Reporters’ Home section at Xici.net ran a group of photos capturing Fan Zhiyi, captain of China’s national soccer team and a Mr. Football Asia, joining his teammates during a training session in beating and kicking a stadium worker who, ignorant of the training schedule, was watering the grass on the training turf. (The resolution of […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an article that appeared on Chinese News Net, with the following explanation: “This essay was originally scheduled to be published in the September 28, 2006 issue of Southern Weekend but was withdrawn for some reason. There is no explanation about how the essay then ended up on an overseas Chinese website.”: Under […]
Read MoreFrom The Power and Interest News Report (PINR): The National Defense University (N.D.U.) of the People’s Liberation Army (P.L.A.) is China’s foremost military education institution. An average of 1,000 Chinese officers graduate every year in diverse fields of study. For many years after its founding in 1984, the N.D.U. has been relatively unknown to the […]
Read MoreA policeman driving a tractor in a village in Shenyang, via www.50mm.cn
Read MoreLast month, angry Internet protest shut down plans for China’s first auction of hunting license quotas on suspicion the auction was money-making venture by the State Forestry Administration that didn’t take into account ecological protection. Having heard from the public, the SFA is now planning to go ahead with the auction, arguing that an increase […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China’s government allowed the country’s currency to rise in value past the level of 7.9 to the dollar for the first time today, reaching another in a series of daily highs. Though it has not said so publicly, the government evidently has decided to permit the currency, considered around the […]
Read MoreDirector of the General Office of the CPC Shanghai Committee Sun Luyi(Â≠ôË∑؉∏Ä) is under investigation on serious discipline violations. This was just another aftershock since Chen Liangyu(ÈôàËâØÂÆá), former chief of CPC Shanghai Committee, was disciplined this Monday. The whole city is in turmoil as the corruption probe deepens. Here is a list of officials and […]
Read MoreLast week, Foreign Policy published an interview with Li Wufeng, the director-general of China’s State Council Information Office (SCIO), the agency in charge of regulating Internet content inside China. The Foreign Policy...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, a report on the harassment of independent candidates running for local People’s Congress positions: The polls closed at noon and by 2 p.m. Yao Lifa was hunkered down inside a restaurant with a group of first-time candidates, waiting to hear who had been elected to their local assembly. Mr. Yao […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Scientists on Thursday carried out China’s first successful test of an experimental fusion reactor, powered by the process that fuels the sun, a research institute spokeswoman said. China, the United States and other governments are pursuing fusion research in hopes that it could become a clean, potentially limitless energy source. Fusion produces little […]
Read MoreFormer actors from the soap opera Dream of the Red Mansions recently started their own blogs on Sina Web. Almost 20 years after the show was first produced, many people are still very interested in the stories, how the actors were chosen for the soap opera, and how the former actors make a living today. […]
Read MoreFrom DefenseNews.com: China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources. It remains unclear how many times the ground-based laser was tested against U.S. spacecraft or whether it was successful. But the combination of […]
Read MoreOne day after two officials were disciplined for land misuse, China’s central government ordered top-level investigations into property markets in a dozen cities and provinces, including three municipalities: Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. China has released a large number of regulations and laws to curb the escalating property prices, but few were seriously enforced. From Associated […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government said Wednesday that it had disciplined two officials for illegally seizing farmland, two days after it removed the party chief of Shanghai on corruption charges. The actions, coming little more than a week before a key Chinese Communist Party meeting, have prompted speculation that President Hu Jintao […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeek Online: A new report tries to quantify the country’s colossal pollution problem. One estimate puts just the initial cost at $135 billion. Just how costly is China’s environmental mess? The working assumption is that the situation is somewhere between really bad and off-the-charts ghastly. Yet getting a real statistical grip on the […]
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