From Associated Press via Houston Chronical: Water supplies to 28,000 people in northern China have been cut after an overturned truck spilled 33 tons of toxic oil into a river, state media said Wednesday, the latest mishap involving the country’s already polluted waterways. The overloaded truck was carrying wash oil, also known as creosote, when […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s control of the Internet stirred controversy at the first global Internet governance forum on Tuesday when a rights group accused western firms of providing Chinese police with technology to limit web freedom. Reporters without Borders, a press freedom group, said sales by major U.S. companies to China had bolstered Beijing’s capabilities of […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes: With pressure groups and rising costs making it difficult for Western pharmaceutical firms to expand their animal testing laboratories at home, Glenn Rice has pioneered outsourcing of this work to China. Rice, 50, is the decorous chief executive of Bridge Pharmaceuticals, a contract research organization in the San Francisco Bay area. He splits […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: A new Web portal that aims to help China’s 150 million migrant workers find jobs, training, legal help and social activities is winning backing from officials anxious about social stability in a breakneck economy. Hangzhou-based Xiao Kewen, 29, is an up-and-coming entrepreneur whose Web portal, Sinomen (Chinese), has grown from a […]
Read MoreHusband giving a hand to his wife in Ningbo, via fengniao.com.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Despite its rising power and wealth, China may not be willing or ready to play a responsible role in an international system aimed at encouraging peace and stability, a commission set up by Congress said in a report released yesterday. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission accused China of failing “to meet […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The Chinese rolled out the red carpet for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Rowan Williams – the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion – arrived at churches, schools and seminaries, to be greeted with flowers, choirs and delegations of officials and church leaders. But among the ordinary people, municipal politicians, church leaders […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth blog: Much ado is made about the dearth of creativity in Asia as compared to the rest of the world. I tend to see things as remarkably creative especially in light of resources available to the common citizens in poorer areas. Here are some great examples, via slide show, of necessity indeed being […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Beijing has passed its first law targeting money-laundering, a sign of the government’s growing concern over the pervasiveness of financial crime. China’s legislature on Tuesday adopted the law, which is expected to go into effect on January 1, according to Xinhua news service. The legislation details the many forms of money laundering, […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: An appeals court in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong has overturned the guilty verdict against leading rights activist Chen Guangcheng, sending the case back to the county-level court for a retrial. “I got a call this afternoon from the Yinan county court telling me that the Intermediate People’s Court in […]
Read MoreCDT ChinaCast is a podcast series of short and informal conversations with journalists, business people, artists and others doing interesting work in China. For the initial series, China Digital Times bloggers will interview...
Read More…I cannot imagine that in fifteen years, I could manage not to ever visit the adoptive mother who reared me from a young age. Or that after becoming the supreme leader of the country, that I would not go in person to sweep the graves of my own father and mother, and instead would have […]
Read MoreWhen the sun rises, it shines first on the East. It doesn’t shine on the East and the West at once. That’s another scientific observation from ex-Shanghai party secretary Cheng Liangyu, according to a memo purporting to be the Xinhua news agency’s internal collection of some of his most self-compromising remarks. See Biganzi’s previous post […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via The International Herald Tribune: Billboards of elephants, giraffes and sweeping African savannas are covering Beijing high-rises. Police have had holidays canceled to help ease gridlock in the capital. Conference centers are being carpeted with grass. Beijing is making unusually lavish efforts to welcome leaders and officials from 48 African nations […]
Read MoreFrom CNET News.com: Chinese government official draws incredulous stares at U.N. summit when denying that the Great Firewall of China exists. While many countries block off some Web sites, China has long drawn heightened scrutiny because of the breadth and sophistication of its Internet censorship. Which is why it came as a surprise on Tuesday […]
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