From the Washington Post (link): The Chinese government said Thursday that Vice Premier Huang Ju, one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s secretive ruling council, had been hospitalized and was recovering. It did not specify the illness. The statement by a government spokesman at a news conference was the first […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Rural development and currency reform are the hot issues at China’s annual session of parliament opening this week, but some delegates have quirkier matters on their minds. Li Yinhe, a sociologist and member of the advisory body to parliament, plans to submit a proposal on same-sex marriage, aiming to end discrimination […]
Read MoreFrom the Art Newspaper (link): China and Italy have signed a treaty aimed at preventing the looting and illicit export of antiquities. The agreement was signed in Beijing by Shan Jixiang director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Italian Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione to mark the launch of the year of Italy in […]
Read MoreA girl waiting for her boyfriend in front of Shanghai shopping mall, via www.xitek.com.
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor (link): An Australian think tank suggests democracy might lead to a hostile, populist Beijing. A democratic China may bring as much harm to Asia as it does good, according to a new report from an Australian defense think tank. In an Australian Strategic Policy Institute report, economist David Hale warned […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: An incident happened on February 15, 2006 in Guangzhou. Shortly afterwards, there was a systematic attempt by the immediately affected persons to post the story onto the Internet and keep it going. This story then drew the attention of many more people and it simply will not die. Here is the translation […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online (link): Hosting the Olympics means doing a lot more than building a few stadiums, as Beijing is finding out. On Wednesday the Chinese authorities launched a campaign to clean up the way people in the city behave. One of the biggest challenges is to ban public spitting. In preparation for the 2008 […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC (link): Dr Liu Quan trudges 20km (12 miles) a day along Sichuan’s muddy mountain paths on his rounds. A village doctor for the past 55 years, he was just 15 when he started practising as a third-generation herbalist. In the 1970s he received simple training under Chairman Mao’s programme to send “barefoot […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via the Standard (link): Hundreds of people have been detained as authorities crack down on dissent before the National People’s Congress, petitioners and a rights lawyer said. Police raided hostels near the south Beijing train station Tuesday night and rounded up more than 400 people who had come to air their grievances through […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): With no sign of a thaw in chilly relations with Tokyo, Beijing appears to be isolating Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a bid to discredit him and his policies. This shift in China’s Japan strategy has become increasingly evident in recent weeks and is expected to translate further into action […]
Read MoreFrom PCWorld.com (link): Western media was abuzz Wednesday with reports, citing an English-language story on the Web site of the official People’s Daily newspaper, that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names as part of a bid to split China off from the Internet. There was just one problem: the story wasn’t […]
Read MoreFrom METANOIAC! a weblog from China: I just got back from a symposium on press freedom in China that was part of Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum. Columbia President Lee Bollinger was the moderator, and lots of media elite from both China and the US were on the panel. Among them were Dorinda Elliott, who […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): More than 8,000 readers a day clicked on Roland Soong’s blog last year and the number keeps rising, but he isn’t doing it for money or fame. “I wouldn’t know what to do with my time otherwise,” the soft spoken author of EastSouthWestNorth said in a recent interview over a Cantonese lunch […]
Read MoreFrom the Hindustan Times (link): There is more to US President George W Bush’s visit to India than what meets the eye. It’s not just the civilian nuclear deal, nor is it the “so called” friendship that the political pundits talk about. According to leading Bangladesh daily Daily Star, “The US is a South Asian […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): A concerned Li Chunlong can not understand why his farmland does not yield as much quality corn as before. The 55-year-old farmer lives in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, which is dubbed “the Granary of China” for its large areas of fertile and productive black soil. However, a recent research report said that […]
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