From London Review of Books, via A Glimpse of the World: It is clear that many of Chang and Halliday’s claims are based on distorted, misleading or far-fetched use of evidence. They state, for example, that the Chinese Communist Party ‘was founded in 1920’, and not, as is usually said, in 1921 – a point […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: As I was reading through the headline stories this morning, I was surprised by the number of mentions of compact discs. What part do compact discs (CDs) play in socio-politico-economico-cultural sphere of life? The project uses the Yahoo! search engines in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively, to retrieve all stories with […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: In the privacy of the Yellow Oval Room in the White House residence overlooking the Washington Monument one day last week, President Bush hosted one of China’s archenemies. The Dalai Lama gave him a white scarf called a khata as a token of respect. Bush served tea and sipped from a […]
Read MoreFrom Fazhi Wanbao, via Press Interpreter: Thirty-seven foreign teachers in Beijing took their driver’s licence exam on transportation codes at the Office of Vehicle Management, Bureau of Transportation Administration this morning. An additional exam was held for a special batch of examinees at the Office of Vehicle Management this morning. 37 foreign teachers of Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua net: More than 10,000 people were evacuated to safe places on Sunday after explosions at a chemical plant in Jilin City of northeast China’s Jilin Province. A witness said that a series of blasts took place at a workshopin No. 101 Chemical Plant under the Jilin Petroleum and Chemical Company from 2:00 p.m. […]
Read MoreFrom China Labour Bulletin: China Lawyers’ Net recently released a report showing that a rural migrant worker, seeking to recover unpaid wages, would need to spend about three times the amount owed him to have any chance of success. These figures add to the sense of injustice and tragedy evoked by the case of Wang […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Science has always fascinated me. As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked. When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same scrutiny […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: Chinese President Hu Jintao rounded off his trip to Germany by visiting the industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia where he was to see how former coal-mining regions have been transformed. Hu flew to the western region from Berlin, where he held talks on Friday with chancellor-to-be Angela Merkel and the […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times: Today (November 8) is the fourth day since the barbaric persecution by individuals from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice against my firm and myself became public. I had just returned from defending renowned journalist Zheng Yichun, who had been sentenced and illegally detained for his speech, when I received a […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: President George W. Bush would like to attend Christian religious services with Chinese worshipers during his upcoming trip to Beijing, a senior US administration official said. “The president will look for an opportunity to worship with Chinese citizens,” the official said on condition of anonymity. Bush has vowed to push […]
Read MoreFrom Straits Times, via AsiaMedia: The competition to become the No. 1 search engine in China heated up yesterday after Alibaba.com Corp relaunched Yahoo! China’s home page to focus mainly on searching the Internet. Yahoo!, Beijing-based Baidu.com and Mountain View-based Google are all vying to become the dominant search engine for China’s 103 million Internet […]
Read MoreFrom AlterNet: The nude black-and-white photograph of the young Chinese woman is gritty and amateurish. She sits in front of her computer with her face turned away from the camera. A large potted plant obscures her waist. “Women on the Internet are always lonely,” says the caption. The photograph and caption are from the blog […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Back after five years to promote his new book, Hong Kong’s last governor is still a star, write Kevin Rafferty and Mark Clifford. Pictures by Simon Song I t was a reception, well to be more accurate, a mobbing, that any rock star would long for – crowds of young girls, with […]
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