From the Sydney Morning Herald: Amid secret passwords, mysterious faxes and last-minute arrangements to protect him from the alleged Chinese spy network he once worked for, the asylum seeker Hao Fengjun emerged from hiding to talk of the Secret Force. This force, the 32-year-old Chinese police intelligence analyst says, runs spies in Australia and other […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: A Shanghai online gamer has been given a suspended death sentence for killing a fellow gamer. Qui Chengwei stabbed Zhu Caoyuan in the chest when he found out he had sold his virtual sword for 7,200 Yuan (£473).
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Chinese cyber-dissident Huang Qi, just freed after serving a five-year jail term for subversion, says he wants to resume his Web site dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. “I will do my best to resume the Tianwang Web site,” Huang told RFA’s Mandarin service after his release from prison in […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Prostitutes are being made the focus of the Ministry of Health’s latest efforts to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to a draft guideline released by the ministry on Monday, prostitutes are to be offered HIV/AIDS and safe-sex education, as well as tests and treatments for sexually transmited diseases. According to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In its latest measure to tighten policing of the Internet, China has begun requiring bloggers and owners of personal Web sites to register with the government or be forced offline. The new regulations, announced in March, took effect this week, with a warning on the Web site of the Information […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: A source within the Hong Kong publishing industry, who deals with topics on China’s politics, gave more detail on the frame-up theory to Asia Times Online. The call Ching responded to, said the source, was from Huang Wei, a woman who assisted in the publishing of a memoir by Zong Fengming, […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: President Hu Jintao has redoubled efforts to crack down on dissent and other destabilizing forces despite the decreased frequency of large-scale anti-government riots after a spate of serious outbreaks last winter. In internal deliberations, both Hu and his predecessor, ex-president Jiang Zemin, have cited Chairman Mao Zedong‘ s classic […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: China is not yet an auto-culture in the mould of the United States. But it may only be a matter of time “CHINA has begun to enter the age of mass car consumption. This is a great and historic advance.” So proclaimed the state-run news agency, Xinhua, last year. Environmentalists may feel […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: Across China traffic has been diverted, building work halted and tens of thousands of extra police have been deployed ” all to ensure that secondary school children get the peace and quiet they need for this year’s university entrance exams. This week more than 8.6 million teenagers will take their seats in […]
Read MoreFrom the Australasian Investment Review: There has been much speculation recently about supposed labour shortages in China, with some headlines declaring factories in the Guangdong province were experiencing a shortfall of as many as two million workers. ¬† However, economist Jim Walker at CLSA Asia Pacific Markets is less than convinced that this is actually […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: China’s Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense(COSTIND) said it will begin issuing licenses to qualified companies on June 15, easing decades of tight state control over weapons-making in the world’s most populous nation. Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, reported that the new policy divides weapon creation and production into […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Pollution and consumption of water in China are growing so fast that more than 100 of the country’s biggest cities could soon be unable to quench the thirst of their populations, a cabinet minister warned yesterday. Qiu Baoxing, deputy minister of construction, said urgent action was needed to halt the deterioration of […]
Read MoreFog over the Tuo River, Hunan Province, by Xike, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: Facing fast-growing energy demand and desperate to wean itself off dirty coal, Beijing looks to the atom. But will it be enough? “China would need to build one new 1 gigawatt reactor every week in order to keep pace just with current energy demand growth.” -Jiang Lin, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Guardian: The Chinese authorities have ordered all weblogs and websites in the country to register with the government or face closure in Beijing’s latest attempt to control online dissent. Commercial...
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