From Channel NewsAsia: Blogs have been rich material for news and also entertainment in China these days. As bloggers are being taken to court over offences like slander, some are pausing to question if more should be done to regulate blogs in the mainland, especially when bloggers are expected to number 100 million by next […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg via IHT: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has ordered government departments to crack down on hoarding and ease supply bottlenecks to cap surging food prices that threaten to fan inflation and create unrest. Stockpiling of food should be closely watched, and efficient stocking, logistics and distribution must be ensured, Wen said Tuesday during a […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China will waive tuition fees for 150 million rural children next year in an attempt to close the education gulf that has opened up between rich and poor students since the start of the country’s market reforms. The 15bn yuan (¬£1bn) scheme was hailed by the state media as a major element […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: An outspoken Chinese human rights lawyer was put on trial this week on charges of inciting subversion, but the authorities kept such tight control over the proceedings that his lawyer and his family were not given a chance to attend, his lawyer said today. Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s culture ministry has ordered local internet companies to apply for approval from government censors for any foreign music they make available online and to prove they own all necessary distribution rights. The new rules from the Ministry of Culture mark the latest in a series of moves by Beijing to tighten […]
Read MoreFrom Raymond Zhou blog: It is a casting call to top all casting calls. The project in question is a television adaptation of “A Dream of Red Mansions,” a mammoth novel that is indisputably the pinnacle of Chinese literature in the fiction genre. There are some 100 roles with names and the Beijing Television Station […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Yesterday Danwei reported that China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) published air pollution statistics for major Chinese cities. The Beijing pollution rating for December 12, 2006 was a record 500, the maximum score on the scale that SEPA uses. 200 is considered a bad day for Beijing. The primary pollutant on December […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Exhortations to “write standard characters” appear on banners and billboards throughout Beijing. This full-page spread in The Beijing News on Tuesday announces itself as a “public service advertisement,” (ÂÖ¨ÁõäÂπøÂëä), only the composer has mistakenly replaced “public welfare” (ÂÖ¨Áõä) with the homophone “justice” (ÂÖ¨‰πâ). The copy (click the image for the full thing) […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth blog: Wow… 12 Shopping Days left until Christmas. [Original Picture here]
Read MoreThe latest edition of South Wind Window (Nanfeng Chuang ÂçóÈ£éÁ™ó) magazine has a soild read about a peasant woman’s unlikely transformation from kidnapped bride to model teacher, and the pressures she’s faced from local cadres since hundreds of Chinese newspapers and TV stations latched on to her story earlier this year. In 1994, when she […]
Read MoreA man performing Fire-swallowing in Xiangxi, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Democratic nations must stand up for Taiwan’s right to determine its own future without China’s military threats. The recent close mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s two largest cities, remind us that Taiwan remains a thriving democracy. Along with South Korea, Taiwan is one of two former Asian dictatorships […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China passed Mexico as the second- largest U.S. trading partner in the first 10 months of this year, demonstrating a surge in commerce between the two countries since China joined the World Trade Organization. The milestone was revealed in Commerce Department data released today. China was the fourth-largest U.S. trading partner when it […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China said Tuesday that creating welfare programs for its soaring numbers of elderly is a national priority, but warned that will be a daunting challenge in a rapidly graying society. With a population of 1.3 billion, China faces an acute demographic crunch due to birth-control programs that limit most urban couples to one […]
Read MoreFrom Al Jazeera: China has announced a crackdown on consumer piracy, a day before a high-level US trade mission arrives in Beijing. Henry Paulson, the US treasury secretary, is due to begin talks in the Chinese capital on Thursday aimed at tackling some of the main areas of tension in one of the world’s most […]
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