Mark Magnier reports for the LA Times on government pressures on Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang Province: Powered by a good set of lungs and lots of practice, the cleric belts out the afternoon call to prayer. Despite his best efforts, the chant is all but drowned out by the din of a single-stroke tractor engine […]
Read MoreThe probe into the Shanghai pension fund scandal keeps on yielding handy political dividends for China’s top leaders, and in particular, for the tough diet they’re trying to enforce to curb the state’s building bulge. First the party Feds busted Shanghai’s free-spending boss, Chen Liangyu. Now they’ve nailed the rather laissez-faire reformist who kept the […]
Read MoreFrom Virtual China: Lu Xun is revered in China as the father of modern Chinese literature, and was similar to Mark Twain in his ability to skewer the morals and politics of the day (early 20th century China) through devilishly drawn characters, satire, and brilliant language. A few of those characters, Ah Q in particular, […]
Read MoreFrom Daqi.com: At Pyongyang Railway Station, an anti-America sign reads “Get out! You don’t have the qualification to stay.” People bowing to the statue of Kim Il-sung, former leader of North Korea.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: With widespread online rumor saying China will implement a blog real name system, the Internet Society of China /‰∏≠ÂõΩ‰∫íËÅîÁΩëÂç艺ö(ISC) has clarified that so far the Ministry of Information Industry has not officially made any related policies. However, a real name system will be an unavoidable choice if China wants to standardize and develop […]
Read MoreFrom The Danwei Blog: “Corruption tours” including “Sanshandao Corrupt Leisure Trip”, “Classic Corruption Official Tour” and “Corruption Lunch” were recently advertised in a Shanghai newspaper by the Yingyun Trading Company of Hongkou district in a local newspaper. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: Energy-hungry China has discovered its second biggest natural gas field with an estimated reserves of over 150 billion cubic meters in Baichengin northwest Xinjiang. The giant natural gas field was found after 10 years of labour, which is the second biggest of its kind in China, after the No.2 gas field […]
Read MoreFrom The GuardianÔºö During Condoleezza Rice’s recent tour of north-east Asia to drum up support for the raft of sanctions that the UN security council has imposed on North Korea, China appeared to be both the weakest link but also the country with most leverage over Pyongyang. Yet relatively little is known about its approach […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Any day now, China’s foreign exchange reserves will reach the $1,000bn mark. That is one-fifth of the world’s re¬≠serves, an amount greater than Japan’s enormous holdings and more than the reserves of Germany, France, Italy and Canada combined. China’s cushion of cash and investments would finance more than a year’s worth of […]
Read MoreFrom Sina: The 6-day China Rock’n’roll Concert(‰∏≠ÂõΩÊëáʪö§߉ºö) started from Oct 1st at Zengcheng(¢ûÂüé) in Guangzhou. Approximately 30 bands from the Mainland, HongKongand Taiwan and 150,000 came. It is the most successful and the longest Rock’n’roll concert in South China. Many well-known bands performed and the audiences showed more interests to new bands. Well-known bands/singers: Zero […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: The head of the world’s Anglican church held a service in Beijing for the first time on Sunday and welcomed Christians playing a role in China in discussions on issues ranging from censorship to the death penalty. During his two-week visit, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had discussions with […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao appealed on Sunday to 70 million members of his ruling Communist Party to show solidarity, almost a month after ousting a political ally of predecessor Jiang Zemin. Hu made the call on Sunday in his first joint public appearance with Jiang since the September 24 dismissal of Chen Liangyu […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China is struggling to find a solution on how to treat the huge amount of floating debris which is clogging up the Three Gorges Reservoir. Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, said, “We are trying to find an efficient method to develop and […]
Read MoreWeek in Review from the New York Times: The corruption scandal in Shanghai that had already taken down one of China’s most powerful officials claimed two smaller scalps last week: the chief of the national statistics bureau was fired, and an official with the Formula One racing circuit was hauled in for qut by an […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s plan to double its presence in China will test whether failed adventures in Germany and South Korea have persuaded the world’s largest retailer to abandon corporate creationism in favor of Darwinism. Wal-Mart is considering paying about US$1 billion for Trust-Mart, a closely held chain of grocery and appliance […]
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