From the Reuters: International rights groups denounced new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a step backward ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when thousands of journalists will descend on the country’s capital. The official Xinhua news agency announced rules on Sunday requiring foreign media to seek its approval with immediate effect […]
Read MoreAmid the recent swirling news tightening waves, some more discipline with the judicial system, from Xinhua net via Sina.com, translated by CDT: Vice President Cao Jianming of China’s Supreme Court stressed the need to strictly observe news release discipline in courts across the country. Some embargoed items, quite arbitrary in case of ambiguity, include: contents […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: About 250,000 Chinese die of suicide each year, making suicide a leading cause of death for Chinese people, according to an expert on mental health. Suicide is the number one cause of death for Chinese people aged between 15 and 34, said Michael R. Philips, China representative of the International Association for Suicide […]
Read MoreFrom the Far Eastern Economic Review, via A Glimpse of the World: If you want to know what the world thinks about China’s economy, best keep track of what the typical international corporate executive is reading. For the past year or two he has been reading some very provocative books about the mainland business climate. […]
Read MoreA father carrying heavy luggage on board for freshman, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Nanfang Web, translated by CDT: Shandong Zibo city middle court recently promoted a “Digital Judge Software” to be used throughout Shandong province. Since 2003 this software has been used on a trial basis by Zibo city middle court. Many experts and judges support the software, saying it will promote transparency in the Chinese legal […]
Read MoreFrom the Beijing News, translated by CDT: The film “Romance on LuShan Mountain” /Â∫ê±±ÊÅã produced in the early 1980’s was a box office hit throughout China at that time. More than that, the romantic love story of the film attracted many Chinese people to visit LuShan, some even moved to LuShan. Now there are 120,000 […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s entertainment industry is facing another sex scandal as a 22-year-old actress claims a director of the China Central Television (CCTV) asked her to sleep with him in return for a role in the TV drama “Painter Village”. Xiao Qiong(ËÇñÁêº) said on her blog that director Yang Yichao hinted that she might […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China reported the slowest growth in government and corporate spending this year, the strongest indication so far that a government clampdown on investment is starting to bite. Fixed-asset investment in towns and cities climbed 21.5 percent from a year earlier, slowing from 27.4 percent in July, Qiu Xiaohua, head of the statistics bureau, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s trade surplus rose to a record for the fourth straight month in August, adding pressure on Premier Wen Jiabao to let the yuan gain faster. The gap widened to $18.8 billion last month from $14.6 billion in July, the government-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Beijing-based customs bureau. The figure brings […]
Read MoreFrom Xian Hui via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: An article in Aug. 29’s issue of People’s Daily introduced a rare touching story: the party branch of Liuhe Township and its government in Qichun County of Hubei Province sold all their three government cars since 2003, in order to have funds to promote agricultural technologies. […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Mainstream Chinese media have not yet commented on regulations issued yesterday through Xinhua News Agency that formalize already strict limitations on cooperation between Chinese media and foreign newswires [NYT coverage], but critical blogs and web postings (with a trickle in support) are already multiplying. The following are postings (or gentie) that […]
Read MoreFrom The Atalantic Online: The furor over Kim Jong Il‘s missile tests and nuclear brinksmanship obscures the real threat: the prospect of North Korea’s catastrophic collapse. How the regime ends could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades. The likely winner? China The abbreviation for North Korea used by American military officers says […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China plans to send a contingent of peacekeeping troops to Lebanon and is consulting the United Nations on the details, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman gave no details but French President Jacques Chirac, whose country is a key player in the U.N. deployment, […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Given the global admiration that China’s economic ascendancy inspires abroad these days, it’s easy to forget the mainland is run by a one-party state with a near-obsessive need to control sensitive information. It is both a 21st century economic phenomenon“and a massive surveillance state. And if you doubt that Big Brother lives […]
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