From the Voice of America: China’s attitude toward AIDS and the HIV virus that causes it has changed dramatically since it finally admitted two years ago that the country was facing a serious problem. Now the government in Beijing is eager to prove it is tackling the spread of the virus. However, many say the […]
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Read MoreFrom ESWN: There are plenty of articles published in the west about the Internet and freedom of speech in China. So what is the influence of these articles back within China? What about any feedback? … The following is a translation of an article of the type that you will probably never get to read […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Star: China continues to forcibly evict people to make way for new buildings despite fears among its leaders that it could spark unrest, with 400,000 moved from Beijing Olympic venue sites, a rights group said on Tuesday. Handing China, Zimbabwe and the Indian state of Maharashtra its annual “housing rights violator […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China plans to merge three major networks – Internet, telecommunications and broadcasting – into one in the next five years, said a telecommunications expert yesterday. The merger of three networks has been included into the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), which is still in the making, said Song Junde, professor at […]
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Read MoreFrom Business Week: As the recent benzene spill shows, worsening pollution increasingly endangers Chinese citizens, and their spreading anger is worrying Beijing. The 50-mile long slick of highly poisonous benzene and nitrobenzene clogging China’s Songhua River finally cleared the city of Harbin on Nov. 27, and drinking water was turned back on for the far […]
Read MoreFrom the Fall 2005 issue of the National Interest: Because of its size, rate of change, unanticipated success and political coloration, China has become the poster child for those aspects of globalization that threaten the...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The president’s just-concluded Asian trip bore signs that his devotion to democracy is beginning to shape American strategy beyond the “greater Middle East,” calling into question the policy of economic engagement and the belief in the democratizing power of free trade that Washington has followed up until now. And military preparations […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: The environmental disaster that has unfolded over the past two weeks in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin has the makings of a great story: explosion at large petrochemical plant releases toxic pollutants into...
Read MoreFrom AP, via CBS News: Despite tap water being turned back on in Harbin, the Chinese city whose water was turned off for five days after being polluted with a toxic cocktail of chemicals, residents are wary. And the spill ” which includes cancer-causing benzene ” will remain frozen in the Songhua River until spring, […]
Read MoreFrom SBS – The World News: China has reported two new outbreaks of bird flu, bringing the total number of confirmed outbreaks in the country to 29 this year. One outbreak occurred in the northwestern Xinjiang region and the other in central China’s Hunan province, a statement on the agriculture ministry’s website said. This topic […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: For the big-city mayors, it should have been disastrous news. A poll had found their approval ratings below 35 per cent. Their honesty had been ranked even lower, with less than 16 per cent seeing them as incorruptible. In the West, these kinds of poll numbers would spell political death. […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online With much publicity and drum-beating in local media, China announced last month the completion of one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in its history: the Qinghai-Tibet (or Qingzang) Railway (see map below), which connects enclosed, remote Tibet with the rest of China via the city of Golmud, in Qinghai province. […]
Read MoreSonghua River, next to a plant of Jilin Petrochemical Company, via boxun.com.
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