From UPI, via the Washington Times: “Former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has been dead eight days, but the government and his family are at odds over how to bury him.” The Reuters also reported...
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: “Taiwan’s new prime minister, Frank Hsieh, pledged Tuesday to seek reconcilation with China as well as with political foes at home. ‘Taiwan’s politics are experiencing a deadlock with the people disappointed at, and tired of, the power struggle between political parties,’ Hsieh said. ‘We need a new scheme, a new […]
Read MoreFrom SI.com : “China punished 17 athletes last year for using performance-enhancing drugs, imposing penalties that ranged from fines to competition bans of up to two years, the government said Monday. China carried out 4,003 drug tests on athletes in 2004, the Chinese Olympic Committee anti-doping office said in an announcement reported by the official […]
Read MoreFrom TBO.com: “China’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in eight years in 2004, growing at an annual rate of 9.5 percent despite efforts to slow its blistering pace in order to avert inflation, the government said Tuesday. The figures exceeded economists’ forecasts and were well above the official target of 8 percent.” Australia’s Herald […]
Read MoreFrom Sify.com: “As the first-ever Sino-India strategic dialogue concluded with the desire to address differences in a ‘fair and reasonable’ manner, China expressed hope that both sides will make ‘new moves’ to find an early solution to the vexed boundary issue. ‘We hope that with India’s co-operation, we will be able to solve the border […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “One of the Chinese citizens sought for questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed threat against the city of Boston has been in United States custody for more than two months, the F.B.I. said on Saturday. Mei Xia Dong has been located in a Customs and Border Protection detention facility […]
Read MoreFrom Donga.com: “The agreement between the bereaved family and Chinese authorities on the funeral schedule for the former Chinese Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang, has not been concluded eight days after his death. A source from Beijing said on January 24 that “the bereaved family not only asked to re-assess Zhao Ziyang through a funeral […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “The number of passengers is expected to reach 1.97 billion during China’s Spring Festival transport season, a 40-day period due to beginning on Tuesday, according to forecast of Chinese transport departments. The number is up 3.4 percent over that of last year.”
Read MoreFrom Yahoo! News: “Zhao’s death could yet become a rallying point for change. After all, the Tiananmen Square movement itself sprang from the spontaneous outpouring of grief following the death of Zhao’s reformist predecessor, Hu Yaobang. Similar protests followed Zhou Enlai’s death in 1976. ‘To mourn Zhao is to defend human rights,’ Bao Tong, one […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: “Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend are in good spirits and will return home soon via Jordan, state media say. The eight, kidnapped this month after arriving in Iraq from the southeastern province of Fujian in search of work, were received by Chinese diplomats at a mosque in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “Two senior officials at one of China’s top commercial banks have reportedly disappeared after funds worth up to $120m (¬£64m) went missing. The pair both worked at Bank of China in the northern city of Harbin, the South China Morning Post reported. The latest scandal at Bank of China will do nothing […]
Read MoreFrom iafrica.com: “Several dissidents who planned to commemorate the death of deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang have been detained while other activists are under house arrest, they said on Monday. Zhao, ousted for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died a week ago in a Beijing hospital aged 85. His […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “An ailing unemployed worker in this frigid northeastern city, having exhausted all other options, made one final appeal last month, to President Hu Jintao. In careful ideograms penned from his sickbed, Zhao Lizhong pleaded with the most powerful man in the country to pay attention to the poor and powerless, who, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “Last week, President Hu Jintao delivered a eulogy in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People before 700 senior cadres and the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee. The next morning, the front page of The People’s Daily, the party’s mouthpiece, extolled the ‘outstanding achievements’ of the deceased. Such elaborate […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Columbia Daily Tribune: “Authorities are recording the name of anyone visiting a makeshift memorial at the Beijing home of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died this week, a relative said yesterday. Zhao, 85, lived under house arrest for 15 years after being purged for expressing support for pro-democracy demonstrators who […]
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