From csmonitor.com: A top editor was fired, web logs and cellphones have been restricted. An emotional strike by 100 journalists at this city’s most popular and lively newspaper follows a 16-month campaign to quash a broad range of “unapproved” public speech in areas verging on politics or society – a campaign that includes Internet blogs, […]
Read MoreMigrant workers eating their lunch on the street, from running-dog.co.uk.
Read MoreFrom The Hindu Business Line: THERE is much international interest in China’s economy, because of its remarkable growth over the past quarter century. Recently, attention has also focussed on the fact that this growth has been associated with significant increases in inequality in both income and wealth distribution, which were relatively low during the central […]
Read MoreFrom Granta: I arrived in Sierra Leone in June 2005, at the height of the rainy season. Mud washed down the pot-holed streets of the capital, Freetown, and knots of beggars, some without arms or legs, huddled under trees and against battered shop-fronts. It was a fortnight before the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Office clerks and society swells rub shoulders with scholars lost in worlds of their own. Actors and priests add spice to the mix, along with wild-eyed types who seem to be straight from the New York streets. And then there are the real oddballs, folks with halos and banners and […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via Oregonlive.com: Twenty-four young faces in the kindergarten class at Woodstock Elementary School here watch intently as the teacher holds up a construction paper cut-out of a large red circle, and waits for them to identify the shape. Piece of cake for a roomful of savvy 5-year-olds, except that teacher Shin Yen […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Two assailants wearing black leather jackets repeatedly slammed him with lead pipes, Zhao Xin recalled, while a third swiped at his groin with a switchblade. Soon they were joined by four more toughs, also armed with pipes, and all seven pounded away. By the time they stopped, Zhao said, they had […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: The middle-aged men and women gather in small clumps around the pavilion in Zhongshan Park like molecules in motion, drawn together by the magnetic force of their placards and photos, the odd smile, a flirtatious nod that hints at fading charms. “Graduate degree, 5 feet, 2 inches tall with a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At Korea City, on the top floor of the Xidan Shopping Center, a warren of tiny shops sell hip-hop clothes, movies, music, cosmetics and other offerings in the South Korean style. A South Korean businessman eats at one of the many Korean restaurants in Beijing. South Korea’s cultural influence on […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Financial Times: China’s economy grew 9.8 per cent in 2005, a vice minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, revising up an earlier estimate and again confounding forecasts that the country’s racing output growth had begun to slow at last. The higher growth rate, which may not be the final official […]
Read MoreFrom Ap, via The Taipei Times: China and Japan accused each other of twisting the facts in the death of a Japanese consulate worker in Shanghai, threatening to prolong a diplomatic spat that has heightened tensions between the Asian rivals. Japan’s Foreign Ministry yesterday rebutted claims by China that work-related stress had driven the man […]
Read MoreRed lanterns in a shopping center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, via duoweinews
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Wei Zebo normally can’t wait to go home for Chinese New Year at the end of January. Only this year he doesn’t dare. Like 60 of his construction worker colleagues, he is locked in a dispute with his former employer over back pay worth some 100,000 yuan ($12,390). “I haven’t plucked up the […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Thousands are abducted for profit each year. Some are sold and later adopted overseas, while others are forced into prostitution or begging. Some of the stolen children are babes in arms. In July, 52 ring members were convicted in the southern region of Guangxi after 28 baby girls, none older […]
Read MoreIn rural China, a time bomb is ticking – Editorials & Commentary – International Herald Tribune: The recent police killing in China’s Guangdong Province of as many as 20 villagers who were protesting the government’s seizure of land for a power plant is symptomatic of an emerging pattern of rural unrest that challenges the very […]
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