From China Daily: A man was looking for buyers to sell his six-year old son to fund his wife’s kidney failure treatment in Zhuhai Square, Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong Province on October 24, wrote the Guangzhou Daily Wednesday. “If my wife passes away, she will never come back, but we can bring back […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press: China plans to build a 60 billion yuan (US$7.5 billion; ‚Ǩ6 billion) nuclear power plant in a central province, adding to a boom in its nuclear power industry, a news report said Thursday. The latest plant is planned for Yueyang, a city in Hunan province, but no construction date has been […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Local government abuses have created an underclass of petitioners who seek redress in Beijing. They arrive from distant villages and towns in groups of five or less, eyes downcast as they approach the entrance to the walled compound. Many wear the drab bulky clothes of China’s hardscrabble countryside, and their […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press via The Wall Street Journal: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and General Electric Co.’s finance arm are joining the race for a share of China’s growing consumer-credit market by launching their own credit card this week, a Wal-Mart spokesman said Tuesday. The card is to be formally launched on Friday but the companies began […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A veteran of China’s 1989 pro-democracy movement was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after writing Internet essays critical of the communist government, a monitoring center said. Li Jianping(Êùéª∫Âπ≥Ôºâ was convicted of subversion by a court in the eastern city of Zibo in Shandong province, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Thousands of university students rioted in eastern China this week, officials and students said on Wednesday, as the police chief called for greater efforts to tame rising unrest. Students from Jiangxi province’s Clothing Vocational CollegeÔºàʱüË•øÊúçË£ÖÊäÄÊúØÂ≠¶Èô¢Ôºâ marched through campus on Monday after state media reported that school authorities had deceived new students about their […]
Read MoreFollowing The Wall Street Journal’s comments, China Should Allow North Korean Refugees to Stay, Financial Times expressed its view on North Korean refugees. China must stop hindering the flow of North Koreans seeking to escape hunger and poverty in the world’s most isolated country, while other world powers should back up their tough resolutions with […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At the editorial meeting at the influential newspaper Beijing Youth Daily, the morning news list is put together without too much discussion. The editorial team already know the most important stories to include, thanks to the government’s powerful news agency, Xinhua. ……. Li Datong, the former editor of a high-profile magazine, Freezing […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s leaders have hauled in 450 of the nation’s media chiefs to order them to more closely toe the government line and step up their allegiance to the Communist Party, state press said on Wednesday. Chinese President Hu Jintao and other party leaders, including propaganda czar Li Changchun, met with the media chiefs […]
Read MoreFrom PTI: China will ban graffiti and driving on the 6,700 km Great Wall, as part of measures to protect the ancient wonder. A regulation, promulgated by the State Council, Chinese Cabinet, forbids taking soil or bricks from the Great Wall, planting trees, carving on the wall or building anything on the wall that is […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Lhasa have detained two Tibetans and one Nepalese ethnic Sherpa for allegedly escorting Tibetan asylum-seekers from China into India. The detentions on Oct. 9 and 10 follow an incident on Sept. 30 in which Chinese guards opened fire on a group of Tibetans fleeing across the rugged border […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: A group of Renmin University pretty women took crazy photos of themselves at their graduation ceremony and they are being bitterly criticized by netizens. Foul language such as “whores,” “prostitutes,” “strumpets” have been used against these women. In actual terms, these photographs are imaginative. They are the most daring and most […]
Read MoreOn the recent hot topic blog real name registration, the Beijing-based technology blogger Keso wrote on his Playin’ with IT – DonewsBlog (translated by CDT): Many people say, management (of the society) is a form of art. That’s nonsense. The most direct, straightforward management (like the blog real name registration), is not art, not even […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: December 11 is the fifth anniversary of China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation and the deadline for Beijing to fulfil its final commitments. These include opening up retail banking to foreign banks for the first time. In preparation, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) in August circulated draft Administrative Measures for […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily, via Zhejiang Online: A special police cavalry task force has been established in Guangzhou’s Baiyun District to tackle street crime in the southern metropolis in the following months. The police cavalry task force, consisting of more than 100 armed police, has been equipped with advanced police motorcycles and cars. Defensively, they […]
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