From The Washington Post: I Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made an unannounced visit to this beleaguered city Saturday to pledge his support as a long slick of toxic river water continued moving through town. But he offered no explanation for the government’s attempt to cover up a chemical spill that has left millions here without […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Sun-Times: China’s leaders sent a team to investigate a chemical plant accident that poisoned a major river, saying officials responsible will be punished, as the 3.8 million residents of this northeastern city endured a fourth frigid day without running water Saturday. Hundreds of villagers were being evacuated near Harbin on the Songhua […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: Hundreds of thousands of people living in towns and villages along the upper reaches of the Songhua river were allowed to continue using toxic water for more than a week, even though authorities knew that benzene levels were lethally high, Chinese officials have admitted. Anger was growing in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the New York Times: China’s northeastern city of Harbin turned on the taps again on Sunday after a toxic spill into its river left millions without water for five days and an 80-km (50-mile) slick still flowing beyond the city. Water supplies in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, were resumed at 1000 […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The huge chemical spill in the Songhua River that threatens the water supply of Harbin, an old industrial city located in China’s frigid, northeastern corridor, has focused attention on the environmental and economic challenges faced by the country’s withering rust belt. Long before Harbin’s officials were forced to confront the […]
Read MoreFrom The SPIEGEL, translated from the German by Christopher Sultan: Rebiya Kadeer is fighting to bring the Chinese leadership before an international human rights tribunal. She accuses the regime of repressing the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in northwest China. Ablikim walks through the city of his childhood, looking for a place where he can feel […]
Read MoreFrom The SPIEGEL Special: Globalization, the New World: China’s overwhelming ambition is to become an economic superpower. Everything takes second place to this goal, not least the well-being of the people laboring toward it. They earn little and have even less say. Yet waves of willing workers continue to deluge the country’s industrial regions.
Read MoreFrom The SPIEGEL: Henry Paulson, CEO of the investment bank Goldman Sachs discusses global imbalances, the rise of China and German pessimism. SPIEGEL: Mr. Paulson, the global economy is shaky: China is flooding the world with cheap products. The Americans have to finance their spending sprees with loans, and worried Germans are saving every euro […]
Read MoreFrom The South Morning China Post, via AsiaMedia: CCTV growth rate in advertising revenue slowed to reveal ad buyers’ reluctance to spend bulk of budget on network Intense competition in the advertising market has slowed revenue growth at China Central Television (CCTV) where an auction for next year’s time slots fell short of its six […]
Read More1000 soldiers drafted in this weekend to stack 300 tons of filters at a waterworks in Harbin, via boxun.com
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: A massive chemical spill in China pits activists and an increasingly aggressive media against the government. Even before the disaster hit, Hu Fengbin was ready to sue. The Beijing lawyer had long suspected that a petrochemical plant upriver from his home in Harbin was spewing pollution into the river. When he heard […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The government on Thursday blamed China’s biggest oil company for a pollution spill that allowed an 80-kilometer slick of toxic benzene to reach this northern city of almost four million people on a river that normally supplies it with running water. In this increasingly unwashed and unflushed city, residents continued […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: A THOUSAND Chinese soldiers were drafted in this weekend to stack 300 tons of filters at a waterworks in the industrial city of Harbin in a desperate effort to solve a pollution crisis that has cut off water to more than 3m people. Mains supplies were shut off for a fifth […]
Read MoreFrom China Labour Bulletin Nearly 2,000 retired cadres staged a protest outside the Shenzhen municipal government on 24 November against unfair pension payment arrangement. The retired cadres complained that employees in state-owned enterprises and government agencies received pension payments three times more than they did although they belonged to the same rank. They said the […]
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