From Washington Post: A Beijing official denied reports that the city will expel migrant workers during the 2008 Olympics, but said the Chinese capital is considering how to keep the mentally ill from “damaging the public interest” during the Games. Chinese officials have promised that hosting the Olympics will improve the country’s respect for human […]
Read MoreFrom the Forum column of Beijing Review magazine, interestingly (downed) Shanghai’s top boss also pledged to fight corruption and graft during the swirling torrent of pension funds scandal: In mid-August in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, over 150 major officials of the city’s Baohe District attended a ceremony in the local memorial temple for Bao […]
Read MoreIt was said that one of the purposes to oust Chen Liangyu was to cool Shanghai’s economy, particularly the real estate sector. According to Apple Daily, echoing the central government’s policy of tightening the property market, local governments one after another released news about declining property prices. Shanghai’s property prices, which have been at their […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Plans to build a 20 billion yuan (2.5 billion U.S. dollars) replica of Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan(ÂúÜÊòéÂõ≠Ôºâ, known overseas as the Old Summer Palace, in East China have met fierce opposition from academics. Hengdian Social and Economic Federation(ʵôʱüÊ®™Â∫óÈõÜÂõ¢Ôºâ, who operates a complex featuring imitations of the Forbidden City and a Qin Dynasty palace often used […]
Read MoreA new wrinkle in the “China as Global Trash Receptacle” story from UK’s Daily Mail: “This is one of the most polluted towns in China – everyone who has come here says the same,” complains migrant worker Li Lengen, cradling his 18-month-old daughter as he sits beside a fly-blown pile of imported rubbish that represents […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The dish in front of me is grey and shiny. “Russian dog,” says my waitress Nancy. “Big dog,” I reply. “Yes,” she says. “Big dog’s penis…” We are in a cosy restaurant in a dark street in Beijing but my appetite seems to have gone for a stroll outside. Nancy has brought […]
Read MoreFrom ESWN blog: A group of mainlanders attacked two reporters from Hong Kong outside the Shenzhen Fuhua Hospital on Tuesday while the reporters were covering a compensation lawsuit over the hospital’s use of a toxic gel (PAAG) in breast enhancement. The reporters, from two Hong Kong television stations, were surrounded by at least 10 people […]
Read MoreDespite using a sometimes controversial technique of secretly filming a Tianjin hospital, a good story on China’s booming business of trading and exporting convicts’ organs, from BBC News (video here or here): The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found. The […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Casper Star Tribune: Environmentalists accused India and China in a stinging indictment Wednesday of doing almost nothing to stem the rapid decline of tigers in the wild, saying the big cats will likely vanish completely within a few years without government intervention. Trade in poached Indian tigers is flourishing across the border […]
Read MoreFrom Korea’s OhMyNews via Worldpress.org: China is becoming increasingly wary of the growing presence of foreign NGOs in the nation and warned against a “potential national threat” that may be posed by them. The “Study Times” (Â≠¶‰π†Êó∂Êä•), the official newspaper of the Central Party School of China’s Communist Party, recently ran a signed article by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China blasted Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Wednesday for a plan to change the constitution and rename the island, moves Beijing would consider a formal declaration of independence of territory it claims as its own. Chen’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is studying constitutional changes to name the […]
Read MoreState-run media continues its assault on polluters, picking up on the China Water Pollution Map story, via China Environmental News Digest: While China’s booming coastal cities are stepping up efforts to protect the environment, its inland provinces are producing more and more industrial waste. “Even though China’s coastal provinces are still the major source of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian, another article about the rejuvenation of Confucius’ legacy in China: It has taken almost 2,557 years, but the family tree of Confucius, the philosophical father of Asia’s male dominated society, is finally going to acknowledge women. Female descendants will be recognised in a new lineage chart of the Chinese sage’s family – […]
Read MoreA man accuses officials in Anhui of corruption in front of a courthouse in Beijing, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China.org: Shelters and health facilities are to be built in Beijing for the hundreds of thousands of stray animals wandering the streets of the capital, according to the city’s bureau of agriculture. A spokesman with the bureau, who declined to reveal his name, said they’d completed drafting a regulation on […]
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