In These Times reports on international companies role in influencing a proposed new labor law in China which would ensure protections for workers’ rights: In a suprise move, the government asked for public input. Nearly 200,000 comments were sent in. The responses were mostly from Chinese workers, but representatives of American and European business organizations, […]
Read MoreFrom Raymond Zhou Blog: Winter vacation is around the corner, and a management school at Zhengzhou University has given one special assignment to students happily going home to celebrate Spring Festival: perform a kowtow to their parents. The students are generally not pleased, according to media reports. The school explained that kowtowing is the highest […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Chinaelections.org: The sacked deputy chief of Shanyang County’s public security bureau in Shaanxi Province, He Qi, has admitted to his crimes in court. He and 13 members of his gang are facing trial in the city of Shangluo for running a prostitution racket, detaining people illegally, extortion and blackmail, drug trafficking, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Chinaelections.org: A senior Chinese leader is calling for the police and judiciary to improve their work to better cope with social conflicts, according to an article to be published by the Party Journal Qiushi, or Seeking Truth on Thursday. Luo Gan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: Wealth disparity has been growing despite government efforts to stop the trend, according to the national economic planner. Salaries have grown steadily in the past 15 years but the income gap continues to rise, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website on Wednesday. The report said the disparity between urban […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: The All-China Federation of Trade Unions wants to recruit more than 10 million rural migrant workers as trade union members this year, an official said yesterday. “Only by absorbing more migrant workers into trade unions can we better protect their rights and interests in a legal and orderly way,” said Chen Ruiguo, an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Australian: THE Dalai Lama accused Beijing today of using a new railway link to flood Tibet with beggars, prostitutes and the unemployed, destroying its culture and traditions. “The railway link is a real danger,” said the spiritual leader, who fled to India from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Boston.com: The Chinese author of a book about long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger to the ruling Communist Party‘s censors, daring them on Friday to explain their secretive ways before the law. Zhang Yihe won fame in China three years ago for a memoir of her father and other […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via China Daily: As manager of Beijing’s first pole dancing school, Luo says she is trying to make exercise fun — and not morally corrupt anyone in a country where this kind of dancing is associated with seedy bars and sex is still a taboo topic. But she admits she has had a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s test of an anti-satellite weapon last month underscores U.S. frustration in efforts to forge reliable communications with the secretive Chinese military, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday. Richard Lawless, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, said the missile launch that destroyed an aging Chinese weather satellite […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an article in yWeekend, which includes interviews with the two reporters who have done the most extensive investigations into the murder of Lan Chengzhang. In it, investigative journalist Wang Keqin says: The situation of news bureaus was caused by the “real problem” of the illegal coal mines. The two roads from the […]
Read MoreOver one million Google Video users have downloaded the independent documentary called “The Rape of Nanking,” which chronicles Japan’s WWII atrocities in China, reports the Chinese- language Sing Tao Daily. The Imperial Japanese Army raped and killed women, children, and civilians in December of 1937. Some experts estimate the death toll to be about 300,000 […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: Former president Lee Teng-hui (ÊùéÁôªËºù) yesterday said he had never advocated Taiwanese independence because Taiwan is already an independent country. Lee made the remarks in an interview with cable station TVBS yesterday afternoon. The station broadcast the interview last night. “I’ve never advocated things like pursuing Taiwan’s independence in terms of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via eastday.com: A leading lawmaker slammed Chinese companies for blindly pursuing profit and neglecting their social responsibilities and suggested legislation to buck the trend. “The practice is serious and widespread among Chinese firms. Like other countries, China can no longer tolerate it,” Cheng Siwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s […]
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