The following is a translation of a note by activist Hu Jia, after he and a group of activists took photos of the plainclothes officers assigned to follow them. Thanks to David Cowhig for the translation. See also ESWN’s translation “My Life With The Plainclothesmen” by lawyer Gao Zhisheng: When you left [writing to lawyer […]
Read MoreFrom The Yomiuri Shimbun: More than 2,000 high school students are to be mutually invited to visit Japan and China each year as part of efforts to improve bilateral relations, according to government sources. The exchange program, which is part of mid- and long-term efforts to boost ties, aims to build a forward-looking relationship. Relations […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: A Chinese farmer has set off a bomb in a court house in north-west China, killing himself and four other people including the court president. According to the official Chinese media, the man set off the bomb on Friday during a court hearing. He is reported to have been angry over a […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: When global audiences tune in to watch the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the world’s fastest and strongest athletes won’t be alone in striving for superlative achievements — a new generation of innovative architecture is rising in China. Fueled by a surging economy (the latest Chinese census, released on Dec. 20, says the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China plans to stamp out wasteful medical projects and establish teams of health inspectors to raise standards of hospitals and doctors, Health Minister Gao Qiang said on Saturday. Gao told a meeting of health officials to “strictly control the construction scale and expansion rate of major public hospitals, and restrict hospitals from unapproved […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s ruling Communist Party called on its members Saturday to do more to fight widespread corruption and politically explosive problems such as unpaid back wages for migrant workers. The appeal warned against complacency in a multiyear anti-graft campaign. See also “Meeting of CPC discipline watchdog issues communique” from […]
Read More“Give me my salary, I want to go home.” migrant workers asking for their overdue salary before the New Year, via sohoxiaobao.com
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via phayul.com: Microsoft Corp. has shut down a popular Chinese-language blog that has published content potentially offensive to Chinese authorities, amid China’s ongoing efforts to control information on the Internet. Microsoft’s MSN Spaces, which lets users create their own Web sites or Web logs, closed down the blog, written by […]
Read MoreFrom CECC Virtual Academy : The general offices of the Communist Party Central Committee (CPCC) and the State Council jointly issued an opinion that calls on Chinese authorities to strengthen controls over society and address a range of social problems as a means to “establish a harmonious society,” “improve the Party’s ruling capacity,” and “solidify […]
Read MoreFrom The Southern Weekend (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Here, I wish to solemnly tell everybody — for any research done by a foreigner on China, you can put up a question mark first. Especially, those...
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: Forget loners in pyjamas and slippers pouring out their hearts in anonymous solitude. China’s bloggers are going offline — and they’re having a blast. Among the best known is “Dai San Ge Biao”, literally meaning ‘wears three watches’ but also a play on former leader Jiang Zemin’s Three Represents, or “San Ge Dai […]
Read MoreAn elderly couple on a country road; from About Shanghai blog.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A blind activist in China and his family have been placed under house arrest for four months and he was beaten by thugs when he tried to venture out, after exposing forced abortions in his home province on the east coast. Club-wielding goons believed to be hired by local authorities have been posted […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Growing prosperity in China threatens to place intolerable burdens on the world’s natural resources, an environmental researcher has warned. Unless the global economy is fundamentally restructured, the world will be unable to produce enough energy, food and other resources to meet Chinese demand, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s population and family planning minister said here on Friday that China will work to limit its mainland population below 1.37 billion by 2010. Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, stressed that China will keep its family planning policy in place to maintain a low birth […]
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