Freezing Point (ÂÜ∞ÁÇπÔºâeditor Li Datong has written an open letter protesting the closure of his publication. ESWN has translated the letter: On January 24, 2006, Tuesday, which the deadline for the Freezing Point weekly magazine, the Beijing editorial staff of Freezing Point worked as usual to edit and proof-read the weekly edition scheduled for January […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China on Wednesday countered the long-held suspicion that it has undercounted the number of people with HIV and AIDS by releasing a new, more extensive survey that found the opposite to be true – that the country has actually overestimated how many people are stricken. The new survey, conducted with […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China’s ruling Communist Party on Tuesday suspended one of the premier publications in Chinese journalism, escalating a campaign to rein in the state media, part of the government’s toughest crackdown on freedom of expression here in more than a decade. The decision to shut down Freezing Point, a four-page weekly feature […]
Read MoreYiwu River Dam, Jinhua, Zhejiang province, from Ai Weiwei’s blog.
Read MoreFrom Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: A brigade of self-made bird flu experts is turning the outbreak rumor mill into an online information factory. “Unconfirmed reports that more than 120 people have died from the avian flu in western China increase concerns–and significantly raise the stakes–of a Chinese government cover-up. If true, the consequences could be […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian, via A Glimpse of the World: Google, the world’s biggest search engine, will team up with the world’s biggest censor, China, today with a service that it hopes will make it more attractive to the country’s 110 million online users. After holding out longer than any other major internet company, Google will […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The number of known cases of women and girls trafficked from Vietnam to China more than doubled last year, China’s official Xinhua news agency has said. Xinhua said 125 cases were detected of Vietnamese trafficked into China’s Guangxi province, across the border. This is partly due to better detection by both governments, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: More than 100 chemical plants beside China’s rivers pose safety threats, the country’s environment chief has warned. Zhou Shengxian said the plants were surveyed after a chemical spill in November poisoned the water supply for millions of people in the north-east. ……He said that a total of 21,000 chemical factories had been […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: Shanghai Journal: It was only a matter of time before money transformed that most intimate of private domains, love and marriage, as it has almost everything else in this booming country. And it stands to reason that the shock of the new would be […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The beer giant SABMiller made big investments in China and India in the 1990s, hoping to conquer markets that together have more than a billion potential beer drinkers. But today, SABMiller sells more beer in Sichuan, a southwestern Chinese province of 43 million people, than all the beer companies combined […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: As global concern about climate change and rising carbon dioxide emissions grows, China – the developing world’s biggest polluter – is sending confusing signals about its willingness to clean up energy production and tackle environmental pollution. China, which accounts for 12% of global carbon-dioxide emissions, was among some 141 countries that […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The diplomatic dogfight over Iran’s nuclear program is generating noise all over the world. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grabbed headlines when he declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map” and again when Iran removed International Atomic Energy Agency seals from three of the country’s nuclear sites. Technorati Tags: China, […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Central government planners are worried. They want to steady the economy in the bellwether city at all costs — for fear of an impending crash. Such a meltdown could spark unforeseen consequences, and deal a crushing blow to state banks that have amassed billions in distressed debt. To ward off the apocalypse, […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek Online: Its growing clout is clear in two events: A visit to Beijing by Saudi King Abdullah, and the hot bidding over Westinghouse and the chance to build nukes for China. The world rightly marvels at China’s rapid economic ascendancy, but far less appreciated is how its modernization strategy hinges on access to […]
Read MoreFrom People.com.cn, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: The following is a photo-play by a reporter from the Strait Metropolis News (Fuzhou) working undercover to investigate a “Disappearing Fairies” racket in China (see People.com.cn, December 31, 2005) The scene is Lin Zexu Plaza in Fuzhou city, Fujian province, China. It is well known that there were a dozen […]
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