Photo series: A scene from an ongoing local campaign “Preserving the Progressiveness of the CCP members,” via tom.com.
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: EARLIER THIS month, Chinese police shot and killed as many as 20 protesters (the numbers are in dispute) in Dongzhou village, near Hong Kong. The use of lethal force was unusual, but the underlying grievances were commonplace: powerless townspeople demonstrating against local government practices that endanger their meager existence. Economic […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: A local Chinese Party official and 26 other people have gone on trial for their role in a bloody riot over land rights in northern China. He Feng and the others were charged with causing “intentional injuries” during a clash with protesters in Shengyou village, Hebei, in June. Six people died after […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Corruption has been falling among Chinese Communist Party members overall, but the number of cases involving higher-ranking officials taking larger bribes has risen, a party official was quoted on Sunday as saying. “Greed, hedonism and egoism have grown among a few officials during the development of China’s socialist market economy,” said He Yong, […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: THE chain of events that led to numerous deaths at the hands of the police in a village in southern China began with a bitter feud over one of the oldest of all Chinese traditions, the ancestral grave. Inquiries last week established that the death toll in Dongzhou, near Shanwei city, […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Chinese academics said Friday that the mainland government has neglected farmers’ interests in the country’s rush for World Trade Organization membership, although they have no detailed proposals to improve the farmers’ lot. “Chinese farmers suffered most after China joined the WTO,” Professor Tang Renwu of the School of Management of Beijing Normal […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times Magazine: Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match. Outside, the Indian police were breaking up a hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence organization among […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: China’s urban population is expected to reach 560 million by the end of this year, up 7 percent from the figure five years ago, China Daily reports Saturday. About 43 percent of China’s population will be living in urban areas, the paper quoted Zheng Xinli, deputy director of the Policy […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities have released two officials working in Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer’s company in Xinjiang after holding them without charge for seven months. Company secretary Ruzi Mamat and Kadeer’s former assistant Aysham Kerim were freed Dec. 14 and allowed to return home, Kadeer told RFA’s Uyghur service. Both were arrested May […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese police shut down the opening of a gay and lesbian culture festival on Friday, an action participants said highlighted deep-rooted intolerance toward homosexuality. The festival was to be a weekend of films, plays, exhibitions and seminars on the issue of homosexuality, but police raided the opening reception on Friday night and participants […]
Read MoreFrom China Labour Bulletin: China Labour Bulletin is pleased to release today the first in a forthcoming series of English-language research reports on major issues concerning workers’ rights in China. The main focus of the new report – Deadly Dust – is on the case intervention work undertaken by CLB during 2004-05 to assist jewellery-processing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star Online: Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas on Saturday to repel hundreds of protesters trying to force their way into a building where world trade ministers were meeting. “The protesters got very close to the building, they were standing just across the street,” a Reuters reporter said. Fifty-four […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is winning African hearts and minds by offering the world’s poorest continent everything from cheap flip-flops to new sports stadiums, but the West is wary of the Asian giant’s methods and motives. From a 20,000-seater soccer stadium in coup-prone Central African Republic to a huge parliament building in war-hit Ivory Coast, China […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: The ruthless suppression of the villagers of Dongzhou was a troubling reminder that China has not yet abandoned the brutal tactics that led to the slaughter of hundreds of students at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Fearful of retribution, most villagers refused to discuss the clash, but dozens did provide a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: How will Bree Van De Kamp and the rest of the gang on Wisteria Lane play in Beijing? The Walt Disney Co. will soon find out, when “Desperate Housewives” dubbed in Mandarin makes its debut in China on Monday. The ABC ratings sensation will air on state-run CCTV8 with three episodes […]
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