From the Financial Times: Anti-social and mob violence in China rose sharply last year, according to official statistics released on Thursday by the Public Security Bureau, confirming anecdotal evidence of a growing willingness of citizens to take their grievances to the street. “Public order disturbances” increased by 6.6 per cent to 87,000 in 2005 as […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeek Online: As its global trade surplus grows, other countries are getting panicky. But if handled right, this situation could lead to a more balanced global economy The angst levels of U.S., European, and Japanese trade officials shot off the charts on Jan. 11 when China reported that its 2005 global trade surplus […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Taiwan’s president has chosen his former chief of staff to replace Prime Minister Frank Hsieh, who has resigned after less than a year in the post. Su Tseng-chang is a former human rights lawyer and co-founder of the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party. Announcing the appointment, President Chen Shui-bian said he had […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, completed an eight-day visit to China on Wednesday that was notable for his intensive focus on China’s booming economy and for the enigmatic air of secrecy that enshrouded his every move. Chinese and North Korea state media made nearly simultaneous announcements of Kim’s […]
Read MoreTest driving a peasant’s home-made “submarine” in Hubei province, via sohu.com.
Read MoreFrom the Economist: IT IS surely telling that the characters that make up yinsi, the Chinese word for “privacy”, carry the connotations of illicit secrets and selfish, conspiratorial behaviour. The notion of privacy has not traditionally been valued in China, and proof of that is on display everywhere. The country’s public lavatories are often open-plan […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: …The Thai Education Ministry aims to promote the Chinese language alongside compulsory English and hopes that one third of high school students will be proficient in Chinese within five years. Lending impetus to this move are China’s other efforts to promote Chinese language education overseas. Beijing recently established the Confucius […]
Read MoreAmerican Public Media’s Marketplace is broadcasting a special report Live from China from January 9-20. Their website includes the the full-show audio as well as Latest Features, Photo Gallery, Music, Economic Timeline and Story Archives. It also includes a blog, in which correspondent Jocelyn Ford writes about covering the recent protests in Zhongshan: First thing […]
Read MoreThe ESWN blog has partially translated an interview with activist Guo Feixiong (ÈÉ≠È£õÁÜä) after his release for his involvement in the Taishi elections. The interviewer, journalist Xiaoshu, says: Although the Taishi village incident was serious enough to attract the attention of the world, there was not a lot of casualties and you and the other […]
Read MoreFrom RTHK: Two journalists in eastern China have been jailed for ten and six years for publishing an unauthorised magazine that exposed local land disputes. Court officials in Zhejiang province said the men were also charged with illegal business operations and fraud. See also “Journalists jailed for exposing land deals” from UPI.
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: An official in charge of economic development in Zhejiang, the mainland’s richest province, has jumped to his death from his office building amid an investigation by the provincial anti-graft watchdog. Shi Jiuwu, director of the provincial Development and Reform Commission, is the latest in a series […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Thousands of villagers will resume protests over a government land grab in Guangdong province, a resident said on Monday, after violent clashes with police injured scores of people. “The villagers will continue to protest until this issue is resolved,” a villager in Sanjiao township surnamed Tan […]
Read MoreFrom the Hindustan Times: There is a whole world of difference between the overall value of the general run of Indian films and that of the cinema that emerges from China. That truism was driven home for the umpteenth time at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday night. While China registered its presence in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNet: The number of Web users in China, the world’s second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people now have access to the Internet, the newspaper reported, citing a survey released by the China […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: As of March 1, 2006, China’s procurators will dispatch special technicians to make live recordings of the interrogation of criminals suspected of job-related crimes, so as to ensure that confessions be not extorted by torture. The information was disclosed by Wang Zhenchuan, vice procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) at an on-going […]
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