From Reuters: Chinese police freed an AIDS activist on Monday after holding him for days and forcing him to scrap a planned conference, but four other people were still in custody, a non-governmental organisation said on its Web site. Chinese authorities are wary of organisations they cannot directly control, such as independent activist groups, and […]
Read MoreFrom The Atlantic, via A Glimpse of the World blog: Twenty years ago, my wife and I moved with our two young sons to Tokyo. We expected to be there for three or four months. We ended up staying in Japan and Malaysia for nearly four years. We traveled frequently in China, Indonesia, Thailand, South […]
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Read MoreFrom Reporters Home section on Xici.net, translated by CDT: A car killing spree claimed the lives of a newly-wed couple and injured another in Qingdao on the night of Nov. 26. But when local netizens logged onto online forums to check out the latest and tried to post comments, they found their accounts soon to […]
Read MoreFrom buchimifan blog (in Chinese), translated by Joel Martinsen, via Danwei blog: CNR is China National Radio. At 8pm on 18 November, the nine stations of China National Radio suddenly cut off, and the break lasted for 40 minutes. Reportedly, this is the largest radio broadcasting accident in the history of New China; leaders and […]
Read MoreFrom New Beijing Daily (Êñ∞‰∫¨Êä•), translated by CDT: The spirit of harmony should surpass the spirit of antagonism, which is embedded in the three traditional generations of human rights, and will breed a new generation of human rights, harmony rights (ÂíåË∞êÊùÉ), said Xu Xianming (ÂæêÊòæÊòé), a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s […]
Read MoreA migrant worker patting his sleeping child on a tricycle, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Danwei and ESWN, translations of Chinese blogger’ reactions to Thomas Friedman’s recent visit to China: New York Times rock star columnist Thomas Friedman has just concluded a speaking tour of China to promote the Chinese language edition of his book. It seems that Chinese journalists and media people are getting a little tired of […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: A new homegrown wireless standard, TD-SCDMA, is being rolled out in time for the Beijing Olympics. Will it win gold or create headaches for global players? China has been a holdout in joining the world of next-generation mobile telephony, while consumers in Seoul and Tokyo enjoy blistering network speeds, greater voice capacity, and […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A witness who claimed he was coerced into testifying against a blind Chinese activist has been taken away by local police on the eve of a retrial of the case, the activist’s lawyer said Sunday. Chen Gengjiang testified in the case of Chen Guangcheng, who was sentenced to four years in prison after […]
Read MoreFrom www.chinaview.cn: By the end of the first half of this year, China’s netizens totaled 123 million, and those under the age of 18, 18.3 million, accounting for 14.9 percent of the total. “The Internet has become an important facility in Chinese youth’s daily life,” an official with the Central Committee of the Communist Youth […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Explosions in two coal mines at opposite ends of China have killed at least 53 workers and injured many more. A gas explosion on Saturday in Jixi, in Heilongjiang province in the north-east, killed 21 miners, said the official news agency Xinhua. A few hours later, a similar explosion killed 32 miners in […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Everyone from Hollywood to Congress has been pressing China to get serious about the illegal use of music, movies and software. Now, it has picked a crackdown target: karaoke. If royalties were collected in China, the music industry could make as much as $375 million a year from karaoke parlors. […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: On the shores of this resort destination on China’s Hainan Island, where daytime temperatures at this time of year range from 75 to 85 degrees, many beachgoers traditionally sit on the sand under umbrellas — and fully clothed — to avoid the sun. But increasingly found among Sanya’s umbrellas these […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for following information: Tibet (that is traditional Tibet — the Qinghai – Tibet plateau region) already supplies about one-quarter (down from nearly one half several decades ago according to some studies) of the Yellow River which originates on the Qinghai Tibet plateau. This issue ties into the water shortages, […]
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