A working Chinese investigative journalist, Yao Haiying, has blogged his thoughts about Lu Banglie, who he knew as a fellow Hubei native. Here is a quick translation of part of his post (original Chinese below): I don’t want to say too much, after all Lu Banglie is just a small person in China. But he […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily Online: The opening of the Chinese Culture Festival in the United States is extraordinary, in the month-long period of time, Chinese culture will have a face-to-face exchange with the American people. This activity, so far the largest in the history of Sino-US cultural exchange, creates an unprecedented sensation in the concept of “soft […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing: As China’s National Day approaches, just when holiday cheer should be in the air, Beijing Youth Daily employees are anything but cheerful. Since June, six of their managers have been detained for involvement in economic crimes, including two vice-presidents and a director of advertising. Zheng Yijun, vice president of Beijing Media (Hong Kong […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China’s tough handling of recent protests by villagers in Taishi, southern Guangdong province, has thrown into fresh doubt its claims to be introducing genuine democracy “from the bottom up”. Direct elections of local officials by almost a million villages across the country have in recent years been widely welcomed as a possible […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via chinaknowledge.com: Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party will aim to narrow the gap between rich and poor in a five-year economic development plan to be discussed at a meeting in Beijing this weekend. The Party, led by President Hu Jintao, will support a blueprint to pursue “rapid” economic growth during the 11th […]
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Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: For many, China’s fast-paced economic reform is a source of constant anxiety. In a caricature of the debate, “blockhead” economists cheer on China’s reformers, while the more culturally and socially “aware” wring their hands, worried sick because of potential social upheavals. Not a few Cassandras forecast imminent civil eruptions. Throwing tens of millions […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: TOKYO – Moves between Japan and China over the development of the Mekong River basin show signs of intensifying as Tokyo is trying to regain some ground lost in recent years to Beijing in the economic backwater of East Asia. Japan inaugurated a regular economic ministerial meeting with four countries in the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: More than seven percent of China’s total population age 65 or above, which has posed a big problem to the country’s work for the aged, said a senior Chinese official here Sunday. “The aging problem has come around not only somewhat earlier but also developed rapidly,” said Hui Liangyu, vice premier of the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Mercury News: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il received a message from China’s president and met a high-ranking delegation from Beijing for talks expected to deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear program, the North’s state media reported Sunday… The Chinese delegation, led by Vice Premier Wu Yi and including Beijing’s main nuclear negotiator, […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A journalist with the British newspaper, The Guardian, was beaten and had his mobile phone smashed last night during an attempt to visit the village of Taishi in Guangdong Province, the scene of an acrimonious dispute over a lucrative land deal. According to information received by Interfax, a Chinese citizen was killed in […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph.co.uk: Tens of thousands of Chinese web surfers have been introduced to a new internet craze by the country’s notorious online sex diarist, a writer known as Muzimei. As if running her intimate weblog describing her promiscuous encounters with more than 140 strangers were not enough, 27-year-old Li Li has now gone one step […]
Read MoreFrom The Register: China has ordered telcos to purge spam SMSes of smut and other “unhealthy” influences, including “superstitious content” like fortune telling. The Ministry of Information Industry made the pronouncement today on its website which declared: “Recently, there has been a lot of dirt hidden in the telecommunication networks. The situation is serious.” The […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: A recent survey shows that for about 39.3 percent of Chinese kids and youngsters, online activities are the preferred pastime, China Youth Daily reported Saturday. The online activities listed in the survey, jointly conducted by the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and a research center […]
Read MoreFrom The Economic Times: In peak periods such as this week’s National Day holiday, when a fully loaded passenger jet lands or takes off at the Beijing Capital International Airport every minute, the strain begins to show....
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