From Radio Free Asia: A Hong Kong activist who has organized several mass marches for more democracy since the 1997 handover to China, says hackers from within mainland China have tampered with his e-mail account, raising fears that Beijing’s Internet police are extending their reach to the former British colony. Chong Yiu-kwong, a key figure […]
Read MoreFrom The New Yorker, via A Glimpse of the World: When the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or cnooc, made an $18.5-billion bid for the American oil company Unocal two weeks ago, topping a previous offer of $16.5 billion from Chevron, a political storm was inevitable. The Chinese government owns seventy per cent of cnooc […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Boston.com: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which groups Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, urged a deadline be set for withdrawal of the foreign forces from its member states in light of what it said was a decline in active fighting in Afghanistan. The alliance’s move appeared to be an attempt […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pacific Media Network, Tom Plate wrote: Only lately have the American people awoken to the fact that China is no longer asleep. These days, Chinese officials on the mainland seem to be developing a keen sense of humor. Just the other day, in response to a series of violent protests by farmers in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Increased shipping, spurred by the country’s expanding economy, is creating unprecedented levels of pollution, a situation China’s Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) is working to remedy. Speaking yesterday, Liu Gongchen, deputy director-general of MSA, said his administration is working to establish a compensation regime for oil pollution from ships to guarantee financial support for […]
Read MoreFrom The Spiked: From his victory over the nationalist Kuomintang in 1949 to his death in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Tse-tung has exercised a morbid grip over the imagination of the Western intelligentsia. Just released on DVD is French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1), a bizarre but fascinating […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via sundaytimes.co.za: During her visit home for Chinese New Year, Gan Xiaoge’s parents lined up five suitors for her, hoping the migrant worker, already considered an old maid in her village, would finally get married. “I met one man a day, but I didn’t like any of them. They were either construction workers […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Boys and girls between 14 and 20 in urban China have their first sexual experience at the average age of 17.4, nearly 9 years earlier than their grandparents when they were young, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The survey of 2,252 respondents in seven Chinese cities shows that people between 51 […]
Read MoreHandicapped man fixing bicycle in the rain, from ngochina.net
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: There are still 26.1 million rural residents living in absolute poverty in China, 49.77 million with low income and over 22 million urban residents covered by subsistence allowances, Li Xuju, Chinese Minister of Civil Affairs revealed at a national working conference.
Read MoreFrom china.org.cn : According to research reported by China Youth Daily on June 26, the education gap between urban and rural areas is increasing even faster than differences in economic development, despite central government efforts. Drop-out rates in 17 rural middle schools were recorded by the survey. The highest rate was 74 percent, and the […]
Read MoreFrom The Press Trust of India: Over 90 per cent of private businesses in China are family owned with the younger generation dominating the Communist trading giant’s global push. Family-run businesses form the core of China’s private enterprises. More than 90 per cent of three million plus such businesses are family owned and among such […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Over 85 percent of medium-size and small stock investors in China have incurred losses in the first half of the year, with their loss rates ranging between 30 to 50 percent, the China Securities Journal reported here Monday. Citing a survey on 2,792 investors in 20 major cities by the Huading Market Survey […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Africa Leader: China risks serious social instability unless it quickly tackles widespread discontent over worsening pollution and officially-backed land requisitions that have sparked major public demonstrations, analysts and environmentalists say. Violent public protests throughout China are happening with increasing regularity as anger erupts at what is seen as the ruling Communists […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: The following is a report of a riot in the city of Chizhou (Anhui province) on June 26, 2005. This event is well-documented because it took place in a medium-sized city beginning in the middle of the day. It was not a flash event because it built up gradually to a crescendo. […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
