From Interfax: The Guangdong Province Department of Education has ordered all university online bulletin boards (BBS) to register the legal names of all students users in Guangdong Province, according to an official statement from the Department of Education of Guangdong Province. Students in Guangdong will have to provide their real name and personal information when […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: Leading economists do not hesitate to give frank advice to China about reforming its economic policies and institutions. A generation ago, this would have been dismissed by many China watchers as both ideologically motivated and pointless. Now, it is routine and, as China wrestles with the enormous challenges of reshaping its economy, […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): The eviction notice gave them one week to get out. Residents, many of them retirement age with nowhere else to go, stayed put and tried in vain to stop the demolition crew… Housing relocations have become a major source of social tension in China. Ordinary Chinese are […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s treatment of Uighurs living in its western region of Xinjiang risks turning the area into a “time bomb”, an exiled Uighur group has said. The World Uighur Congress (WUC) issued the warning as China prepared to celebrate 50 years of rule in Xinjiang. A separate video, allegedly made by the East […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: A Japanese district court on Wednesday ruled that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi‘s visits to a controversial war shrine violates the constitution. The decision was handed down in a suit filed by 211 plaintiffs in the Kyushu region in west Japan who claimed the premier’s visitto the Yasukuni Shrine on August 13 of […]
Read MoreXinjiang Uighurs leave a mosque after prayer, via duowei.com
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Read Morefrom AFP, via Taipei Times Hundreds of petitioners have been rounded up in Beijing as authorities sweep the capital to ensure trouble-free celebrations for the National Day holiday, dissidents and a rights group said yesterday. The week-long holiday beginning tomorrow is the most politically important holiday in China, marking the Oct. 1 founding of the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters China’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s second largest, continued to swell in August, a newspaper reported on Friday, suggesting little relief in upward pressure on the yuan since its revaluation in July. Hot money is still flowing strongly into the economy as a bet on further currency appreciation, the data, reported by the […]
Read MoreFrom US Department of State Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. Zheng Bijian, Chair of the China Reform Forum, who over some decades has been a counselor to China’s leaders. We have spent many hours in Beijing and Washington discussing China’s course of development and Sino-American relations. It […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Weekly “Aren’t we Chinese great? They said it couldn’t be done. And yet we’ve not only done it, we’ve done it ahead of plan.” We are two hours, several beers and half a roasted duck into a journey on the overnight express from Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, travelling along the completed […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily: Shannxi Provincial Achives in northwest China opened secret files, including those about the 1966 to 1976 Cultural Revolution, for public reference Saturday. The 58,497-volume files covers archives of 58 institutions, such as those of the provincial revolutionary commission on personnel matters and institutional setup during the 1966 to 1976 Cultural […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua China’s rapid economic growth, brought about by the adoption of market mechanisms, is quite likely to continue in the coming years, said a report offered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) during an ongoing anti-corruption conference here in Beijing. In the past more than two decades, China’s economic growth has […]
Read MoreFrom Scotsman: FOR more than 2,000 years his beliefs shaped Chinese society, until Communist rulers decided his teachings were unsound. But now Confucius‘ wisdom is being brought back to help cure the ills of modern life. Born this week in 551BC, in what is now the coastal province of Shandong, Confucius’ teachings of good governance […]
Read MoreFrom New Straits Times : IN the 1980s, when I was a Beijing-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, I had occasion to interview an official in Shanghai. How much of China’s trade, I asked, was through Shanghai? The official responded: “I don’t think that figure has appeared in the newspapers.” That official was keeping […]
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