Foreign reporters in China have begun writing personal blogs where they discuss their lives as foreign correspondents, their thoughts about China, and other topics that don’t fit into their daily reportage. Richard Spencer of The Telegraph has a blog here, Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers runs China Rises, Howard French of the New York Times […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: The newest member of the Chinese monetary policy committee will today launch a stinging attack on those calling for a major revaluation of the yuan. Fan Gang, a Harvard-educated economist who this month joined the People’s Bank of China committee responsible for advising on interest rates and exchange rate settings, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese financial newspaper has said it will support two of its journalists being sued for defamation over a news report that alleged mistreatment of workers at a China plant manufacturing iPod music players. The case was brought by manufacturer Foxconn, a Shenzhen-based unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW: Quote, […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Jimmy Wales, founder of the open-forum internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, vowed yesterday he would not go down the same path as search engine Google by bowing to pressure from Beijing to censor sensitive articles. Wikipedia, whose open invitation to write and edit articles has become increasingly popular […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s national audit office announced a new code of conduct after a macabre incident last week, when one of its auditors died of “excessive drinking and eating” at banquets hosted by the local electricity bureau whose books he was screening. His fellow auditors did not rush home in grief after their colleague’s […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The mass events, which draw hundreds of single men and women, have climbed in popularity since they were introduced in Chinese cities. One event in Zhejiang in April attracted 12,658 participants, Xinhua news agency said, while 10,000 showed up for another in Shanghai. The events appeal to China’s new ranks of urban […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: One third of China is suffering from acid rain caused by rapid industrial growth, an official report quoted by the state media says. The pollution inspection report to the standing committee of parliament found that 25.5 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide were spewed out, mainly from the country’s coal-burning factories last year […]
Read MoreFrom Anhuinews.com, translated by CDT: Newly appointed Baoshan District governor Qin Yu of Shanghai is being investigated for “serious violation of discipline,” for cases related to fallen chief of Shanghai’s labor and social security bureau Zhu Junyi. Two other officials, with the city’s electricity authorities, were also reported by the city party branch’s discipline inspection […]
Read MoreA boy reading his Chinese textbook in a small village, via www.xitek.com
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Many trends in today’s China have their roots in the late 1970s – the period after the nation had its slate wiped clean by the Cultural Revolution. Those cataclysmic years (1966-1976) offer insight into what pushed China’s pendulum toward capitalism and why democracy hasn’t followed. Or as the preface to […]
Read MoreFrom the Non-Violent Resistance blog, more on the FoxConn lawsuit against two China Business News journalists: Words in the Chinese press circles are, that FoxConn, therefore Hon Hai, had deliberately picked the two journalists from China Business News to sue in a painstaking plot to harrass and intimidate media outlets and journalists. After all, China […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Sometime over the next few weeks, a shipment of lawn furniture, brake pads, lamps or the like is going to make history. The manufacturer, one among tens of thousands churning out product 24/7 in China’s humming coast-al cities, will fill an order bound for the United States, take payment in American dollars and […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The thick smog hanging over Hong Kong is threatening more than the views of its famous setting: Air pollution is making the city less attractive to foreign investors and is driving some executives out, according to a new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. The study, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: With the Chinese government promising foreign journalists unprecedented freedom in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, the trials of Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong serve as a reminder of the reality on the ground. Zhao, a researcher for The New York Times, was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday. […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel: Zhang Qingli, the head of the Communist Party in Tibet, talks about the role of the Dalai Lama, Beijing’s difficult relationship with the Buddhist region and China’s policies on religion. SPIEGEL: Mr. Zhang, Tibet is traditionally a deeply religious country, whereas the Chinese Communist Party is secular. Marx called religion the opium of […]
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