From Reuters via the New York Times: A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Shenzhen-based Foxconn, which manufactures iPods for Apple Inc. , and the China Business News […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A blind Chinese human rights activist whose jailing last month sparked an international outcry has filed an appeal, asserting authorities stifled his defense and apparently coerced witnesses into testifying against him. Chen Guangcheng attracted world attention last year after issuing a report that said officials in east China’s […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: …The benefits of the Internet are apparent to all, especially insofar as many people now have a channel for expressing their own thoughts, perspectives and feelings such as they never before had. But I also believe it’s inadvisable at the moment to get one’s hopes up too high over the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom Raymond Zhou blog: A philosopher has thrown down the gauntlet and asked a science maverick to a duel. Since we are living in the 21st century, to make it “civilized,” in the philosopher’s words, whoever loses the contest will commit suicide “in a civilized manner.” You might think this is a plot from a […]
Read MoreFrom Council on Foreign Relations: With much fanfare, China opened the world’s highest railroad (AP) connecting Beijing with the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, on July 1, the Chinese Communist Party anniversary. An engineering feat, the high-tech train reaches heights of more than 16,500 feet and carries passengers in sealed cars pumped with oxygen across the […]
Read MoreFrom New Perspectives Quarterly, via Blackwell Synergy: Zheng Bijian is a close associate and adviser to Chinese President Hu Jintao. When Hu was Director of The Central Party School, where many of the Communist Party’s ideas are shaped, just before China’s president, Zheng was vice director. Since Hu came to power, Zheng has headed the […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai-Star: For dozens of years, many Chinese people, especially the young, have been proud of speaking good English and being familiar with foreign culture. Such people are considered knowledgeable.Suddenly, the situation has changed. Just one or two years ago, a long forgotten word guoxue (State study, which mainly means the Chinese ancient classics) has […]
Read MoreFrom CRI online: 1. About 30 students sit on the ground in a first-grade-class without enough desks and chairs. 2. A train is passing by in front of the school gate while children are playing during the class break.
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The wife of a Hong Kong journalist jailed in mainland China for spying says her husband is to appeal. Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Times, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Mary Lau said her husband had sent her a message calling his conviction unfair […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily: The worst drought to hit China in 50 years is expanding across the country, authorities said yesterday. Over the past two months, the drought has left at least 18 million people short of drinking water in 15 provinces, municipalities and regions, according to the Chinese Ministry of Water […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: According to a story of Jan. 25 issue of Tianjin Tonight, a local newspaper, the public-recognized “corruption buildings” won the 2005 Lu Ban (È≤ÅÁè≠) award, the most prestigious construction and architecture prize in China. It is learned that 85 projects are last year’s Lu Ban awardees, including four in […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei Music: This episode of Danwei Music TV is about Say Bok Gwai (Ê≠ªÁôΩȨº – Die White Devil), San Francisco’s first Chinese American hardcore band to sing in Cantonese. Say Bok Gwai’s original compositions are rooted in American punk/thrash/ hardcore music. The subject matter of their lyrics ranges from Chinese American identity to grappling […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The International Monetary Fund‘s executive board, responding to appeals by the United States, has taken a step toward giving more of a voice to China and three other developing countries in setting policy on global economic matters, the fund announced on Friday. The fund said that the board also endorsed […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Blogger’s block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don’t have time for excuses. So what’s a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:… -The internet is now becoming a game between […]
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