Cheng Wen-tsang, the minister of the government information office in the Republic of China (Taiwan) wrote this OP-ED on iol.co.za: North Korea’s recent missile test has raised grave concerns for countries in East Asia. In passing Resolution 1695, the United Nations security council affirmed the principle that any provocative act that threatens to destabilise regional […]
Read MoreChina Daily’s website ran an article from Channelnewsasia about talk show host Lang Xianping, who says he was forced off the air while preparing a show about the Chen Liangyu scandal: One of China’s most popular television hosts says he was forced off the air by just-fired Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu because he […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports on the closure of schools for the kids of migrant workers in Beijing: Standing in the ruins of the school he founded seven years ago to educate the children of Beijing’s migrant workforce, Wang Yi seems at a loss for words. His feet crunch on pulverized concrete and nuggets of […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: As he promotes Western-style notions of governance in China, Thornton faces a business culture in transition. The government, run by the Communist party, still controls a vast swath of the economy and has no intention of giving up its control ” particularly in strategic industries such as telecommunications. The government owns […]
Read MoreFrom the China Elections and Governance website: These days it does not need a pundit to tell us that corruption, if not controlled, is a serious matter endangering China’s stability and long-term economic development. Barely a day goes by without hearing a corruption scandal erupting here or there. All told, the Chinese Communist Party in […]
Read MoreTo mark the 30th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, Beijing Review asked three scholars to discuss Mao’s legacy: China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, caused an estimated one million unnatural deaths, writes the reviewer Judith Shapiro. It is widely viewed as one of history’s most horrific political cataclysms. Yet there […]
Read MoreSomebody got Propaganda’s blood up last week. We’d like to know who. At a Central Publicity Department (CPD) meeting with senior editors on the eve of the October 1 holiday, a deputy propaganda chief fingered one particular publication for taking an independent stab at news of Shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu’s firing, according to a […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: China still faces serious shortcomings in its bird flu prevention preparations and government departments must do better ahead of the autumn season, a vice agriculture minister (ÂÜú‰∏öÈɮԺâsaid on Thursday. “At present, the bird flu virus situation in our country is generally stable, but as we go into the peak outbreak season in […]
Read MoreThe 6th Plenary Session of 16th CPC Central Committee Conference will be held on Oct 8 in Beijing. The conference will release the investigation report on Chen Liangyu, former CPC Shanghai chief who was sacked for economic scandals, said Taiwan newspaper United Daily (ËÅîÂêàÊä•). The meeting will also decide Chen’s sentence. The meeting will determine […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China marked Friday’s Moon Festival by announcing 30 songs to be broadcast to Earth next year from its first lunar-probing satellite. …The songs were chosen according to public votes and by a panel of experts, organized by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense(ÂõΩÈò≤ÁßëÂ∑•ÂßîÔºâÔºå Central Television Ôºà‰∏≠§ÆÁîµËßÜÂè∞Ôºâand the China Musicians’ […]
Read MoreZhou Zhengyi, a former Shanghai property tycoon who just completed a three-year sentence in May, is under house arrest in Shanghai, Hong Kong magazine Ya Zhou Zhou Kan said. Zhou had been managing to obtain visas to southern American countries, the magazine said. Zhou almost made his way to south America before he was detained […]
Read MoreMore than 300 hundred investigators from the Discipline Inspection Central Committee have been stationed in Beijing, ready to launch a full investigation into the possible corruption of Beijing officials, Hong Kong magazine Ya Zhou Zhou Kan reported. The magazine said the investigation is one of a series of anti-corruption campaigns Hu Jingtao kicked off to […]
Read MoreReuters and the Chinese newspaper Yan Zhao Metropolis through their reports all point out that, “China has the most dangerous roads in the world, with accidents killing almost 100,000 people last year, or about 270 a day.” From Reuters: ……China has the most dangerous roads in the world, with accidents killing almost 100,000 people last […]
Read MoreChen Liangyu visiting Qingpu District education bureau via qp.edu.sh.cn
Read MoreFrom AP: In his furniture shop across the road from a war memorial, in a city where the bad memories are kept alive and raw, Shen Tao doesn’t mince words. “We hate Japan,” the furniture dealer said, jabbing the air with a cigarette for emphasis. “It doesn’t really much matter what the Japanese government does. […]
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