From Spiegel Online: A group of Shanghai residents has written to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to ask for her support in their fight to stop the extension of the maglev train line. While some of them are worried about finding somewhere to live in time and how they will be compensated, those who are […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Pollution from China’s factories and vehicles is significantly reducing rainfall in hilly areas of the country. Writing in the journal Science, researchers report that rainfall is reduced by about 50% in some cases. Clouds form more easily when pollutant particles are abundant, but rain droplets and snowflakes are less likely to grow […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Only authorized dramas are allowed on Chinese prime-time television, customs inspectors are seizing books on Mao Zedong at China’s borders and newspapers are prohibited from running stories on the Communist Party’s misdeeds. In the midst of a sensitive political season, China’s machinery of state control is gearing up to make sure that nothing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Yahoo News: With the familiarity of a long-married couple, Leng Zhijin lifts his wife Wang Xiangying’s ragged blouse to show raw rashes and she grasps his shoulder, gaunt after 20 days of diarrhea. Like an estimated 300,000 farmers across central China’s rural Henan province, including some 100 in their brick-and-mud Leng Village […]
Read MoreTime to become a “sea turtle (ʵ∑ÂΩí)?” So says the Wall Street Journal: When Zhe Xu receives his M.B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley this spring, he will hop a plane back to his native China for a job in management consulting rather than seek employment in the U.S. Just a few […]
Read MoreFrom TimesOnline: China sent in the Army to restore order today after a student was killed and dozens of people were hurt when police in a central Chinese town used batons to beat back 20,000 villagers demonstrating against a steep rise in bus fares. The unusually large and violent protest reflected the difficulties faced by […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: …Tiger skins are valuable and considered status symbols in areas such as Tibet, while bones and other parts of the animal are used in traditional medicines and as aphrodisiacs. There’s even wine made with crushed tiger bone. China banned trade in tiger parts in 1993, but TRAFFIC suspects pressure is growing on the […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: Frustrations boiled over in Zhushan village in Hunan province a few days ago, as people trying to take the bus to Lingling town were confronted with price gouging. Roland has the links, and pictures! People are still traveling for the Chinese New Year holiday. Demand for public transport is high; […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC News: Just once every year for just two weeks, three thousand delegates come together to the Great Hall of the People to discuss whether or not to accept the latest party proposal. However, after the 50 years the parliament has been in place, they have never once rejected a party proposal. [Full […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters via the New York Times: “China will intensify controls of the growing numbers of bloggers using the Internet to lay bare their thoughts, politics and even bodies, the country’s chief censor has announced. The director of China’s General Administration of Press and Publication, Long Xinmin, said the administration was forming rules to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: Zhao Ziyang‘s thoughts, available in a new book, point to his vision of change in China. The deposed Party Chief supported more elections, party democracy, and accountability Speaking from the grave, a remarkable Chinese political figure is calling for drastic changes in the Communist Party, including the elimination of the post of […]
Read MoreIt’s no surprise that the censors flagged the pending property law off-limits to scrutiny during this year’s legislative session – not after an ideological rumpus helped derail its passage last year. The vast majority of mainstream news outlets have obliged, taking cues from the constructive official line. The one major magazine to strike out on […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Peasant, the hardworking and simple, should not be considered a derogative word,” said Yuan Chunqing, Governor of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, on a nationally televised talk show. The noun “peasant” has been using as adjective as part of a posh Chinese vocabulary for many, describing those who are unstylish and ill-informed… Yuan, […]
Read MoreFrom The Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition): The Northeast Asian history war is getting serious. A recent case in point is Chinese Netizen’s denunciation of South Korean short-track athletes at the Winter Asian Games in Changchun, China for holding up a banner saying Mt.Baekdu belongs to Korea. As if they didn’t have enough trouble from the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will set up a food safety information system to keep people better informed, a health ministry spokesman said on Monday, after a spate of scares over everything from fake baby milk to carcinogenic fish. “We must pay attention to hygiene and safety of the public’s food and drink, and at the same […]
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