What’s really puzzling, at least on the surface, in some villages around some Chinese cities or towns is political candidates are offering significant cash gifts to buy votes. In one village in Inner Mongolia, villagers are receiving cash deliveries ranging from 500 to 1,000 yuan per ballot from each candidate. But as the land appreciates […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have formally arrested top civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong, and a fellow activist says his former colleague and boss Gao Zhisheng has also been formally arrested. Guo’s wife Zhang Qing confirmed the arrest, on suspicion of “running an illegal business’, but told reporters […]
Read MoreWhich country is the most bribe-dirty in the world? You guessed it. Anti-corruption group Transparency International, according to BBC News, says there is one more: India also joins China as the worst (photo: 1998 ranking of competitiveness and corruption): Firms from China and India are most willing to pay bribes abroad to do business, a […]
Read MoreFrom ITV: China has called for restraint after North Korea announced it is planning to test a nuclear bomb, a move the US said would threaten world peace. (Picture: Reuters) “We hope that North Korea will exercise necessary calm and restraint over the nuclear test issue,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. Mr Liu […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: As a celebration of National Day, the CCTV in China is now showing a 36 episodes 3-D Cartoon “Devil soldiers in Mao-er Mountain” (Â∏ΩÂÖí±±ÁöÑȨºÂ≠êÂÖµ)in October. The cartoon was produced by a company in Heilongjiang and selected by the National boardcast bureau in Dongbei area (North east China) as one of the […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Some economic booms grind to a halt, others run out of steam, but in China the biggest risk is that growth will dry up. Water, the country’s scarcest resource, is running out. Pollution, waste and over-exploitation have combined with the expansion of mega-cities to foul up wells and suck rivers dry. Signs […]
Read MoreHuman rights activists holding up a banner in a protest over China’s violations
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Read MoreWell known that China is a big time exporter of cheap goods, but it is also an insatiable importer and global scouter of energy and resources. And no wonder China’s Finance Ministry, working with other central planners, is pursuing means and technologies, and giving big money too, for alternative energy that can spare China from […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When Shanghai’s party boss was detained in an anticorruption probe last week, Chinese were rattled by news of the first purge of a high-ranking Communist Party leader since 1995. But the investigation’s scope and its ultimate goals are wider, as the party’s two most powerful officials aim to shake up […]
Read MoreChina, a country with a five-thousand-year civilized history, is teaching its citizens how to behave. Two administrations issued two regulations demanding that Chinese pay attention to everyday etiquette and hygiene while travelling abroad and within the country. According to Xinhua, the Civilization Office with the Spiritual Civilization Steering Committee and the National Tourism Administration jointly […]
Read MorePhotos from Xinhua about how people are enjoying, or not, the National Day holiday, also known as a seven-day golden week, where millions upon millions of Chinese tour the country: Here, a young man jumps over a rail divider between the two ways of traffic around Guanqian Street (ËßÇÂâçË°ó) in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. See […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Pundits are predicting that the 2008 Olympics will be the most spectacular in the history of the Games as it brings together the cultures of East and West under one banner in a city eager to reach out to the world. The IOC almost falls over itself with praise for the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph Blogs: To Lusaka, the sleepy capital of Zambia, where the wide streets are lined with blossoming jacaranda trees. …… But if you happen to be Chinese, the story is very different. China has invested about 300 million dollars in Zambia, mainly in the copper mining sector. The Chinese are deeply unpopular and stand […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press, via The Boston Globe: More than 50 leading scholars and rights campaigners from the United States, Europe, and Australia have issued a rare public protest of Chinese policies, sending an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to stop the harassment of human rights activists. The Sept. 29 open letter posted […]
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