From The New York Times: Four days after a lethal assault on protesters by paramilitary forces, a village in southern China remained under heavy police lockdown on Saturday. Residents of the village, Dongzhou, interviewed by telephone from this nearby city, said the police continued to make arrests and bar outsiders from their hamlet.The authorities have […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Pressure on Western firms to improve conditions at factories in China is paying off, experts say, with some firms granting workers rights that are still taboo for most employees in the Communist state. After being faced with boycotts in the 1990s, many foreign companies adopted stricter labour codes to counter accusations by consumers […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: They have been banned, censored, gagged and imprisoned. They have suffered, mentally and physically, for their art. But, as China has opened its arms to the West in the past 10 years, and relaxed its cultural stranglehold, Chinese artists’ fight for expression has finally paid off. An emerging generation of YCAs […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside. Villagers said that as many as 50 other residents […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Hundreds of villagers incited by a few instigators violently attacked a wind power plant on Dec. 6, and assaulted the police, the Information Office of the city government of Shanwei in south China’s Guangdong Province said here Saturday. In an investigation report of the incident, the office called the armed assault a serious […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Businessmen from the Chinese city of Harbin are planning to sue the state-owned chemical company blamed for poisoning the water supply. Water to the city was cut off last month after an explosion at the plant allowed 100 tonnes of benzene to spill into the Songhua river. The businessmen’s lawyer told the […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Some hot topics come and go: the End of History; Imperial Overstretch; Europe as Venus, the US as Mars. And some keep coming back, sometimes after long pauses. The Rise of China is back, with a vengeance, in...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Visitors to Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan province, see a burgeoning city in the making, with a fast-rising population of 6.5 million. The streets are jammed with traffic – including countless cars – and hundreds of high-rises shine at night. There are tens of thousands of shops, cafes and restaurants lining […]
Read MoreFrom AP, from theStar.com: Two coal mine managers have been arrested in connection with one of China’s deadliest recent mining disasters, a gas explosion that killed 166 miners last year, a news report said Saturday. The explosion ripped through the Chenjiashan Coal Mine in the northwestern city of Tongchuan on Nov. 28, 2004. Liu Shuangming, […]
Read MoreFrom The Beijing Review: China’s real estate sector wants more foreign capital and freedom from restrictive policies that stymied many investment attempts. Real estate sector is maintaining its high-speed pace of development The hype about foreign investment in China’s real estate industry is as impressive as the buildings that seem to sprout overnight in big […]
Read MoreFrom The Beijing Review: China’s household registration system needs even-handed reforms to give rural migrants the same benefits as urban dwellers. China first implemented the system of residence permits in the 1950s, also known as hukou, to specifically avoid extensive rural-to-urban migration, considered at the time a move that would hamper the nation’s development. The […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Two weeks of treaty talks on global warming neared an end on Friday with the world’s current and projected leaders in emissions of “greenhouse gases,” the United States and China, still refusing to take any mandatory steps to avoid dangerous climate change. The Bush administration was sharply criticized by other […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Expresses: China had almost convinced the world that after the disastrous consequences of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) cover-up in 2003, it had given up its secretive ways. When the threat of an avian influenza epidemic began to manifest itself, Beijing pledged its full cooperation to the World Health Organisation. And […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s foreign minister has cancelled a meeting with Japan and South Korea in protest at repeated visits by Japan’s leader to a controversial war shrine. The meeting was to have been held on the sidelines of an Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) summit which formally begins next week.
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: At the upcoming 11th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, the annual trilateral meeting of Chinese, Japanese and South Korean leaders gets aborted for the first time. Both China and South Korea believe that the three-party conference will be meaningless given the Japanese Prime Minister’s continuous shrine visits. However, Tokyo responded not […]
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