From The Standard: Filthy air hung over several areas in Guangdong and Hong Kong, the new pollution index revealed Wednesday. The government’s plan to give residents daily updates on air quality got off to a bad start when a technical hitch at the Environment Protection Department delayed the first bulletin by more than 30 minutes. […]
Read MoreFrom P-I Focus: While the United States has been preoccupied with terrorism and the Middle East, a crisis has been brewing in the Taiwan Strait that could dwarf any the world has seen since World War II. China is steadily...
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Beijing’s invitation to legislators to troop across the border to Shenzhen for a pep talk tomorrow with Qiao Xiaoyang, deputy secretary general of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, in advance of Sunday’s planned pro-democracy march prompted most of Hong Kong’s Chinese- language newspapers Wednesday to urge the democrats to mute their […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog – AEB: China has “opened and reformed” for 25 years. Profound change has also taken place as “open” society gradually has demanded deeper “reform”. Every industry is checking what it has gained after China joined the WTO, and international reactions seem positive. But don’t forget that when China’ s economy tries […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog: In the past fifty years since 1949, political reform was never formally on the agenda in the first thirty. In the last twenty, although it has been mentioned, it has more and more become a great unresolved issue. Furthermore, the core of all political reform is the democratization of the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog: Point three: Only modern politics can save socialism. I believe, basically, socialism has two main goals: a relatively equal distribution of social products, and the democratization of politics. All other things are just means. Some other ends like the development of productive forces are identical with capitalism, and their means are […]
Read MoreFrom PJNet.org: In this Leonard Witt IM Interview, Rob Gifford, NPR’s China correspondent from 1999-2005, talks about the US news media’s coverage of China and tells what worries him most. The interview grew out of a lecture and a seminar he recently gave at Kennesaw State University’s Year of China lecture series.
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: It seemed like such a breath of fresh air when it was announced just a few weeks back that China had changed its policies regarding public information on disasters like typhoons, earthquakes and the like. Henceforth they were to be disclosed promptly and candidly, as opposed to the time-honored practice […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune, via centredaily.com: The residents of Golden Lands, Life Gallery Townhouse and New Health Gardens left the heart of Beijing in search of just what their high-priced new addresses suggested: space, class and clean living. But it wasn’t long before people began noticing a sharp metallic odor in the wind, which scratched […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an article from the Chinese media about the effect of real-name registration on Chinese cyberspace: Prior to the real name system, Luojiashanshui and Beiyunhuanghe can have 10,000 people online at their peaks. After the real name system came into place, the popularity was less than before. Even after a recovery period, the […]
Read MoreFrom China Business Times, translated by Sinofile: Nov. 12, an expert at the Ministry of Health discloses a national medical reform will be launched at the beginning of next year. The basic medical system is supposed to cover 90% of all Chinese people. Rural areas will be a priority for the implementation of the reform. […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times: A blast at a PetroChina plant in north-eastern Jilin province on Nov 13 spilt 100 tonnes of benzene into the Songhua River. Officials waited nine days before they cut Harbin’s water supply and claimed initially that it was for maintenance. They acknowledged the massive water pollution only later. All responsible parties […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: One of the shredded documents the FBI says it recovered from Chi Mak‘s trash seemed to be a set of instructions. Machine printed, in Chinese, it urged Mr. Mak – an engineer for a California defense firm and a naturalized US citizen – to attend more seminars on special subject […]
Read MoreFrom Salon.com: On Friendship Street in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, hundreds of people carrying white canisters, red buckets, plastic bowls and cooking pots wait for a tanker truck. They have been waiting here in the bitter cold since early morning — though the water delivery isn’t scheduled until 11 a.m. Two police officers […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Fang said blogs could improve people’s lives through better information sharing, though most bloggers in China only write about their personal feelings and life. But this could change: a 50-year-old blogger broke the news of a fatal attack on a woman on Beijing’s Wangfujing Road on November 7 last year and many papers […]
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