From Radio Free Asia, via Press Interpreter: Mr. Liu, a villager of Dongzhou (Guangdong province) told this station that there are still villagers missing two evenings after the bloody conflict there. They have not returned and neighbors fear the worst. He said, “It’s already been several days and they haven’t returned. At around 9:00 in […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: China will overtake Britain as the world’s fourth-biggest economy this year after the government in Beijing found it had underestimated output of the fastest-growing country in the world by as much as 20%. China’s first national census will show that under-recording of the service sector meant that China was just behind Britain […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The world will be a different place in 30 or 40 years, with Asia at the forefront, said Daljit Singh, a visiting senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. The new grouping is a response to this change. “Its significance is that it symbolizes the Asian […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: It didn’t take long for Wang Xiaofeng to realise that he was not cut out for the courts. Now one of China’s best-known bloggers, when he was fresh out of law school he only lasted a week in the Beijing prosecutor’s office. “If I had stayed, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via the Manila Times: Japan’s leader stuck to his guns Tuesday in a bitter and emotional dispute with China, as lingering resentment over his visits to a Tokyo war shrine clouded day two of a Southeast Asian summit. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he believed Beijing would eventually “understand” his controversial trips to […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: He is the man who beat Google to dominate the world’s fastest-growing internet market, and he has done it by building a search engine with a distinctly Chinese character. Robin Li ‘s Baidu.com is a search engine that is weak on piracy and strong on censorship. It is very much in keeping […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: One week after the violent police suppression of a demonstration against the construction of a power plant in China that left as many as 20 people dead, the overwhelming majority of the Chinese public still knows nothing of the event. Following the biggest use of armed force against civilians since […]
Read MoreShanwei shootings: Large number of the victims’ relatives burned incense and kneeled down to beg police to allow them to claim the bodies, from The Epoch Times.
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: Critics say it became the world’s No. 1 tech exporter through unfair advantages, but a closer look reveals a far more complex picture. Beijing-bashers, take note: You now have another reason to rail against China. On Dec. 12, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) announced that China has surpassed the U.S. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Forbes.com: China’s media reported Tuesday that 206 more workers were killed in mines as of Dec. 11 than in the same period last year, despite repeated promises by the government to crackdown on rampant safety violations in the industry. The China Daily newspaper reported that 5,491 coal miners were killed in 2,939 […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China is poised to announce its economy is significantly larger than the government’s official measure following a national economic census which found a large underestimation of the country’s thriving and largely private services sector. The revision is also expected to show the economy is less reliant on investment and more driven […]
Read MoreFrom a Los Angeles Times editorial: There’s something about the international spotlight that spurs Chinese officials to admit wrongdoing, raising doubts about whether they would have done anything without the glare. Last month, Beijing waited until 10 days after the incident to tell the public about a factory explosion that dumped 100 tons of benzene […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Today, the presence in Kuala Lumpur of a rising China and resurgent India and the absence of the United States, which has played the role of an Asia-Pacific hegemon since the end of the World War II, suggest we are on the cusp of a new era. The inaugural East Asian summit […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has initiated a program to evaluate the ecological impact of the Songhua River water pollution in northeast China and put forward countermeasures, said a senior environmental official said here Tuesday. The evaluation program is “an urgent and arduous job” that needs the joint efforts of related departments, said Zhu Guangyao, deputy director […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Boston.com: The violence Dec. 6 in Dongzhou, northeast of Hong Kong, was the deadliest in a series of confrontations throughout China between police and villagers angry at corruption and land seizures.Witnesses said police fired rounds for more than 12 hours as thousands demonstrated over inadequate compensation for land used to build a […]
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