From Reuters: Chinese statisticians have a national duty not to produce fake figures, the country’s top number-cruncher said in remarks published on Monday. Xie Fuzhan, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said statisticians should not bend their principles to please local officials or their bosses, the China Youth Daily reported. “Statisticians should be loyal […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A stampede on a stairwell at a middle school in eastern China killed six children and injured 11, state media said Monday. The stampede occurred Saturday night when hundreds of first-grade students at Tutang Middle School in Jiangxi province’s Duchang County (ʱüË•øÈÉΩÊòåÂéøÂúü°òÈïá‰∏≠Â≠¶) swarmed out of their evening classes, the China Daily newspaper said. […]
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Read MoreFrom AP: There are about 30 wrongful convictions in China each year due to confessions extracted by police torture, but the number of unreported cases is likely higher, state media reported Monday, citing an official. Wang Zhenchuan ” vice procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s highest prosecutor’s office ” said on average 30 unjust […]
Read MoreOn the New York Times website, Jim Yardley reports both in print and on video about the crisis facing the Yellow River: The source of the Yellow River, itself the water source for 140 million people in a country of about 1.3 billion, is in crisis, as scientists warn that the glaciers and underground water […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: When Hu Jintao arrives in India on Monday it will mark the start of the first visit here by a Chinese president in a decade. It’s a measure of how relations between the two Asian giants have been captive to years of mistrust, mutual suspicion and rivalry. But a growing trade relationship […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A tense stand-off in a Chinese village has ended after police freed eight officials held hostage by angry residents for nine days, reports say. Residents of Dongzhou in southern Guangdong province seized the officials following the arrest of anti-corruption activist Chen Qian. Eyewitnesses said police stormed a temple where the hostages were […]
Read MoreFrom India Times: Like his father and grandfather before him, Abul Hussein rose at midnight to paddle his boat into the oily mid-current of the mighty Brahmaputra River. He cast his nets until dawn, when he took his haul of catfish, eel and trout to market in Guwahati, the capital of India’s northeastern state of […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Chinese automobile market still may not be big enough to support homegrown manufacturers and foreign automakers. China is passing Japan as the world’s second-largest vehicle market this year, with sales soaring for cars of every size and shape. But the Chinese market still may not be big enough to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Where the West sees a new need for reform, Beijing sees nothing but resources and opportunity. Four or five miles along the asphalt road that runs east from Kaala, a small town in central Angola, a Chinese construction company has carved an unexpected right turn, a broad dirt path that […]
Read MoreWe’ve read much in the Chinese press about students who email-order theses and professors plagiarizing colleagues. We’ve also read a lot of stories about what companies pay for positive exposure. Cross those two problems and, presto, the pages of many scholarly journals in China today are, apparently, for sale. According to a probe last week […]
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Read MoreFrom CRI via China.org: Young Chinese classical piano sensation Li Yundi(Êùé‰∫ëËø™), the “successor of romantic pianist masters,” has released his new album, “Chopin, Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1.” The album includes Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, Li’s signature piece that helped him win the prestigious International Chopin Competition in 2000 at 18, becoming the youngest-ever […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: One of the art works you won’t be seeing at the Beijing human rights exhibition is Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of an iconic guy, Chairman Mao. The painting found a new owner at a Christie’s auction: Andy Warhol‘s sensational portrait of Mao Zedong, considered a landmark of 20th century art, was sold to […]
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