From China News Agency, via sina.com, translated by CDT: Three recent coal mine accidents during Nov. 25-26 angered Li Yizhong (ÊùéÊØÖ‰∏≠), minister of the State Coal Mine Safety Administration (ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÂÆâÁõëÊĪ±Ä) during a national tele-conference televised by CCTV’s “360 degrees” program. Li said that the three coal mines, according to preliminary investigations, were all closed mines […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Deep in a basement laboratory at the University of Toronto, a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or “hactivists,” have created the latest, and some say the most advanced, tool that aims to allow Internet users to circumvent government censorship of the Web. The program, called psiphon […]
Read MoreElementary school students are greeting guests in Xibaipo , Hebei province , via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Reuters: President Bush discussed the conflict in Darfur, Sudan with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during a telephone call, China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The two leaders also discussed Sino-U.S. relations in the conversation on Monday and “other issues of common concern,” the official agency said. The talks were […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Hai dreams of learning Arabic and hopes one day to study in the Middle East… It’s thousands of miles from Mecca, but more and more Chinese Muslims are fulfilling their dreams of learning about their faith as the government relaxes controls over Islam to win hearts in the Middle East, where it seeks […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China will tighten its organ transplant rules to prevent unqualified doctors and profit-hungry hospitals from abusing patients, state media said Monday, amid concerns that executed prisoners have had their organs harvested without consent. The draft regulation, which has been sent to the State Council for review, would require a new organization under the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: The son of a well-known campaigner for the rights of China’s Uighur minority has been jailed for tax evasion in the country’s north-west Xinjiang province. Alimu Ahbudurimu, son of Rebiya Kadeer, was jailed for seven years and fined for evading some $26,000 in taxes, Chinese state media report. Another of Ms Kadeer’s children, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: December 11 2006 has been pencilled into the diaries of foreign commercial banks operating in China ever since the country agreed to join the World Trade Organisation five years ago. With less than two weeks to go until China lifts many restrictions on banks’ ability to open new branches and offer products […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the retrial of activist Chen Guangcheng: A Chinese legal expert who exposed abuses in the country’s population control policies got a rare second trial today, but his lawyers accused local authorities of preventing them from mounting a vigorous defense. The legal expert, Chen Guangcheng, was sentenced in August to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: In 1976, Mao Zedong died, leaving China destitute. Shopping was a dreary chore, more space than stock filled shelves. Choice was almost unheard of because there was no competition, just control and command. Today, however, China’s supermarkets brim, the choices as dizzying as any in Europe or Japan. A big dash of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: The dollar fell 2% against the yen last week and is at a 19-month low against the euro and appears set to go lower. Several Asian currencies, even including the Philippine peso, are at their best levels since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998. Is this a blip? Or the start of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: Quietly adroit diplomatic moves shore up China’s energy needs As the United States has stumbled from crisis to crisis in the Middle East earning a reputation for war mongering and callousness, China has quietly but rapidly been widening and extending its links, becoming a new player and substantially upgrading economic ties, especially […]
Read MoreAsia Sentinel published an excerpt of Jasper Becker’s new book, “Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today” (Part 2 of 2): So far it is China’s search to secure supplies of oil that is affecting the rest of the world. China’s biggest domestic oil fields in Daqing in the northeast and the Shengli oil […]
Read MoreFrom YouMeiTI (Êúâ™í‰Ωì) blog: Jin Ge’s documentary work on Chinese World of Warcraft(WoW) goldfarmers was highlighted for MTV’s Gamer’s Week 2.0: Is Mining Virtual Gold Exploitive? Jin Ge has estimated there are at least half million goldfarmers working throughout China in organized game sweatshops, where they work to produce gold/points for market consumption–pimarily for gamers […]
Read MoreFrom CBC.ca: A ceremony was held Sunday in park in Shunde, a Chinese town near Hong Kong, to lay the foundations of theme park dedicated to kung fu star Bruce Lee. Lee’s younger brother, Robert, and actress Betty Ting Pei were at the ceremony to kick off work on the 200 million yuan ($29 million […]
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