From BBC NEWS: A Chinese democracy activist has reportedly been jailed for 12 years for helping to organise anti-Japanese protests in China earlier this year. The wife of Xu Wanping said he had been found guilty of incitement to subvert state power at a closed hearing. Mr Xu, 44, was among a number of activists […]
Read MoreFrom Coolavenues.com: There was a time when the world looked West. Not any more. Now the East is beginning to appear a lot more interesting. Not only because of the performance of certain characters on stage – India and China – but also due to the curious dynamics emerging out of the tussle between the […]
Read MoreTechnology critic Keso (洪波) is arguably the most influential blogger in China’s information technology world. His Playin’ with IT blog is widely popular among Chinese geeks, hackers, IT business people, new media...
Read MoreEmergency workers measuring the water of the Amur River in Khabarovsk, via The Moscow Times.
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Moscow Times: A toxic spill that poisoned drinking water for millions of Chinese flowed into the city of Khabarovsk on Thursday, but authorities said the concentration of pollutants was no longer dangerous. Residents, however, remained worried, and Governor Viktor Ishayev appealed to them “to keep calm.” “We have done everything we […]
Read MoreFrom The Star: For years, China’s thousands of toy factories and busy workers have dominated much ofthe global toy industry but now rising costs and faltering sales have left managers crying over miserly profits. With four out of every five toys going to the European Union last year made in China, business should be booming […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government provided details Friday of its efforts to contain the second major environmental disaster to hit the country’s waterways in little more than a month. State media reported that authorities had sealed dams and pumped neutralizing chemicals into the Bei River in the wake of a toxic spill […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China has dismissed two provincial deputy governors and prosecuted 96 officials blamed for six high-profile coal mine accidents that killed a total of 528 people over the past 13 months, the government announced Friday. All six disasters were blamed on managers who failed to follow safety rules, sometimes […]
Read MorePhoto series: 1000 officers of a Chinese Military Academy marching exercise, via teein.com.
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: What’s more convincing to the masses than propaganda out of Beijing? Discreetly massaged copy from the New York Times, evidently. The New York Times’ Howard W. French recently visited Korla, discovering that despite the oil boom in this “sleepy oasis” in Xinjiang, “not everyone is enjoying the benefits of the town’s new […]
Read MoreFrom China Youth Daily (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Little Wei and Old Ji are peasants in Wenxi county, Shanxi province. They were both born in 1965. Both of them were found to be infected with the AIDS/HIV virus around 1997 from previous blood transfusions. At the end of last year, they were staying at […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: With valuations of Chinese Internet companies rising over the course of 2005, several firms are looking to take advantage of the market with overseas initial public offerings in 2006. However, one of the hottest companies in the industry in 2005, blog service provider Bokee, appears to be going through some growing pains. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: The World Health Organization urged China on Friday to share samples from its bird flu outbreaks in animals and warned that human cases could be going unreported because of its weak healthcare system. Shigeru Omi, WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said no viruses had been made available from […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: A Chinese researcher for The New York Times was indicted Friday for revealing state secrets to the newspaper and also on a lesser charge of fraud, a move that should send the case to trial within six weeks, his lawyer said. The researcher, Zhao Yan, 43, who worked in the […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: The death toll has risen to 42 in a gas explosion at a road construction site in Dujiangyan City, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Eleven workers were killed, some 20 others missing Thursday in a gas explosion at a road construction site in Dujiangyan City, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The accident occured […]
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