailhouse Refuses to Move

These videos were shot and uploaded on Youtube yesterday. In the video clips, the owner of the nailhouse in Chongqing told the media that she will not vacate her home and will insist on protecting her private propety. Video1/5: -Read Property Law, Netizen Journalism and “China’s Most Incredible Holdout” via CDT.

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More Citizens Rush to Marry Foreigners – Shanghai Daily

From Shanghai Daily via China Daily: Nearly 3,000 Shanghainese tied the knot with people from 55 overseas countries and regions last year, growing 22.97 percent from a year earlier, Wenhui Daily reported today. The average age gap between Shanghai women and their foreign husbands is 10.5, and 13 percent of the foreign husbands are 20 […]

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Top editor to leave The South China Morning Post – Vaudine England

From The International Herald Tribune: The South China Morning Post, the leading English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, said Monday that its top editor had resigned in the latest of a long succession of changes in editorial management in recent years. Mark Clifford, an American, was editor in chief of the Post group for just one […]

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Tokyo and Beijing in Historical Divide – Rowan Callick

From The Australian: Just as China and Japan are starting to patch up their political differences, history wars are again threatening to throw a spanner in the works. On the eve of a crucial visit to Japan by China’s Premier Wen Jiabao, which he hopes will be “ice-thawing”, the project aimed at producing a joint […]

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China Postal Bank Opens for Business – Mure Dickie

From Financial Times: China’s revamped postal ¬≠savings system on Tuesday opened for business as the country’s fifth biggest bank, pledging to improve its reach in rural areas where financial services and capital are scarce. The launch of the China Postal Savings Bank ¬≠followed years of delay and dispute over how to reform the sprawling postal […]

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Hong Kong Rapped for Own Pollution – Robin Kwong and Tom Mitchell

From Financial Times: Hong Kong’s air pollution is caused locally rather than by south China’s industrial engines for at least half the year, according to a study released Wednesday. The territory can therefore do more to fix a chronic problem that is affecting its international standing as a top-tier financial and services centre, it said. […]

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China: More rights for millionaires – Pallavi Aiyar

From Asia Times, a look at how the government is addressing concerns about growing social and economic inequality, and the lingering tensions over the issue: Increasingly squeezed between the demands of the right and the criticisms of the left, the CCP is engaged in an ever more delicate juggling act, balancing the interests of the […]

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Journalist in Landmark Defamation Court Case – Raymond Li

Here is the second case reported this week of legal action taken by a journalist in China against a government official or agency. From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A senior Beijing-based journalist has taken the Qitaihe municipal government Office of Law and Order and its director, Liu Mingying, to court in […]

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China Prepares for Olympics by Quieting the Press – SperoNews

From SperoNews: “Hide the uncomfortable truth while promoting goodness stories in view of increased press freedom conceded to foreign reporters during the 2008 Olympic games”, wrote Shangdon’s provincial government to its officials. And in a document issued by the city government of Pingdu, all departments, organisations and officials were urged to “prepare for the challenge […]

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After Sell-Off, Chinese Stocks Back at a Record – David Barboza

From The New York Times: After a huge sell-off here just a few weeks ago that helped set off a drop in global financial markets, China’s stock market has rebounded and rose to a record Wednesday. Many investors say the sell-off on Feb. 27, when the Shanghai composite index plunged 8.8 percent, was simply a […]

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China Protesters Block Rail Lines – BBC

From BBC News: Hundreds of demonstrators blocked key railway lines in eastern China in protest at threats to their benefits, state media has reported. More than 200 protesters, and several hundred onlookers, descended on two lines near Guixi in Jiangxi province. They were protesting at planned zoning changes in Guixi which could impact on income […]

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