Thanks to Fons Tuinstra and Stephen Frost
Fons and Stephen pointed out to me that yesterday’s post “30,000 flee China gas disaster, 191+ killed” was old news. I just took it down from CDN.
Read MoreChina’s GDP revised up to 9.69%
Reuters: ” China’s economy grew 9.69 percent in the first half of this year from the year-earlier period, slightly faster than previously announced, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.” This report is on CNN News.
Read MorePigs and Bird Flu
According to AP report: China said Monday that a deadly strain of bird flu that killed 27 people in Asia was found in Chinese pigs last year but denied that the animals had the disease this year. （Via: Kansas.com, using a title: “China Denies Pigs Have Bird Flu Strain”) ABC News also reported on this […]
Read MoreLethal Strain of Avian Flu Is Reported Found in Pigs in China
Also from today’s New York Times: “A senior Chinese health official disclosed on Friday that her country had found a lethal strain of avian influenza among pigs at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a potentially deadly problem for people. The discovery of the bird flu strain […]
Read MoreChinese Advocates of Reform Seek Help From Deng’s Spirit
From today’s New York Times: “In keeping with the gold- and diamond-encrusted watches the Communist Party made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, Deng Xiaoping is being widely hailed as a visionary who freed China from its socialist straitjacket and created new wealth. Yet influential party elders have used the anniversary, which falls […]
Read MoreChina cracking down on porn via Net, phone
Washington Post had an article today about the current crack down on porn in Chinese Internet. “The party and government have launched what they call a people’s war against electronic pornography. They have decreed that, after a summerlong campaign, plugged-in Chinese must be back on the sexual straight and narrow by the time the country […]
Read MoreProbing Chinese search engin filtering
A Canadian research group, OpenNet Initiative has conducted some tests about Chinese search engine filtering. Here is their report.
Read MoreConnecting China project: introduce Chinese bloggers
Via The World Economic Forum Weblog: blogger Fons Tuinstra is starting an interesting project called “Connecting China” “China will have at the beginning of 2005 100 million internet users, almost half of them connected to broadband. But outside China very few people know who is behind those astonishing figures, what are the Chinese doing with the internet […]
Read MoreAmazon to Buy China Internet Retailer Joyo.com
“Internet giant Amazon.com Inc. will purchase China’s biggest Web retailer, Joyo.com, sources familiar with the deal said on Thursday. No details were available on the value of the deal, which analysts had expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars.” Read this Reuters’ news here.
Read MoreChina slams phone-sex operators
“China’s communist leaders, in a fresh move to eradicate pornography, have targeted the telephone-sex industry, ordering severe punishment for anyone offering the service, the official People’s Daily said Wednesday. ” More on this news, read CNN site here, or People’s Daily site here.
Read MorePropaganda vs. profit
Jonathan Watts wrote about the latest media reform move: ” China opens up one of its last closed markets as newspapers multiply — piquing the interest of media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch. ” “The founders of the Beijing Youth Daily would not have believed it, but their paper — the mouthpiece of the Communist youth […]
Read MoreHuang Jingao’s open letter and more
Thanks to Eswn for also translating Huang Jingao’s open letter here. (It even has Huang’s photo.) It seems to me that the latest wave of “open letters” has some significant new characters from the past. Many of these voices are from people within the system. Huang Jingao, an official; Lu Yuegang, an elite journalist; Jiao […]
Read MoreLiu Binyan comments on the Lu Yuegang Letter
From Eswn’s excellent EastSouthWestNorth blog: “In the August 2004 issue of Hong Kong-based Cheng Ming magazine, the letter of Lu Yuegang was published in full (all 13,000 plus Chinese words). In addition, the...
Read MoreHow to optimize social structure in China?
People’s Daily Online had an interesting OP-ED piece: “Developed countries feature a social structure of an “Olive shape”, which is smaller on both ends yet swelled up in the middle due to the existence of a large number of a middle class. What is the specific feature of the social structure in China? As there […]
Read MoreOfficial Denounced for Posting Letter Alleging Corruption in Communist Party
Also from today’s Washington Post: “……The party functionary, a 52-year-old former farmer with a middle-school education, captured the national imagination with his complaints because most Chinese are all too aware of the official corruption that has accompanied the last 25 years of economic liberalization. The tale of a county-level party secretary recounting his struggles against […]
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