From The Globe and Mail: Hundreds of riot police are maintaining tight control over all exits from a Chinese village where dozens of protesters were reportedly killed or injured by police gunfire last week.Chinese authorities are keeping an equally tight lid on news media coverage of the bloody crackdown on protesters. Only a single authorized […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: Chinese intellectuals have demanded an inquiry after police shot and killed protesters in a south China village, comparing the violence to the military crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators in 1989.In an open letter posted on the Internet, more than 50 scholars and intellectuals called on authorities to publish the names of the dead, […]
Read MoreFrom WorldNetDaily : Just two weeks before Christmas, the Chinese government yesterday arrested 29 Christians for holding an “illegal religious gathering.” According to the China Aid Association, citing eyewitness reports, 40 law enforcement officers with eight police vehicles raided a house church leadership meeting at Xiapigang Village in China’s Henan Province. Some 100 major church […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via China View: “I have never known so many truths of the Nanjing Massacre before,” said Yang Shou after attending the launch of a new six-part documentary film yesterday. Yang, 28, who lives in Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province, said he was deeply shocked by the film, “1937: The Truth […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: One November morning, the Beijing Judicial Bureau convened a hearing on its decree that one of China’s best-known law firms must shut down for a year because it failed to file a change of address form when it moved offices. The same morning, Gao Zhisheng, the law firm’s founder and […]
Read MorePhoto series: Luotuo christian church was destroyed by the city government of Xinxiang, Henan Province on December 2, 2005; via boxunews.com.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese local search engine Baidu.com has released a list of 13 most popular keywords, according to hits from internet users. The 13 keywords cover nearly every aspect of life in China. The most typed news keyword is “Shenzhou VI Spacecraft”. The hottest event belongs to “Bird Flu”. “The Myth” took the hottest movie […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: When Chinese riot police fired on rural protesters last week in the southern village of Dongzhou, many China watchers instantly drew parallels to the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. But the shootings in Dongzhou — which left at least three protesters dead and eight injured — have much more […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week. To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Three Guangdong villagers were killed by mistake and eight injured because a hard core of protesters incited a “chaotic” nighttime riot that required police to fire warning shots, the mainland’s official media said last night. In the first formal account of violent clashes between police and […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The Jilin deputy mayor due to be questioned by investigators probing the Songhua River spill told his wife the day before he hanged himself he feared he would be jailed, a pro-Beijing newspaper in Hong Kong reported yesterday. Wang Wei, 43, was discovered dead by his […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Reports on the detention of the police commander who led the crackdown on protesters in Dong-zhou village, Shanwei, were carried in only three Guangdong newspapers yesterday. The Guangzhou Daily, the Nanfang Daily and the Yangcheng Evening News all carried the same report — apparently directly issued […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via spacedaily.com: Toxic spills, smog-filled skies and swathes of land reduced to dust – scenes all too common in China, but green experts say the country is finally realising it must stop sacrificing the environment for growth. While the government still struggles to be transparent when environmental disasters strike, China is increasingly worried […]
Read MorePity China’s propaganda-meisters. Since the truth broke that the Songhua River was accidentally spiked with a blast of benzene, the party’s Central Publicity Department (CPD), charged with the somewhat absurd task of covering up a screwed-up cover-up, have tried and failed twice. The mess has only gotten uglier. Now the spokesman who first sounded of […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The protest which triggered a deadly clash between police and farmers in a village in Guangdong, southern China, last week was initially much like thousands of confrontations across the country in recent years. The villagers and their families were demonstrating to demand higher compensation for land seized from them to build […]
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