From BBC: China’s rapid economic growth has left its rivers polluted and more than 300 million people without clean drinking water, a top lawmaker has said… The lawmaker, Sheng Huaren, said laws to prevent pollution had failed. Beijing has asked local authorities to improve water standards, but with no promise of funding it is unlikely […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: Hundreds of Chinese villagers have marched on a battery factory which they say is poisoning their children and held 1,000 workers hostage, residents and officials said. About 600 people from Jianxia village in the eastern province of Zhejiang took control of the Zhejiang Tianneng Battery company and barricaded workers inside, resident […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: 800 million farmers are expected to be exempted from agriculture tax in 2005, said Finance Minister Jin Renqing Tuesday in his report to an on-going meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the first five months’ national fiscal revenue and expenditure situation. “To date, China has lately exempted 19 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 2,300 Chinese journalists have signed a letter challenging a provincial court to release two colleagues jailed on corruption charges they say were trumped up after a series of hard-hitting stories. The letter, dated June 8, said Yu Huafeng and Li Minying of the outspoken Southern Metropolis Daily were innocent and called […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China’s government may issue a new strategy next month to encourage development in the online gaming industry, the China Daily reported, citing an official at the Ministry of Culture. Zhang Xinjian, deputy director general of the department of the culture market under the ministry, was cited as saying that his department, […]
Read MoreFrom Hubei Daily, translated by Three Gorges Probe: The people of Wangusi village on the Xiangxi River, a major Yangtze tributary 45 kilometres upstream of the Three Gorges dam, have seen their way of life dramatically altered by the filling of the reservoir. The 2,890 villagers, in 804 households, have faced tremendous difficulty getting across […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: From next week, carmakers in China will be required to meet stricter standards for engines than those in the US. The new engine rules are part of a raft of measures Beijing is preparing for the sector. It is easy to understand why Beijing is talking tough with the carmakers. A […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A Chinese central government spokesman said here on Wednesday that any possible meeting between President Hu Jintao and Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian should be held on “our own soil.” “The Taiwan issue is an internal issue of the Chinese people, so any such meeting should only occur on our own soil,” said Li […]
Read MoreInside Zhongnanhai, the secretive leadership compound, photo series from bbs.tom.com.
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: All across China, the debate is erupting. With the latest high-tech spying equipment proliferating, and with an estimated 200,000 surveillance cameras installed in Shanghai alone, Chinese citizens are beginning to fight back. For the first time, they are asserting the newfound notion of privacy. Until recently, China’s Communist regime could […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily Online reports that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will visit China from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 and attend the 13th workshop on human rights in the Asia- Pacific region at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing. This was announced by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In 1978, Chinese troops went into Vietnam to “teach Hanoi a lesson”, completing a full circle of bilateral relations that went from almost complete integration to enmity. China was putting pressure on Vietnam, which itself had invaded Cambodia and forcibly changed the regime there. China’s move, taken in agreement with and […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: There was once a political joke in the United States: How to make a smartly dressed Senator fly into a rage? The answer is: Let the Chinese buy up an American company! Nowadays, there is a “ready version” for the joke: At a hearing on US-China economic ties held by the […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News Online: The Australian Government has rejected an invitation from the Bush administration to participate in top-secret talks about how to deal with the rise of China. Australia is apparently worried the meetings will offend China. In June 2003, the Bush administration decided it would be a good idea to hold private, regular […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via Frank Braun on Brasil: Brazil has yet to decide whether it will export uranium to China, or build more nuclear reactors despite recent reports in the Brazilian and international media.
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