From Xinhua: Operations similar to the world’s first partial face transplant in France last month could be set for China. After experts from a military hospital in Nanjing announced earlier this week that they have the ability to perform such surgery, the hospital has been inundated with telephone inquiries, according to Chen Fang, a nurse […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio’s Day to Day: The Chinese government fired its environmental protection minister and other officials over the spill of deadly toxic chemicals still coursing through a river in the country’s northeast. The administration of President Hu Jintao has pledged to hold officials accountable, but the handling of the spill suggests local officials […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: The past two or three years have marked a new moment in the global perception of China. There is suddenly a new awareness that encompasses both a recognition of China’s economic transformation and an understanding that, because of its huge size and cohesive character, it will have a profound impact on the […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: Paramilitary police and anti-riot units here have opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles for the past two nights on rioting farmers and fishermen who have attacked them with gasoline bombs and explosive charges, according to residents of this small coastal village. The sustained volleys of gunfire, unprecedented in a wave of […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: If Chinese leaders had been in any doubt about Hong Kong’s hopes for democracy, a protest march by tens of thousands of the territory’s citizens on December 4th will have set them right. The huge demonstration was also a deep embarrassment for the territory’s new chief executive, Donald Tsang, who has tried to […]
Read MoreFrom Newindpress.com: More young women are taking up journalism as a career in China where women journalists account for 41 percent of the total workforce in the media. According to a recent survey by the General Administration of Press and Publication of China (GAPP), 29 percent of women journalists are under 30 years of age. […]
Read MoreFrom the Manila Times via East Asia News: Thousands of Chinese who petition the authorities for redress of grievances are attacked, intimidated and detained, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. Activists trying to help them are also beaten and arrested, according to the report by the international watchdog entitled: “We Could Disappear […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation’s recent attempted acquisition of Unocal raised American fears that China could challenge American energy security. Inside the beltway, conventional wisdom said spiking such Chinese deals would make the United States safer. Torpedoed by concerted lobbying by energy firms and administration China hawks, the deal was […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: What is usually lost in the fashionable discussions comparing India and China as models of economic growth and development is the fact that development is not solely about shiny surfaces and broad roads. China has indeed outstripped India by these criteria, but perhaps even more significantly, it has transformed its formerly […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: The following is an illustration of the level of details in coverage by English- and Chinese-language media of the same event. The listing is done in order of increasing details within the English-language reports, and then the translated Chinese-reports appear below. I have listed only the sections pertaining to the incident itself […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Freedom in the bedroom is a novel concept in China, where for decades communist minders dictated most aspects of people’s private lives. Dressed in baggy Mao suits–hardly outfits to set the pulse racing–citizens of the People’s Republic had to ask permission from local officials on everything from whom to marry to what […]
Read MoreFrom a New York Times editorial: Zhao Yan, a researcher for the Beijing bureau of The New York Times who has been imprisoned in China for more than a year, was named journalist of the year on Wednesday by the international press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. Mr. Zhao, 43, was arrested in Shanghai […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Media: If US trade officials are critical of China’s aloof attitude toward the upcoming global trade talks, held in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, they have a point. China, as a developing country sharing the West’s desire for broad trade liberalization but perceiving itself as a champion of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A gas explosion at a Chinese coal pit has killed at least 74 miners, state media said on Thursday, notching up another statistic in a grimly predictable series marking the world’s deadliest mining industry. Hours after Xinhua News Agency broke the news of the deaths in northern Hebei province, it said seven miners […]
Read MoreFrom CKNW: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi has come under attack in China for her starring role in the Steven Spielberg-produced Memoirs of a Geisha, the story of a young Japanese girl’s rise from poverty to top geisha. Critics have posted online comments recalling Japan’s brutal invasion of China and denouncing Zhang as […]
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