The Chinese Unease about Falun Gong РJürgen Kremb
Spiegel Online has posted a story summarizing the recent history of the Falun Gong movement in China: But the movement has refused to fold. A constant thorn in the party’s side, it has responded to repression with a series of unusual protests. In 2002, Li’s disciples manipulated the signals of a Chinese TV satellite and […]
Read MoreTop GAPP official: user-generated content to be managed with new regulations on Internet publishing – David Bandurski
From the China Media Project: The head of China’s top print media regulating agency said yesterday that newly emerging media platforms like Weblogs have “already drawn attention from relevant government offices” and stressed they would soon be brought under their supervision with the help of new management regulations on Internet publishing, according to the Beijing […]
Read MoreWitness: 1 Killed in China Protest – Audra Ang
From AP: A student was killed and at least 60 people were injured in central China when villagers armed with bricks and rocks clashed with baton-wielding police over rising transportation fees, a witness and news reports said Tuesday. Residents in Zhushan(belongs to Yongzhou), a village in Hunan province, began gathering around a government building on […]
Read MoreGao Yaojie is Not Sensationalizing the Problem – Yan Lieshan (China Business Herald)
China analyst David Cowhig has provided the following translation of an article from the China Business Herald about Doctor Gao Yaojie and the AIDS epidemic in China. Below is a note from the translator followed by the translation: Translator’s note: Dr. Gao Yaojie will receive a Global Leadership Award from Vital Voices on March 14 […]
Read MoreChina May Sell U.S. Bonds – William Sluis
From Chicago Tribune: In a move that speaks to China’s growing significance in the global economy, its government said Friday it will look for more aggressive ways to invest sizable portions of its massive $1 trillion currency reserves. The new Chinese pool of money, expected to total $200 billion to $300 billion, would instantly create […]
Read MoreChina’s Trade Surplus Nearly Ties Record – Keith Bradsher
From The New York Times: China’s already large exports have accelerated further this year, with China’s customs agency announcing today that the country’s February trade surplus nearly tied a record set in October. The size of the surplus, $23.76 billion, particularly surprised economists because Chinese exports tend to lag in the winter after surging in […]
Read MoreBeijingers Urged to Queue on Monthly “Queuing Day” – Xinhua
From Xinhua, via Crienglish: The girl carefully pasted the card with her signature on an exhibiting board. On the card, the four-year-old Liang Miaozhu vowed to queue in the public and respect order. Liang, accompanied by her mom, is among hundreds of Beijing citizens who participated on Sunday in activities in Beijing’s busy Wangfujing Street […]
Read MoreMedia told to toe official party line – SCMP
From South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Beijing has tightened control of mainland media during the annual sessions of the top legislature and advisory body in a bid to silence dissent amid intensified efforts to woo foreign media ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. Propaganda authorities have urged mainland media to strictly toe the […]
Read More‘Thousands Riot’ in China Protest – BBC
From BBC News: A protest staged by thousands of rural workers in central China ended in violent clashes last week, reports say. Several people were injured as up to 20,000 people clashed with 1,000 police in Hunan province on Friday, a local official told Reuters news agency. The Boxun Chinese news website said the clash […]
Read More21st Century Media Eyes Domestic Offering – SCMP
From The South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: 21st Century Media, the manager and publisher of the mainland’s leading financial newspaper 21st Century Business Herald, is planning a domestic initial public offering this year to fund expansion, media management sources said yesterday. “They are hungry for money as they have set a very aggressive […]
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Chinese National People’s Congress, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreChinacast: Interview with The New York Times’ Howard W. French
New York Times features writer and amateur photographer Howard French holds forth in one of the most voluminous editions of the Chinacast Foreign Correspondents Series so far. Based in Shanghai, French covers a wide swathe of...
Read MoreChina to Lower Number of Death Sentences – Scott McDonald
From AP: China should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out, but the world’s leading executioner of prisoners cannot afford to do away with capital punishment altogether, the country’s top legal bodies said. In a joint statement released late Sunday, the Supreme People’s Court, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Justice and the […]
Read MoreGame Over for China’s Net Addicts – Reuters
From Reuters: Combining sympathy with discipline, a military-style boot camp near Beijing is at the front-line of China’s battle against Internet addiction, a disorder afflicting millions of the nation’s youth. The Internet Addiction Treatment Center (IATC) in Daxing county uses a blend of therapy and military drills to treat the children of China’s nouveau riche […]
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