From Financial Times: Shanghai loves dazzling engineering projects and its latest scheme is to build trains that will cover the 200km to the tourist destination of Hangzhou in 30 minutes by levitating on magnets. Yet it is the old-fashioned Tarmac road between the same cities that is now the centre of attention in Shanghai politics, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A food company from Taiwan, the self-governing island threatened with invasion if it declares formal independence from China, was on Wednesday named as the exclusive supplier of instant noodles to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Uni-President, the island’s biggest food company, is the first Taiwanese-owned company to be named as a sponsor of […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices online: When tens of thousands of Ruian, Zhejiang citizens came out to protest the official conclusion of an investigation into the death of high school teacher Dai Haijing, it didn’t take long for the news”despite being banned from mainstream media”to flash through Chinese blogs and BBS’. When short videos were taken by […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News: An investigation by Mongolia into the 1971 plane crash that killed Lin Biao, China’s No. 2 leader at the time, concluded that the cause was unlikely to have been a lack of fuel as China says, records obtained by Kyodo News show. Meanwhile, a Mongolian source knowledgeable about the investigation told Kyodo […]
Read MoreThe following is the final version of a piece that ran in today’s Asian Wall Street Journal, written by Beijing-based rights defense lawyers Li Jinsong, Zhang Lihui, Li Fangping, Teng Biao, and Xu Zhiyong: Chen Guangcheng, a blind advocate for the rights of Chinese villagers, recently made headlines around the world when he was sentenced […]
Read MoreSeveral media outlets and human rights organizations have reacted to the recent announcement by Xinhua that the official news agency would be responsible for all news distribution in China. From a New York Times editorial: China has long prided itself on its ability to master capitalism without indulging in the messy business of democracy. So […]
Read MoreBai minority people singing at a traditional ceremony in Dali, Yunnan province, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom The Three Gorges Prob: Below, a summary of an article by He Zhongping that appeared in 21st Century Economic Report (Ershiyi shiji jingji baodao) on Aug. 24. (Translation and summary by Three Gorges Probe.) “We are really concerned about the western route of the south-north water transfer project. We wonder whether the proposed scheme […]
Read MoreFrom the China News, translated by CDT: Tibet Autonomous Region committee members made decisions to remove and reappoint dozens of key officials from the region. The announcement was made on Sep. 13th Beijing time. Ze Ren Sang Zhu(Ê≥Ω‰ªÅÊ°ëÁè†)’was removed as General Secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region’s NPC Standing Committee(Ëá™Ê≤ªÂå∫‰∫∫§ßÂ∏∏ÂßöÂäûÂÖ¨ÂéÖÂÖöÁªÑ‰π¶ËÆ∞), and Zhao Lian(˵µÂªâ) was appointed to […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: On Sunday, China’s official news agency Xinhua issued a new set of directives on the distribution of foreign news in China that reinforces its traditional role as gatekeeper and propaganda arm. That role includes filtering news and pictures from international news agencies, which are forbidden from selling their content direct […]
Read MoreVia China Environmental News Digest: Chinese authorities have detained senior managers at two factories in southern China which leaked the cancer-causing chemical arsenide into a river, the official Xinhua news agency said. The plants in Hunan province, which had no pollution treatment facilities, had been closed down, Xinhua said in an overnight report seen on […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua net via sina.com, translated by CDT: Hou Jianjun, former Liaoning Provincial Congress’s delegate member and chairman of a transportation company in Fushun City, had a verbal fight with a pedestrian while driving early one morning in March last year. Then it escalated into a fistfight. And the incident spiraled out of control with […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The birth of twin pandas at a research center brought the number of the endangered species born in captivity this year in China to a record 25, a news report said Tuesday. The number of births so far this year is up from at least 19 for the research program in 2005, the […]
Read MoreThe Guardian seizes on Wen Jiabao‘s impending visit to the UK to summarize recent crackdowns on dissenting voices: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, flew into London today amid rising international criticism of his government’s crackdown on lawyers, journalists, NGOs and civil liberties activists. In the most repressive phase since Mr Wen and President Hu […]
Read MoreAfter a failure of working out a green GDP scheme spearheaded by SEPA, now the National Bureau of Statistics is coming up with some watered down versions, from China News Agency via sina.com, translated by CDT: During a Q&A session today, Minister Qiu Xiaohua of the state’s statistics agency said China will work out happiness […]
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