Sometimes the peanut galleries on Chinese news portals can be spot-on. Days prior to Chen Liangyu’s downfall last week, even some some ordinary Netizens could tell which way the wind was blowing in Shanghai. Here’s one example: On September 20, five days before the Shanghai party boss was dismissed, Xian’s Huashang Bao picked up a […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: Recently, I read somewhere a study in which it was reported that 95% of convicted corrupt government/party officials were found to keep mistresses (one or more). So when Shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu fell from grace, it is natural to ask: How many mistresses? And who are they? The first rumor referred […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: A population expert has called on lawmakers to make it a criminal offence to identify the sex of an embryo for non-medical purposes and also to outlaw abortions that are not medically justified. Wei Jinsheng, a researcher with the China Population and Development Research CentreÔºà‰∏≠ÂõΩ‰∫∫Âè£Âèë±ïÁ†îÁ©∂‰∏≠ÂøÉÔºâ, said in an article published in the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, an article about the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of First Emperor by Zhang Yimou and Tan Dun: Normally for a new production the Met allows one week in the summer for technical rehearsals ” no orchestra, no singers ” to test the set and design the lighting before standard rehearsals begin. […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Philadelphia Daily News: Zhang Ziyi burst onto the scene in 2000 with her spirited portrayal of a kung fu-kicking woman who has a passionate affair with a bandit and steals a precious sword in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Through a wide range of roles and work with top Chinese and foreign directors, […]
Read MoreFrom NewsWeek International: The ouster of Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu last week could have come straight out of a Hollywood mafia flick. The frictions between the bumptious Chen and President Hu Jintao began more than two years ago”sparked by corruption concerns in Shanghai and serious philosophical differences between the two men over economic […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The total number of people who will be displaced by China’s massive Three Gorges Dam has been raised by 270,000, to 1.4 million people, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday quoted Pu HaiqingÔºàËí≤ʵ∑Ê∏ÖÔºâ, head of the Cabinet-level Three Gorges Project Construction CommitteeÔºà‰∏âÂ≥°Â∑•Á®ãª∫ËÆæÂßîÂëò‰ºöÂäûÂÖ¨ÂƧ‰∏ª‰ªªÔºâ, as saying that total would be reached […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the Wall Street Journal: A Taiwanese prosecutor indicted two businessmen for breach of trust, but cleared the wife of President Chen Shui-bian of involvement in a scandal surrounding the takeover of an upscale department store. The opposition has accused first lady Wu Shu-chen of accepting free vouchers from the management of Sogo […]
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Read MoreFrom chinaelections.org; translated by Michael Huang: Editor’s Note: Wang Changjiang is a reform minded scholar who works at the Central Party School in Beijing. This article appears in a local Beijing newspaper, not in the journal of Seeking Truth where Sheng Huaren, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, described elections in China […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu killed 985 chickens in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia(ÂÜÖËíôÂè§Ôºâ, a state news agency reported Saturday. The discovery in a village near the city of Baotou(ÂåÖ§¥Ôºâprompted authorities to destroy 8,990 other chickens to prevent the virus from spreading, the Xinhua News Agency […]
Read MoreSeems the propaganda-meisters weren’t the only ones issuing gag orders over coverage of the knockout of Shanghai’s top cadre a week ago. Caijing magazine did too. Back in August and early September, as Beijing’s investigators tried to get to the bottom off the pension fund scandal, the financial magazine’s reporters kept remarkably in stride with […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek, an article about the use of podcasting technology to distribute banned information in China: China has tried hard to keep Han Dongfang from communicating with the Chinese people. The democracy activist was jailed for 22 months and then forced to leave the mainland for organizing protests associated with the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China has established a new system to keep track of land use in a bid to curb runaway investment and protect the interests of farmers. The State Council, China’s cabinet, has authorized the Ministry of Land and Resources /ÂõΩÂúü˵ÑÊ∫êÈÉ®(MLR) to supervise and overhaul land use and management by local governments, Vice-Premier Zeng […]
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