From the Associate Press: “Despite a fatality rate 100 time higher than that of the U.S., Chinese officials insist safety standards are improving in that country’s mines. (photo courtesy www.asianlabour.org) BEIJING (AP) – Fires, floods and other disasters killed 5,286 Chinese miners in the first 11 months of this year but safety in the accident- […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: “Now, for the first time on a wide scale, Chinese may pursue a spouse of their own choosing. Only 2 in 10 young Chinese used to choose their life partner; today, 9 in 10 say they have or will, according to a China Daily report. Along with this, a discourse of […]
Read MoreOn Project Syndicate, Cynthia Li wrote: “There is no quick-fix solution to ending China’s AIDS crisis. Officials there must focus not only on developing a pragmatic, realistic healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, but also on bringing about greater openness in China’s media in order to spread life-saving public information. Like all epidemics, HIV/AIDS in China […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Yu Jie, Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zuhua were taken from their homes on Monday and held for about 12 hours. The three men are well-known intellectuals, some of the most critical voices in the public sphere. These detentions could kill any hopes for a period of political relaxation under party leader Hu Jintao. […]
Read MoreVia Yahoo News: Asia Pulse – Highlights of today’s Chinese newspapers.
Read MoreFrom China National News: “A spate of editorial resignations and replacements at outspoken newspapers in China appears to be a sign of tightening media controls, Hong Kong reports say. Li Xueqian, editor-in-chief of the China Youth Daily, known for reporting official corruption, was asked to resign early this month, the South China Morning Post reported […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “In 2004 China’s economic and social development is the best in the past more than 10 years. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by about 9.5 per cent with the urban unemployment rate well controlled below 5 per cent and a big-margin increase for the farmers’ income, which has not been […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Daily News: “Fewer and fewer Chinese are reading books as they have little time and get distracted by new media such as the Internet, state media reported. Only 51.7 percent of all literate Chinese are in the habit of reading books, the Xinhua news agency said, citing a survey of 6,000 people […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times Online: “In a country where the Communist Party still tries – increasingly without success – to control just about everything, especially the media, the Internet is slipping beyond its grasp. Enraged, the party propagandists have declared war on the Internet deployed, it claims, as a weapon against the state. China has […]
Read MoreFrom the Associate Press, via Canidian Press: “Japan plans to explore natural gas fields in a disputed area of the East China Sea that rival China has also been surveying, Japanese media said Tuesday, amid growing tensions between the two countries. Tokyo has earmarked about 23 billion yen, or $219 million US, in its budget […]
Read MorePaul Mooney wrote on Asia Times online: “As intellectuals, activists and netizens continue to defy Chinese Communist Party efforts to maintain its monopoly on the truth, freedom of expression is coming under fierce pressure not seen in recent years. The party’s determination to fetter them was revealed on Monday when three outspoken intellectuals were detained […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “More Japanese people believe Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister, should continue to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine in defiance of Chinese pressure than believe he should stop, in a poll that reflects Japan’s hardening attitude towards China. According to a survey by NHK, the public broadcaster, 46 per cent of the Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, by Colin Galloway: “China has never been known as the friendly face of the Internet. Police and government agencies go to great lengths to control how citizens get online and how they act when they do, actively persecuting dissidents, closing thousands of Internet cafes, and creating a vast and technically dazzling cyber-edifice […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Chinese authorities briefly detained at least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on government critics. The Communist Party, which has monopolized politics in China since 1949, recently ordered newspapers and magazines not to give publicity to prolific author Yu Jie and five […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo News: “Climate change could cut China’s food production 10 percent by 2050, said an official report at a major UN conference here. Given current conditions, the damage would hit China between 2030 and 2050. ”
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