From the Guardian: More than four-fifths of the wetlands along northern China’s biggest river system have dried up because of over-development, the state media reported yesterday in the latest warning of the dire environmental consequences of the country’s economic growth. Fifty years ago, the Haihe river and its tributaries formed an ecologically rich area that […]
Read MoreFrom journalism.co.uk: The BBC World Service has rubbished claims that a new language-learning site for China is offering politically neutral content to bypass government censorship. A story published on 3 February by the Financial Times (FT) described the content of BBCChina.com.cn as ‘studiously uncontroversial’, avoiding any of the corporation’s hard-hitting news coverage so the site […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Many of China’s major museums have begun constructing digital clones of themselves in the form of websites and producing twin-language exhibition catalogues as the country evolves into a global high-tech and cultural power. But in etching out their images in cyberspace as part of China’s “digital museum project,” some art centres have […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Buckets are inseparable from the life and work of 32-year-old poet Liu Dongwu. Liu is chief editor of Nanfeiyan, a literary magazine based in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province. The name translates as “wild goose flying southward.” Liu has managed to rise to literary fame from his hard beginnings as a migrant […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: In advance of what could be harsh questioning this week by the U.S. Congress, Yahoo was planning to issue a statement Monday outlining its belief in openness and freedom of speech, even when it is forced to violate that belief by Chinese laws. Yahoo and three other technology companies are […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, a US columnist who has served as a visiting professor at Harvard, sounds a warning about China’s economic growth. According to Friedman, China will very quickly reach a point at which further economic growth will be impossible unless political reform takes place. […]
Read MoreThe second division of Xinjiang Military Police in training, Jan. 26, 2006; via peacehall.com.
Read MoreFrom The Independent: Travelling through some of America’s major cities last week, I detected a degree of anxiety confined not just to the latest George Bush revelations on the threat from al-Qa’ida. People in the United States worry about terrorism, but they also worry about economic threats. In some US quarters, the latest economic bogeyman […]
Read MoreCCTV carried a report about children working at a toy factory in Dongguan, Guangdong Province during summer vacation. Below is a translation of an excerpt of the report (translation by CDT). The full report (in Chinese) is here: When reporters arrived at Houjie, Dongguan city, we encountered a group of workers who looked like students. […]
Read MoreFrom the AP. via the Star: Romance and marriage have changed drastically in China after 25 years of breakneck economic growth and looser social controls. In a country now wide open to Western influences, even Valentine’s Day is making inroads, with chocolates, dinner dates, flowers and cards all becoming popular expressions of affection on the […]
Read MoreESWN has translated “A Investigative Reporter’s Year-End Review” by journalist Fu Jianfeng. The original Chinese is here: On this same day last year, I did not sit by the quietly flowing Zhujiang to contemplate what happened during the past year. I did not look at the blossoming Chinese redbuds. My distant thoughts were with the […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: China issued its first official regulations on how to prevent and control the spread of the AIDS virus Sunday, mandating free testing and medication for the country’s poor. The statute issued by the State Council, China’s cabinet, protects HIV carriers and AIDS patients from discrimination and criminalizes intentionally […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: Hopes for warmer relations between China and the Dalai Lama have been raised by news that 200 Chinese nationals attended a prayer meeting in India with the exiled Tibetan ruler. Tibet’s government-in-exile, based in the Indian hilltown of Dharamsala, confirmed yesterday that China had issued a growing number of visas to ethnic […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Despite the country’s booming economy China’s urban poverty has worsened according to the China Youth Daily which quotes dozens of economists. The economists told the paper that the proportion of urban residents living in poverty is now higher than that of rural residents. The poverty rate in China’s cities is six to eight […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: Just as Nazi Germany did in Europe during World War II, Imperial Japan made extensive use of forced labor across the vast area of the Asia Pacific it once occupied. Today, however, Japan’s government and corporations are dealing with the legacy of wartime forced labor very differently than their German counterparts. This […]
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