From Asian Pulse, via China Daily: Experts from China’s Ministry of Information Industry revealed that China is likely to establish real-name system for mobile phone users in December 2005, according to Chen Yuping from the China Academy of Telecommunication Research. It is predicted that more than 100 million mobile phone users in the country, including […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Torture remains widely in use across China, a top UN envoy has said. Manfred Nowak, who has spent nearly two weeks in the country, added that some officials had tried to obstruct his fact-finding efforts. Mr Nowak – the first UN rapporteur on torture allowed in the country – said abuse was […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s cabinet on Friday approved the resignation of Xie Zhenhua, director of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), following a chemical spill that has seriously polluted the country’s northeastern Songhua River. “Xie submitted a resignation request to the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council. The request has been […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Five men on battered motorcycles pulled up at this roadside village from a nearby town and summoned the local headman. Wearing ordinary clothes and bearing boxes of vaccine from two separate manufacturers, they worked their way from house to house, roughly 300 dwellings in all, to vaccinate every chicken, duck […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The November 28 decision by the Bush administration not to name China as a “currency manipulator” has disappointed industry and labor groups here, which say they will resort to international institutions and the US Congress for tougher action. The groups have been seeking an end to China’s alleged manipulation of its […]
Read MoreFrom the Time: Why local leaders kept Harbin ignorant of the reason for turning off its taps. The reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50 mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Globe and Mail: Beijing tried to ease strains with Moscow over a river-borne toxic spill flowing toward Russia by promising Thursday to send filtering materials, while five more Chinese cities prepared to stop drawing water from the river.
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: Walking the streets of Shanghai, it’s easy to see why investors’ appetite for all things China is running so high. As in so many boomtowns past and present, one can practically feel the energy. The sights, sounds and buzz of Shanghai make you wonder if Asia’s No. 2 economy isn’t getting the credit […]
Read MoreESWN has translated two articles from the Chinese press about AIDS in China. From China Youth Daily, “Visiting an AIDS Village in Northern Anhui“: 55-year-old Lu Jingxian sat by his lonesome self on the side of the bed, chewing on the dried bun like an expectant mountain goat bleating away. In the early 1990’s, he […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Steel is the measure of an industrial economy. Or so thought Chairman Mao when, to achieve his utopian Great Leap Forward in 1958, he ordered the masses to quit their communal fields and instead melt woks and teakettles to forge pig iron in farmyard blast furnaces. The man-made famine that followed killed millions. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio New Zealand: Two Chinese coal mine officials have been arrested for alleged dereliction of duty after an explosion that killed at least 164 miners on Sunday. About seven others are still said to be missing, amid conflicting reports about how many people were in the mine. See also “China aims to reassure public […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: China’s Ministry of Information Industry said Sunday that the telephone penetration rate in the countryside had reached 96 percent, state-run media reported. The announcement was made at a rural telephone conference involving vice premier Huang Ju. He congratulated the ministry for its work bringing phone access to 49,000 administrative villages.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: But little was said or done to alert the rural communities in numerous towns and villages along the Songhua between Jilin and Harbin about the dangerous chemicals flowing in the water. The authorities have offered no estimates on how many people rely on the river for drinking water. After the news […]
Read MorePhoto series: Funeral of yet another AIDS patient in Shangcai of Henan Province, via wenxuecity.com.
Read MoreFrom Pacific News Service: Editor’s Note: As a journalist, Zhao Ling, 30, currently a scholar at UC Berkeley, has made impressive headway uncovering corruption in China. But as the Chinese government cracks down on China’s fledgling media, her efforts are increasingly seen as dangerous and unwelcome. BERKELEY, Calif.–When the knock came at the door, Zhao […]
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