Despite the anticorruption action has been taken in Shanghai and Beijing, more action is also taken in local area of China. AP has reported the corruption case of two CEOs from big airlines of Shanghai, and China Daily has reported about Anhui’s provincial former senior judge’s bribery case, read more as following: From China Daily: […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China Daily: A Beijing lawyer who defends the rights of “er nai (‰∫å•∂),” or mistresses, might need some defense for himself. Four months ago, Zheng Baichun ÈÉëÁôæÊò• set up a Website (http://www.2n88.com/) offering legal advice to women in relationships with married men. Over 100 mistresses have asked for his help. […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaren: This group of photos has spread online in China recently. Many people posted comments like these: “Chinese should blush.” “I am not saying that I worship the West, but the behavior of some Chinese are shameful.” “If this happens during 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, we’re gonna lose face.” “It is sad that […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Taipei Times: China plans to build a 60 billion yuan (US$7.5 billion) nuclear power plant in a central province, adding to a boom in its nuclear power industry, a news report said yesterday. The latest plant is planned for Yueyang, Hunan Province, but no construction date has been set, the official Xinhua […]
Read MoreESWN translated an essay in Southern Metropolis News by Lian Yue about blog real name registration: It is said that on the Chinese Internet, the ratio of current affairs among all topics is among the world leaders. Every Chinese person is a political commentator. And the degree of volatility of their speeches (and the number […]
Read MoreFrom Three Gorges Probe: China’s minister of water resources has poured cold water on the plan to build 13 dams on the Nu River in the southwest of the country, calling the proposal a form of “predatory development.” In a speech Tuesday [Oct. 24] at the University of Hong Kong, Wang Shucheng indicated high-level disapproval […]
Read MoreFrom Wenxuecity: Hu Jintao‘s “8 Honors & 8 Disgraces” lanched in March has been big in Chinese press. A contest named “National 8 Honors & 8 Disgraces Evening Paper Hundred Awards” started in April 15 and closed on Sept.15. More than 70 evening papers entered the contest with about 15,000 photos. The following are the […]
Read MoreFrom The China in Transition blog: More than half of the vehicles belonging to government agencies, military units and state-owned companies in Beijing are ordered to be kept at home from Nov.1 to Nov.6, when the China-Africa Cooperation Conference will be held, Beijing Evening News reported. Meanwhile, many roads in Beijing will be blocked, and […]
Read MoreSouhouxiaobao posted an article from Hong Kong magazine Dongxiang on a report that the Central Committee for Discipline Inspection recently submitted to the central Party leaders. It’s the fourth report on the Shanghai corruption Investigation. Please note that CDT has not yet been able to independently confirm the charges in the Dongxiang report, but it […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A widening Chinese anti-corruption inquiry has targeted Beijing’s party leaders, in a sign that President Hu Jintao intends to continue removing officials he considers insufficiently loyal, people told about the leadership’s planning said. Some 300 Communist Party investigators have been examining property deals and procurement practices in the capital since […]
Read MoreThe Independent provides another update on the shooting of Tibetan refugees fleeing to Nepal earlier this month: A few minutes of jerky video footage shot by a Romanian cameraman on a mountaineering trip brought the plight of Tibetans under Chinese rule into Western living rooms this month. For once, the world was able to watch […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times reports on the upcoming China-Africa summit to be held in Beijing next week, which about 40 heads of African states are slated to attend: China said Thursday that all 48 African countries invited to the two-day summit next week would send representatives, with most confirming their heads of state would attend. The […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s CITIC Group, a diversified state-owned investment vehicle with few oil interests, furthered Beijing’s drive for overseas energy assets on Thursday with the $1.9 billion purchase of a large Kazakh field. It has agreed to buy the Kazakh oil assets of Canada-based Nations Energy Co Ltd., the cornerstone of which is the Karazhanbas […]
Read MoreIt’s not a bad day for Chinese journalists, relatively speaking, when they can run their own personal horror stories about getting harassed. In the past day, the horror story they’ve been talking about is Liu Wanyong’s. Liu, an investigative reporter for the China Youth Daily’s watchdog supplement Freezing Point, got a quite a fright on […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Chinese TV viewers may see an all-boy singing contest next year since this year’s “Super Girl” pulled in nearly 100 million yuan (US$12.66 million) in profit, Shanghai Morning Post said. “Super Boy,” if approved, would be conducted at the same period as its ally “Super Girl,” from next May to September, Wang […]
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