Alan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard, wrote a commentary in Psychiatric Times about the psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong members in China. Dr. Stone was appointed as a member of a task force organized by the World Psychiatric Association and responsible for investigating political misuse of psychiatry in China, including against […]
Read MoreWhat happened to the persons who spread paint on Mao’s portrait during the student protests in 1989? Read about their plight here.
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese police have cracked down on 1,045 drug gangs, arresting 10,537 suspects and seized 6.27 tons of illegal drugs since Aug. 1, the government said Wednesday. Drug-related funds of 77.85 million yuan (9.38 million US dollars) were also seized in the four-month anti-drug campaign, said Chen Yicun, deputy-director of anti-drug department under theMinistry […]
Read MoreForeign TV companies, including HBO, Nickelodeon and National Geographic, are moving quickly to take advantage of new relaxed rules in China allowing foreign investment in content production: “Most of the partnerships are seizing on new rules that go into effect next week allowing foreign firms to own up to 49 percent of joint ventures engaged […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Since China’s annexation of the Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region in 1950, Beijing has pursued policies that have put considerable pressure on the local environment. This western region, which borders Central Asia, is home to China’s main nuclear testing site. Pollution does not respect political boundaries, which is why the impact of the 42 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “An Aids prevention campaign distributing free condoms on Chinese campuses has been halted by authorities at Beijing’s top two universities. Administrators at Peking University and Tsinghua University said the campaign was unacceptable. It is a sign of how Aids prevention work on the mainland is being hampered by bureaucracy and traditional taboos. ” […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post, via MSNBC: “As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation. The millions of urban youths who were forced to abandon their books and live their teenage years with peasants have grown into […]
Read MoreWal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has conceded to Chinese government demands that it allow branches of the All China Federation of Trade Unions to operate in its China stores. The superstore recently announced plans to open ten new stores in China. The ACFTU, a Communist Party controlled organization, had threatened to sue Wal-Mart if it […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China’s growing economic influence is such that its central bank – an important buyer of US government debt – now feels confident enough to offer blunt advice to Washington and even criticism of American statecraft. Li Ruogu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), said Washington was now blaming […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: “More than a third of Chinese people who fall ill do not go to the doctor because they cannot afford the cost, a government survey has found. The investigation, reported by state media this week, sampled nearly 200,000 rural and urban residents. The problem is the cost of medical care is going […]
Read More“China has more cellular users than any other nation on earth. More than 300 million Chinese — more than the total number of men, women, and children living in the U.S. — have mobile phones, and that population continues to grow by millions a month. Yet China remains a laggard when it comes to the […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: “Anti-Japanese sentiment has grown in China over the past two years, with many citing Japan’s militarist past as reasons for their unfavorable view, a poll by a Chinese research institute showed Tuesday. The opinion poll conducted by the Institute of Japanese Studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences earlier this year […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Hong Kong authorities are investigating after TV programmes beamed into China from the territory by satellite were allegedly hacked into at the weekend. Content promoting the spiritual group Falun Gong, banned on the mainland, appeared on the satellite feed and was broadcast on two Chinese TV stations. ”
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: “The number of mobile phone users, the biggest in the world, long ago outstripped the number of fixed line users, which stood at 310 million by the end of last month, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Information Industry. From January to October, mobile phone short message traffic […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Despite its geographic proximity, China for the past century played only a marginal role in Central Asia. Economically, politically and culturally, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan were firmly in Russia’s orbit. But independence in 1991 brought changes, among them the opening of the “Bamboo Curtain” to the East. Initially, it was […]
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