From Reuters: Being a reporter is the third most dangerous occupation in China, the official Xinhua news agency said, second only to miners and policemen. “An increasing number of reporters are obstructed, scolded, even beaten during interviews,” Xinhua said in a late-night report seen on Thursday. To help journalists injured on the job, a hospital […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, news that Margaret Chan has been named head of the World Health Organization, making her the first Chinese person to head a U.N. agency: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday nominated China’s Margaret Chan, its top official on bird flu, as its new chief as it gears up for a feared flu […]
Read MoreResearch-China.org has posted a translation of an article in Fenghuang Weekly about human trafficking through orphanages in Hunan Province. This translation is the second in a series of reports about the scandal. The first article is available here. From the second installment: The mother of Duan Meilin, Chen Yejin, had previously worked at a welfare […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: IBM, the computer services company, has reportedly been named in court documents in China that have emerged from the corruption trial of a senior Chinese banker. Zhang Enzhao, former chairman of China Construction Bank, one of the country’s “big five” lenders, was jailed for 15 years last week after being convicted of […]
Read MoreJiangxi province…is facing a difficult dilemma between economic development and environmental protection. In this dilemma, environmental regulators also face a problem – of which “buttock” to sit on. The Songhua River disaster, last November, pointed to the conflicts of interests that cripple environmental regulators at the grass-roots. Top domestic publications gave bird’s eye glimpses of […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: As the November 8 China Journalist’s Day approaches, expect Chinese media to stake out their positions along a spectrum of press roles and positions on professionalism, from party promoters to party watchdogs to independent voices. Party notions like “guidance of public opinion” should face off against gutsier perceptions of the media’s […]
Read MoreFrom South African daily newspaper Business Day: LAST weekend, China’s President Hu Jintao hosted more than 40 African leaders in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where all grand occasions of state and those of the Communist Party are held. All African countries except the five that recognise Taiwan were represented at what […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Weekend, translated by ESWN: Several tens of millions of Chinese bloggers are concerned about the fate of their blogs. On October 31, this reporter learned that the real-name blogger registration system is about to enter on the agenda list of the Ministry of Information Industry. This means that there is a chance that […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential Blog: China’s official Xinhua news agency today quoted a senior government official as saying the number of protests and riots by discontented Chinese citizens dropped by more than 20 percent in the first nine months of 2006. Liu Jinguo, who is vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, reportedly told a […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Since China put the European Union on its list of approved tourist destinations two years ago, the volume of Chinese sightseers to the Continent has surged, and France is their top destination… “How to accommodate the growth of visitors is something that’s on everyone’s mind, and the Chinese are a […]
Read MoreFrom Uganda’s The Monitor, an African view of the recent China-Africa summit held in Beijing: While the Sino-Africa relationship is supposed to be more “brotherly” and equal than with what the continent has had with the West for the last 120 years, the body language in Beijing suggests that we are continuing the relationship of […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeek: Two emerging economic powers, two very different machines. Will the future be an “arc of prosperity” or a jobs battleground? When it comes to both China and India, the superlatives come fast and furious. Each one is a fast-track developing economy with vast potential for the decades ahead. India is the fabled […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China will surpass the United States in 2009, nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions, as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming, the International Energy Agency has concluded in a report to be released Tuesday. China’s rise, fueled heavily by coal, is particularly troubling to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: President Chen Shui-bian admitted Sunday that he submitted false receipts for reimbursement from public funds and lied to prosecutors about how he spent the money, but said he had done so in the interest of national security. The president, who twice won elections advocating steps toward formal independence from mainland […]
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