From The Korean Times: The following is the first in a series of articles on China’s distortion of Korean history. The first part deals with Kojoson, the first kingdom on the Korean Peninsula, founded in 2333 B.C. _ ED. Koreans proudly say the country has a history of 5,000 years as its first kingdom, Kojoson, […]
Read MoreIt’s been hard not to catch a whiff of foul politicking behind China’s first-ever Green GDP Report, which emerged earlier this month. The environmental regulator (SEPA) and State Statistics Bureau officially set to work on the index, designed to count the cost of pollution and resource mismanagement to economic productivity, in early 2004. Yet as […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT (continued): “Burned (“ÁÉß”Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Huang Dakang (ȪѧßÂ∫∑), a Hunan tobacco guru. His “adopted” daughter (Âπ≤•≥ÂÑø) was murdered and her body was incinerated. Huang called the police, who found a diary of the victim with entries about an “improper relationship” between them and Huang’s bribe taking. […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Not only has a rapidly growing market economy created more disgruntled groups, it’s created the means for them to organize and express their grievances, either to journalists or through open protest. The Leninists in the party must still believe that century-old tactics of suppression can be beefed up to curb […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Herald: Chinese government officials tried to block a reception in the Scottish parliament which drew attention to the plight of one of the communist regime’s oppressed minorities. The diplomats, who were taking their orders from Beijing, asked UK ministers to stop an event attended by Uighur refugees. They feared the showcase would […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT (more pictures in Chinese full text): As a new popular saying goes, “Thugs used to be in deep valley, now they are right at Public Security.” (“‰ª•ÂâçÁöÑÂúüÂå™Âú®Ê∑±Â±±Ôºå¶ljªäÁöÑÂúüÂå™Âú®ÂÖ¨ÂÆâ„ÄÇ”) The ear-piercing street talk doesn’t come out of nowhere. If they were not personal experiences of Wang Peirong (ÁéãÂüπËç£), Yu Jianqing (‰øûª∫Ê∏Ö), […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: A strange case happened at Urad Front Banner (‰πåÊãâÁâπÂâçÊóó) in Inner Mongolia. A retired official (ÁßëÁ∫ß) moved from an old house to a new one while leaving behind a savings account book with 470,000 yuan in it. While the old house was torn down, a […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: The Group of Seven rich nations took aim at China on Saturday, urging Beijing to let its currency rise faster to ease imbalances in trade and capital flows that pose one of the biggest risks to global growth. In a statement issued after an afternoon of talks, G7 finance ministers and central […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: The EU, the United States and Canada will launch the first ever litigation against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) by seeking on Friday to convene a panel to resolve an auto parts dispute. The three, which have shown increasing signs of impatience with the China’s trade policies, took the rare […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: Along with the down fall, or shuanggui (ÂèåËßÑ), of Binzhou City party secretary Li Dalun (Êùé§߉º¶) in Hunan Province, here came another corruption case of Fan Jiasheng (Ê®äÁî≤Áîü), Binzhou’s propaganda boss at the city’s party branch. Fan netted a solid earning of 4.8 million yuan in a single transaction, […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs and computer software Saturday in the government’s latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported. The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: A photography hobbyist, on the afternoon of Aug. 21, set up a camera to shoot the office building of Heilongjiang Provincial Government. Then an armed police guard of the office complex came up, with airs of anger, said to the photographer: government buildings are state secrets and it’s not […]
Read MoreFood laid out on a table does not waken a sleepyhead full of dreams, via beifan.com.
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained prominent civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong on suspicion of “running an illegal business.” Guo, who is also known as Yang Maodong, was taken from his home at 9 a.m. Thursday by plainclothes officers and is being held at the Guangzhou No.1 […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer in terms of sales, will announce the launch of its first credit card in China today in conjunction with China’s Bank of Communications, according to Wal-Mart and bank officials. The venture is likely the first credit card issued by a foreign retailer, analysts […]
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