From Financial Times: The Shanghai government was in turmoil on Tuesday as a corruption probe that prompted the dramatic sacking of the city’s leading official on Monday appeared to deepen. To prevent any suspects leaving the country, senior Shanghai officials were ordered to hand in their passports while an investigation into corruption at the city’s […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish.com: A CPC official on Tuesday for the first time explained a Chinese anti-corruption term, translated as “double designations”, which is used to question Party members being investigated for violating Party discipline. Gan Yisheng, secretary-general of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC said at a press conference that “double designations” means […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China said on Tuesday that shutting dozens of privately run schools for children of migrant workers in Beijing was meant for their protection, not to deny them education as stated by a U.S. human rights group. New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Beijing municipal authorities had shut down more than […]
Read MoreFrom Wenxuecity: This summer, Chongqing has encountered a serious drought. See how the people deal with the heat wave there: Art has its root in life: Beers and beans make people cooler.
Read MoreAn announcement from Xinhuanet: China is compiling a white paper on the its energy policies under the organization of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to inform overseas more about the energy development of the country. The white paper is under the joint compilation of the Energy Bureau and the Institute of Macro Economics, […]
Read MoreMore reports are coming out about the downfall of Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu. From Reuters: Are Shanghai’s days as the freewheeling, red-tape slashing golden boy of China’s economic boom coming to an end? The dismissal in a corruption probe of the city’s most powerful official, local Communist Party secretary Chen Liangyu, suggests Shanghai might […]
Read MoreA young bicycle cart driver rests leaning against a wall in the center of Yantai, by china.sixty4
Read MoreOn its “Foreign Media on China” page, the China Daily website reprints in its entirety an International Herald Tribune column penned by Philip Bowring that describes, and appears to laud, the Communist Party’s recent tightening of controls: It is hard for liberals and democrats to accept, but there seems to an inevitability about the reassertion […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: When people are armed with camera phones, information is harder to quash. Much has been made of the great democratizing impact of the new media – the fact that anyone with a laptop, a modem, and a website can be a journalist. …… Eric Zhang, a former staffer at the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Washington Post: China’s human rights record in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics has deteriorated, with thousands of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The human rights watchdog sent its latest findings to the International Olympic Committee and said Chinese authorities would have to act quickly […]
Read MoreHere is yet another episode in the history of Sino-Japanese relationships. Dream of the Red Mansion (Á∫¢Ê•ºÊ¢¶) is one of four classical novels in China and it is considered a treasure in Chinese literary history. As such, it is the pride of the Chinese people. Recently, a Japanese adult game titled “The Slaves of the […]
Read MoreFrom ESWN blog: The following is a translation of a blog post by Southern Weekend reporter Fu Jianfeng (ÂÇÖÂâëÈîã). This is about the FoxConn-versus-China Business News case that Fu and his colleagues were working on, but never go to publish it after a ban was issued on further coverage. So this is yet another case […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will train 620 endangered Siberian tigers to survive in the wild as part of a controversial effort to return them to the country’s shrinking northeast forests, state media reported on Monday. The captive-bred tigers would be taken from enclosures in Harbin, capital of HeilongjiangÔºàȪëÈæôʱüÔºâprovince, to a 15-hectare (37-acre) fenced patch of forest […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Shinzo Abe is set to take over as Japan’s prime minister Tuesday with a promise to create a more assertive nation and give its military a larger international role. But the surge in Japan’s assertiveness coincides with the spectacular rise of China’s clout in the region – risking ever greater competition over resources, […]
Read MoreReuters reports on what may be the next Pudong, and then some: Imagine a corner of China where the yuan is freely traded, banks can offer a full range of financial services and farmers receive fair compensation when they have to leave the land. It sounds far-fetched, but that is exactly what could happen before […]
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