From Reuters: …Over the past year, small new farmhouses have sprouted, looking incongruous among the southern region’s fields of sugar cane and karst mountains — similar to those in Guilin, one of top tourist attractions in China. High prices for the commodity in past few years had encouraged farmers to plant cane to the utmost. […]
Read MoreAP reports on the latest protest by villagers angered by industrial pollution: Police in southern China arrested 10 farmers embroiled in a dispute with a paper mill over pollution they say is killing their crops and fouling their water sources, villagers and media reports said Friday… The dispute reflects a common complaint in China: Industries […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian, progress in Murdoch’s efforts to enter the China market with MySpace: News Corporation is applying to the Chinese authorities for an internet-services licence and expects to set up the joint venture in Beijing, according to a report on Reuters. The IDG-Accel China Growth Fund, managed by venture firm International Data Group Technology […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Suicide Rabbit, introduced in August by Liu Gang, a 35-year-old cartoonist, has attracted a swiftly increasing audience by portraying with gentle humor the million little abuses suffered by Chinese people as their society endures a bumpy transformation. Hapless but always well intentioned, he has provided a rare opportunity for Chinese young […]
Read MoreThe revelation by a minister in the UK earlier this week that the volume of Britain’s trash shipments to China have increased nearly 160-fold in the last decade prompted calls from the Liberal Democrats for the country to take care of more of its own recycling. Now it seems China it also looking into the […]
Read MoreAt the World Economic Forum in Davos, the founders of Google spoke out about the impact that their business decisions in China have had on their company: Google, launched in 1998 by two Stanford University dropouts, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was accused of selling out and reneging on its “Don’t be evil” motto when […]
Read MoreA blind man playing Erhu in Guangzhou , via www.xitek.com
Read MoreFrom The Time Magazine: What struck me most about the four farmers who showed up at TIME’s Beijing bureau back in 2001 was that they were wearing new shirts. With callused hands and dirt under their fingernails, these men were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China’s capital. But one look and […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: A key figure was missing from the two-day Central Conference on Financial Affairs that ended last Saturday. Huang Ju, who ranks sixth on the nine-member standing committee of the Politburo, is in charge of China’s financial affairs. It was reported that Huang has handed over his power overseeing financial affairs to […]
Read MoreFrom the Stateman: Five Chinese workers abducted earlier this month in Nigeria described their experience as “hell on earth” after arriving in Beijing following their 13-day ordeal, state media reported on Tuesday. The five were freed in Nigeria”s oil-producing delta after gunmen broke into the rented apartment on a construction site where the five were […]
Read MoreTwo brothers in a mountain village in Fujian province , via www.xitek.com
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China’s successful anti-satellite missile test has sparked a political firestorm, as analysts have tried to ascertain who in China knew what when and to what end. Were China’s diplomats in...
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: To understand the widening digital gap between the Chinese state and its people, consider the underground success of the American TV show “Prison Break.” There isn’t much about this Fox drama that would suggest a Chinese hit. Chock full of flashbacks, cliffhangers and so on, “Prison Break” has been a respectable success […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s environmental watchdog has handed the maximum possible fine to a PetroChina subsidiary for a toxic river spill which cut off water to millions. Jilin Petrochemical was ordered to pay 1m yuan ($125,000, ¬£64,000) for its pollution of the Songhua River in 2005, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. A blast at its […]
Read MoreTranslated by ESWN: Former People’s Daily deputy editor-in-chief Zhou Ruijin (Âë®ÁëûÈáë) created a sensation in 1991 when he wrote a series of articles under the penname Huangfu Ping (ÁöáÁî´Âπ≥) to lay the groundwork for Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour the next year. Last year, he also received attention with his article “The Reforms Cannot Vacillate” in […]
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