From Reuters: Police in China have cracked the country’s largest pyramid scam, a cosmetics-sales scheme involving hundreds of thousands of people across the country, local media reported on Friday. Police in Liaocheng, in eastern Shandong province, uncovered the 2 billion yuan ($253 million) network after a member provided a list of names that led to […]
Read MoreFrom Li Xinde’s blog, translated by CDT: When Dandong authorities decided to take on a key criminal case directed by the Ministry of Public Security and Liaoning Branch, Lu Zhaozhong (Âç¢ÂÖÜÂø†) and Li Maokun (ÊùéËåÇÂù§) were two backbone policemen who participated in the investigation and crackdown on Dandong’s gang group headed by Zhou Jingzhu (Âë®ÊôØÁè†) […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via Howard French’s Glimpse of the World blog: The question seemed innocuous enough when it appeared in an online poll this month on the popular Chinese Internet portal Netease: Would you like to be Chinese in the next life? It is the answer that proved dangerous. Sixty-four percent of respondents […]
Read MoreFrom PC Advisor, an update on the Shi Tao case: A Chinese journalist jailed in part due to email evidence provided by a Yahoo subsidiary plans to file a lawsuit in the US against the internet company within the next few months. “We’re also trying to line up other victims for a class-action. We’ve been […]
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Here you are, all alone in Tongxian. How do you stay in the loop?
[Turns to his laptop] Let me show you QQ. [Clicks open QQ] Look at all these chatrooms. Here’s my “gossip” (Â∞èÈÅìxiaodao) chatroom – 159 contacts. Here’s my “in-depth” (shendu) chat room – 198 contacts. In all these chatrooms combined, there are at least 500 journalists. Many are from party newspapers and a lot are young reporters. Of those, at least 200 do investigative reporting. I can’t possibly keep up with them all.
Would it be easy for a foreign reporter to join one of these chatrooms?
Well, you’d have to be invited. Generally, no one would want to invite a foreign journalist. It’s anti-productive. We all have very different backgrounds, but we do share a general consensus. We don’t want to see social upheaval. We rather see our country to proceed toward democracy in orderly way, step by step..
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Read MoreFrom the Guardian’s original China hand: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said last week during his visit to Europe that his government seeks to build “an environmentally friendly society” – and he seems to mean it. But can it be delivered? By 2020, half of China’s population will be living in urban areas, and domestic water […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Danwei noted last year that some Beijing residents were agitating to change the common place-name Âùü, “grave”, to something similar-sounding but less morbid, or at least more cultured, like ‘mausoleum’. This sort of image improvement has been going on in Beijing for centuries, writes the Mirror in an article that examines streets […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: The Internet is becoming more and more popular in China, where 123 million users were counted by the end of June, second in the world only to the United States. The number of broadband users reached 77 million and there are currently 788,000 websites in the country, Jiang Yaoping from the information ministry […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Nearly 200 students at a school in northeastern China have been hospitalized, apparently with food poisoning, after eating in the facility’s cafeteria, state media said Thursday. If confirmed, the case would add to a string of mass food poisoning cases at Chinese schools in recent weeks. A total of 171 students from the […]
Read MoreFrom Netease (translated by CDT): At 9:20 yesterday morning, Chen Xiaoying, a 42-year-old migrant worker in Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province, inadvertently scratched the tail of a white Toyota car while she was crossing a street. What followed this small incident was disastrous. The driver got out, dragged Chen to the roadside, and slapped her twice, […]
Read MoreFrom China Business News (translated by CDT): How did a construction worker in Sichuan province become a Forbes China Billionaire? Bribery. Wang Dejun, who 20 years ago was a plasterer, was listed in 2004 on Forbes magazine’s list of Chinese billionaires with assets worth 1.1 billion yuan. In June this year, he stood trial on […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: A factory worker has been released after serving 17 years in jail for setting fire to a military vehicle during the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, he said Thursday. Zhang Maosheng was 21 in 1989 when he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of counterrevolutionary […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: China’s neighbors worry far more about the country’s military resurgence than about its massive economic surge, international polling suggests. Although China’s exploding economy was seen as much less of a threat than its military, only in Japan and China — 95 percent of Chinese — was the Chinese […]
Read MoreOn the Foreign Policy magazine blog, Mike Boyer writes about his recent meeting with Li Wufeng, the Director General of the State Council Information Office: This is Li Wufeng, China’s top Internet cop. A quiet man who...
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