From EastSouthWestNorth blog: In this previous post, I was singing the high praises for Li Datong’s The Story of Freezing Point. I told you this was less about news stories than the process by which certain stories were gathered and written. In the following, I have translated pages 100-102 about a story on euthanasia. If […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: As a toxic chemical slick that originated in China’s Songhua River flows toward the border with Russia, officials of both countries are already working together to tackle the spill. The China Daily newspaper quoted sources from Heilongjiang province Environment Protection Bureau as saying that the slick was expected overnight Friday […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The International Herald Tribune: A 35-year-old man in eastern China became infected with the potentially deadly H5N1 virus after an outbreak was reported in ducks in his village, making him the country’s sixth human case of bird flu, the state news media said Friday. The self-employed vendor in Suichuan County in the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the China Post Twenty-seven people in northern China were being tried for their involvement in a violent clash over land that left six dead, the government said Friday. The trial opened Thursday in Hebei province, where villagers protesting compensation for land seizures were attacked in June by unidentified men armed with guns […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Moscow Times: Kazakh oil started flowing into a new pipeline to China on Thursday, the first such route from an ex-Soviet state and the start of a project that could give Beijing direct access to Caspian Sea crude. The pipeline, partly financed by energy-hungry China, which has pledged to take responsibility […]
Read MoreFrom The Non-violent Resistence blog: (All links in Chinese unless otherwise specified. ) A hot debate going on in Chinese journalists’ circles these days: a prominent Chinese scientist lashes out against one Southern People Weekly (same family as the once-celebrated, now half-dead Southern Weekend) reporter who did a four-hour interview with him and wrote her […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: A Chinese lawyer jailed in Shanghai after helping residents fight forced evictions has been denied family visits, sparking concerns for his welfare. Zheng Enchong, 55, may also have been beaten in prison, Amnesty International said Thursday. He is serving a three-year sentence for leaking state secrets to foreign entities, after he faxed information […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Punk fashions, shopping malls and Mandarin-language rap are helping China create a sanitized, government-controlled parallel universe that mimics the outside world. The apparent goal is a nationwide cocoon displaying the West’s popular archetypes, but cloned and manufactured locally, so Chinese will perceive their society as open and prosperous, and not be attracted […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: India and China will begin the year 2006 with a strategic “clearing” of the air. At the new round of “strategic” talks between the two Asian giants, India will tell China that it is not in the business of “containing” China. This will be on top of the agenda when […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: Though protests are increasingly common in China, the violence in Dongzhou was uncommon. Rarer still was the reaction of the authorities. Rather than deny the police crackdown”though efforts were made to downplay it”the government of Guangdong province at the weekend criticised the “wrong actions” of the commander of the paramilitary forces responsible […]
Read MoreFrom Knight-Ridder: Barely a dozen years ago, when China’s lamps still burned low, the country didn’t need deep-sea oil ports, massive tank farms and a brawny foreign policy to procure oil in far-flung spots. Today, China is an oil-guzzling dragon with a voracious thirst. Supertankers stretching three football fields in length now wait to enter […]
Read MoreAccording to Xinhua, the word “Baoxian 保先” (Preserving the Progressiveness (of the CCP)”) is among top ten “most searched key words” on Chinese search engine Baidu, together with “Shenzhou VI...
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: …Faced with this waking up of the mysterious oriental dragon, some in the international community always exaggerate and pan-politicalize things and trace them back to the core of “China threat theory”. Even the “Super Girl” phenomenon was surprisingly branded “democracy”. We say that for a country like China which has an enduring […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: With a booming economy to match its global ambitions, China is elbowing its way in to join the scramble for Africa’s untapped oil riches. On the same continent where Cold War enemies the United States and the Soviet Union once sparred through proxy regimes and armies, Chinese oil executives now jostle with western […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via MSNBC.com: Chinese were told Thursday of yet another contaminated river incident ” this one due to pig excrement. Domestic media reported that homes in a rural area of southwest China were allowed to turn the water back on this week after pig waste flooded a local river and forced water supplies to […]
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