From China Media Project: There’s been hardly a peep about the proposed real-name registration system for the Web in China since the chairman of the Internet Society of China, charged with creating the system, stepped out on November 28 to calm fears such a system would violate personal privacy. Officials have said the system is […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Hundreds of workers demonstrated outside a factory producing Italian furniture in southern China, protesting the alleged severe beating of three employees demanding better severance payments, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Friday. The workers gathered and chanted slogans on Thursday at the factory in Shenzhen owned by DeCoro, founded by Italian businessman Luca Ricci, […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China paid for the marble and tile parliament building soaring above the crumbling homes of this former Portuguese colony, and is also promising a dam and a military hospital _ all with none of the political strings Western donors might attach. Intent on cementing ties across Africa, China is active even in impoverished […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute to Christians who are persecuted for their faith, including Roman Catholics who suffer because of their loyalty to the pontiff, an apparent reference to the underground church in China. …Benedict has been leading a Vatican campaign for religious liberty, with particular attention to the plight of Catholics loyal […]
Read MoreAmidst all the talk about China’s new rules allowing foreign reporters greater freedom to travel and conduct interviews, the American Journalism Review takes a skeptical view of China’s promises of press freedom for the 2008 Olympics. The piece begins by mentioning rules implemented last September that make Xinhua the sole legitimate distributor of foreign news […]
Read MoreAs Communist Party leaders wring their hands over what to do with China’s rising temperatures, a new report suggests an atmospheric temperature shift may be what led the fall of the mighty Tang. From Science, Engineering & Technology News: The Tang dynasty is famed for a flowering of art and literature and for prosperity brought […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph Blog: Last night I managed to fulfill a long-held ambition by going to see a performance of the stirring revolutionary ballet, The Red Detachment of Women. Here’s a photo, and you can see a string of others at this lecturer’s website from New York University. They give you a flavour of the thing. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Several hundred villagers from the southeastern Chinese province of
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Taiwan’s new high speed train service – which begins commercial operations on Friday – is expected to herald the start of a transport revolution on the island. Travelling on the sleek white and orange trains at speeds of up to 300km/h (186 mph) will see journey times between the capital, Taipei, in […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: A roadside bomb in southern China killed two children who found the explosive wrapped in a package and began playing with it, Hong Kong news organizations reported Thursday. Before the explosion, which occurred Wednesday in Shenzhen, residents said that they had received threatening phone calls, and the police said […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Lawyer activist Gao Zhisheng (È´òÊô∫Êôü)’s mother-in-law returned to Urumqi (‰πåÈ≤ÅÊú®ÈΩê) and told the reporter that Gao was taken away by the state authorities 4-5 days before the New Year for “a talk” and his whereabouts is now unknown to the outside world. The Falun Gong-representing lawyer […]
Read MoreThe Independent reports on the destruction of Beijing’s ancient hutongs: These are troubled times for Beijing’s ancient hutong laneways, which once fanned out around the city to form a graceful network of passageways lined with traditional courtyard houses – grey, Ming-dynasty environs filled with atmosphere. Only a third of the hutongs still exist; the rest […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: The photos of this man before his death would’ve been censored by major news outlets: his belly grossly ballooned up, blood running out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, hemorrhages in the brain and kidneys. According to a doctor, this man’s internal organs would turn […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: A Great coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century. Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth: It is quieter in Guangzhou these days because of the ban on motorcycles and Scooters. I feel a bit better now knowing that some “Ê∏ÖÂÖµ” Qing Bing Rider‚Äìthis is the Cantonese equivalent of a Kami Kaze meaning “Qing Warrior” as they were the ones who were first to rush into battle and die‚Äìis […]
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