From Reuters: “China’s security chief has urged officials to heed the grievances of their communities, state media reported on Friday, in the wake of a series of violent protests that undermine efforts to maintain stability. ……Chinese media are barred from reporting on most protests and the editorial made no mention of specific incidents, but there […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: “The Propaganda Department lost its patience after a magazine in Guangdong Province, Southern People Weekly, published a list of 50 Chinese public intellectuals in September. The market economy, said an accompanying commentary, had caused the rapid marginalisation of intellectuals. ‘But this is the time when China is facing the most problems in its […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Taiwan’s voters go to the polls on Saturday for parliamentary elections which could shape the way the island handles relations with China.” “All 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan are being contested, in the first electoral test since March’s disputed presidential race. President Chen Shui-bian narrowly won then, and his DPP hopes now […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “China’s HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened and is now spreading dangerously into the general population, reported CCTV today, citing Chinese Ministry of Health and the United Nations AIDS office in China as the news source.”
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Media leaders from 16 overseas Chinese-language newspapers yesterday pledged stronger co-operation to drive their development to meet a growing demand for information about China across the globe. They also called for the wider presence of Chinese language media abroad to strengthen China’s image in a balanced way and strengthen its relations with […]
Read MoreFrom Agence France-Presse: “Thirty-three workers were killed after a gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province, work safety administration officials said. Seventy-one miners were in the shaft when the blast occurred on Thursday at Nanlou township near the city of Yangquan, the bureau said in a statement.”
Read MoreA disabled man holds a sign which offers his kidney for sale, on a sidewalk in front of Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate Wednesday Dec 8, 2004. Sales of organs are controversial in China with some people offering them for sale as a way out of poverty. China has also been accused of harvesting organs from executed […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: “In a move intended to muffle the voices of some of China’s most prominent and independent scholars and activists, hard-line elements in the new Hu Jintao government are seeking to eradicate the concept of ‘public intellectuals’ in China. A new ‘gray list’ has been created, sources say, of historians, economists, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “A blue paper on social situation by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences tells seven special realities of the country impeding China’s development. A report entitled ‘The Analysis and Forecast on the Social Situation of China” (2004-2005), released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, points out that in 2004 China has […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: “Gently extolling the virtues of ‘learning and laughter,’ an elderly upstate New York man has become a unlikely advice guru in China, a land he’s never even visited.”
Read MoreFrom the ABC News: “China has banned a new computer game for referring to Taiwan and other regions claimed by China as separate countries. The ban underscores China’s extreme sensitivity over any perceived slight to its national prestige amid rising global economic and political clout. Officially ‘Football Manager 2005,’ a British game that hit markets […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: “China has abruptly blocked a meeting of global union and business leaders scheduled for next week that aimed to press Beijing to do more to protect workers’ rights. The meeting, put together by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development after lengthy consultations with Beijing, was effectively canceled Wednesday when […]
Read MoreFrom the China Economic Net: “The People’s Daily reports that the proposed admission charge rises for Beijing’s world heritage sites have been strongly opposed by some netizens in China, although a public hearing has already approved the price adjustment. Many Chinese netizens say protection of these sites should be financed by the government. They also […]
Read MoreThe German magazine Der Spiegel published a long, two section article about human right in China: “Arbitrary arrests, torture and huge numbers of executions are still the order of the day in China. But despite state repression, the country’s citizens are becoming more and more courageous. Civil disobedience is taking root.”
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: “In a moment on Wednesday, the gathering might of the Chinese economy became as imposing and obvious as the Great Wall. This was no economic forecast – no set of percentages and decimal points that hinted obliquely at the power that 1.3 billion shoppers could someday wield. This was news […]
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