A Chinese official wrote the Washington Post a letter to berate the reports of Gao Yaojie’s house arrest: Re “China Covers Up AIDS Doctor’s Detention” and “China Relents, Allowing AIDS Doctor to Visit U.S.” (news articles, Feb. 16 and 17): Dr. Gao Yaojie has long worked for H.I.V./AIDS prevention, treatment and assistance in China. Her […]
Read MoreFrom The Tribune Chandigarth, India: Lately, one detects some nervousness among China’s rulers. The increased level of repression in the country is an important indication of this. There are reports of all kinds of people being put behind bars or being simply picked up by the authorities for salutary beating. And many of them do […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Chinese mobile phone users’ text-message sending spree during Spring Festival made message writer a lucrative profession in the country. It was estimated by China’s top two telecommunications operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, that Chinese people would send more than 14 billion greeting text messages during the week-long Spring Festival holiday. The figure […]
Read MoreFrom Spero News: The Qinghai-Lhasa railway line, much vaunted by Beijing as a tool to develop the territory’s economy, will be used to strip the area of its vast mineral riches to the benefit of far-away industries. Recent finds show Tibet is a mining company’s dream, but many fear that development won’t bring much prosperity […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns are rising in Beijing of ethnic unrest in the border region. Its plans for economic development there may be in trouble. Mao Tse Tung defies the icy wind blowing from the Pamir […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, translated by CDT: A research paper jointly done by Chinese, French, Russian and American scientists have found that snow caps on the Himalayas mountains have been affected by global warming. The finding was based on the research on ice cores from the mountains collected in 2001, 2002 and recent years. Analysis finds that […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: The top leader of China’s Hunan province, Zhang Chunxian (º†Êò•Ë¥§), who took up his post in November 2006, has set the bar for official public relations savvy in Hu Jintao’s new drive to “develop [the Internet] well, use it well and manage it well” (ª∫ËÆæÂ•Ω„ÄÅÂà©Áî®Â•Ω„ÄÅÁÆ°ÁêÜ•Ω). In what some have read as […]
Read MoreChinese movie fans have picked up a new hobby: entertain themselves by spoofing entertainment itself, such as movies. Even though some Chinese movies are posting encouraging box office results, China’s film industry as a whole seems to be losing the audience. Via Xinhua, translated by CDT: The number of Chinese movies has been rising significantly […]
Read MoreIt’s a hassle to buy tickets home before Spring Festival. It’s also a hassle to purchase tickets to return to work. In China, the Spring Festival ticket buyers are called “Gou Piao Da Jun”(Giant Ticket Buying Army/Ë¥≠Á•®Â§ßÂÜõ). China Daily published a photo series of the Gou Piao Da Jun; more from the Sina.com: Long queue […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices: Last autumn, Qin Zhongfei, a low-ranking civil servant in Pengshui County of mid-western China’s Chongqing Municipality, wove some sarcastic political humor into a poem and sent it out to a few dozen friends via text and instant message. Charged with slander by then County Party Secretary Lan Qinghua, one of several political […]
Read MoreTop Chinese official has addressed the urgency of increasing natural disasters in China, via China Daily: …Water Resources Vice-Minister E Jingping told local authorities to prepare for torrential floods, typhoons and continued drought. Yangtze River‘s water level has dropped about 40 percent on average. Two of the biggest lakes along the river, Dongting Lake and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Australian News: China is expected to see a fall in its GDP figure this year with the growth rate predicted at nine percent, the lowest for the past four years. Liu Shijin, deputy director of the Development Research Centre of the State Council, a government think tank, said Tuesday that driven by […]
Read MoreMa Xiancong is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law. His following article was first published in Green Leaf magazine in China. Translated by ChinaDialogue website: “The most prominent issue in the enforcement of environmental law is the government itself breaking the law.” [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom ChinaDialogue: China’s leadership has recognised the need to fight environmental degradation and reduce the country’s widening income gap. A green GDP index may help, argue Yongnian Zheng & Minjia Chen, but can it be enforced? Since the reform and open door policy of the late 1970s, China has achieved a consistently high level of […]
Read MoreA woman walks through a traditional doorway in Chuandixia, by Natalie Behring
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