From Reuters: China will release an unemployment rate next year calculated under a method that could double the figure from levels now reported, according to a report in the official China Daily on Saturday. China will start to announce unemployment figures derived using the “investigation method” starting in the second half of next year, the […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: Illegal logging for cheap plywood, furniture is destroying old-growth tracts, reports say. The world’s last remaining rain forests and old-growth forests are being rapidly destroyed by illegal loggers to feed the voracious appetites of Chinese plywood and furniture exporters, two new reports have warned. In just the past few years, […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: Since the spread of the internet in the mid-nineties, privacy concerns have increased exponentially. Cyberspace has often been equated to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, or to a new, digital version of George Orwell’s Big Brother, capable of seeing and controlling everything and everyone. This rather dystopic vision has rightly generated fear and distrust of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will close its borders if it finds a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu there, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Saturday, while a defiant Taiwan said it would copy a patented antiviral...
Read MoreFrom Reporters sans fronti√®res: Reporters Without Borders today called on the Chinese authorities to stop blocking accessing to the website of the independent online encyclopedia Wikipedia, whose popularity has been growing steadily in China. The site has been unavailable in several provinces including Shanghai since 18 October. This latest online censorship paradoxically comes at a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Sometimes a single life can tell more about a country’s experience than a shelfful of history books. Many Chinese people of a certain age have such lives – rich in struggle, in suffering, in the consequences of man’s folly, but often enough, too, in a measure of redemption. “I knew […]
Read MoreNicole Kidman in Hong Kong, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Economist: China is investigating whether its rigid system for assessing the performance of party leaders and civil servants can be used to tackle pollution. An elaborate points system that determines the careers of officials is often blamed for many of China’s problems. In their drive to meet targets for economic growth, local mandarins […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The surge in package tour groups from China, an important source of income for the region, is also giving rise to an unflattering stereotype: the loud, rude and culturally na√Øve Chinese tourist. Sound familiar? The tide of travelers from China mirrors the emergence of virtually every group of overseas tourists […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: There is a very widespread perception that street protests are just the first step in a continuum that leads inexorably to riots and ultimately revolution. But this is misleading, because there is a huge qualitative difference between protests and revolution. Revolution requires more than just an urge to change things; it needs […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaDaily: A spokesman for the Panyu district government, in an interview with www.southcn.com on October 21, revealed a detailed, true story about the Taishi village incident. The following is a digest of the exclusive interview. The spokesman was also interviewed on October 15 on the same matter. The entire process – from the time […]
Read MoreThe University of California at Berkeley is holding a panel discussion today on “China’s Cultural Revolution,” accompanied by an exhibit of photos by Red Guard photographer Li Zhensheng.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld concluded a visit to Beijing on Thursday with an unusual round table with Chinese officers about the two countries’ military abilities and intentions. Mr. Rumsfeld told students and faculty members at the Academy of Military Sciences here that China’s neighbors were worried about its decision […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China commonly frees political prisoners before major state visits, but a human rights activist said on Friday changing attitudes meant there may be no releases ahead of U.S. President George W. Bush’s November trip. The releases are seen as giving Beijing bargaining power before visits as a gesture of goodwill, but John Kamm, […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: The Chairman’s image is dangling from the mirror of the taxi that takes me to Mao’s childhood home in Shaoshan in southern China. “He’s my good luck charm,” grins the driver. However surprising this may seem, it certainly appears to be working. Since China’s State Council designated this year as the year […]
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