From BBC News: China has banned commercial fishing for three months along a 1,000km (620 mile) stretch of the Yangtze River in a bid to protect threatened fish stocks. Fishing boats will be banned from trawling in central Hubei province and Chongqing Municipality, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Bans covering two other stretches […]
Read MoreStephanie Kleine-Ahlbrahndt and Andrew Small write in the International Herald Tribune about a crucial shift in China’s diplomacy, as seen in their recent actions toward Sudan and North Korea: China’s foreign policy transformation has been a while in the making. Its long-standing protection of the Sudanese regime was already unraveling during the China-Africa summit meeting […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: On January 1, 2007, the Chinese government loosened restrictions on the media, including those that limited the freedom of foreign journalists to travel and conduct interviews in the country. Shortly after, the Paris-based press watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced an end to its boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Foreign media began […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian, via buzzle.com: More than 30 Tibetans were tortured and incarcerated in a labour camp after their bid to escape across the Himalayas from their homeland failed when Chinese border guards fired on the unarmed group, according to a survivor. In the first reported account of what happened to those taken from the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose “donors” may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday… Matas estimated that at least 100 Canadians have gone to China for transplants […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: The following is the translation of The Press by Zhu Huaxiang (朱华祥). This book is one of the eight books that were banned by the General Administration of Press and Publications. The Press is a novel about the lives of certain newspapers workers in a hypothetical place known as Oriental City.
Read MoreFrom The China Blog – Time: Over the weekend, Xinhua reported the latest in the Shanghai corruption scandal which was responsible for the dismissal of the city’s Communist Party Secretary Chen Liangyu. Chen was removed from his post last September and put under “joint regulations,” a special kind of extra-judicial disciplinary regime reserved for high-ranking […]
Read MoreAnti-corruption demonstration in Taiwan, via dans.photo
Read MoreClick and watch this BBC documentary. While China is growing and moving very fast, there are some people still believe that India has a better chance to become Super Power and sustain the growth rate. Aanother clear distinction even mentioned in this video, India is pioneering innovation to differentiate in terms of Quality products rather […]
Read MoreChinese educator and columnist Wu Fei (Âê¥Èùû) has a doctoral degree in news and communication from the National University of Moscow in Russia and currently teaches at the department of journalism and communication at Xiamen University. He wrote the following sarcastic but revealing essay on his blog. Last week’s Southern Weekly republished it in the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Most of the suspects involved in the misappropriation of more than 3 billion yuan ($386 million) from Shanghai’s social security fund have been turned over to judicial departments for prosecution, Mayor Han Zheng was quoted by the Shanghai Securities News as saying… In July, investigators discovered that 3.45 billion yuan had been […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via The New York Times: The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has made the semi-autonomous Chinese city of Macau his home for the past three years, living a low-key but comfortable life, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Thursday. Macau, a former Portuguese-run enclave which returned to China in […]
Read MoreFollowing the New York Times report yesterday, another look into corruption in the Chinese media: Media extortion is relatively common in China’s mining industry, which is rife with illegal practices, but elsewhere press corruption is more subtle. Reporters at news conferences are routinely offered envelopes of cash, ostensibly to cover travel costs but with the […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, via ncn.com, translated by David Kelly: The 21st century Economic Herald recently published a report entitled “New target of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions: 10 million rural migrant workers...
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