Just after the last blogpost: Free market generates (some) media freedom, I read Mr. Lu Yuegang’s open letter at Zhang Weiguo’s New Century Net website. Lu Yuegang is the deputy director of the news center in China Youth Daily, and the paper’s principal reporter. Mr. Lu also served as chairman of the China Association for […]
Read MoreAsia times just published an article written by James Borton, on the subject of newly gained press freedoms in China due to the economic reform. “China’s free-market economy is generating unprecedented but not unlimited press freedoms, and there’s momentum. As Beijing embraces a market economy, its proliferating news media too are becoming privatized, more commercial, […]
Read MoreGood news! This is from Reuters today: “Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who exposed China’s SARS cover-up last year, has been released after seven weeks in custody during which he underwent “study sessions”, family members say. Jiang, 72, who had been taken into custody on June 1 months after calling for a political reassessment of […]
Read MoreThanks to Josh Chin for submitting the following post to CDN: Lu Yuegang, a reporter for the China Youth Daily who writes often about the plight of the country’s have-nots, has just fired off an open letter demanding political reform to the secretary of the Communist Youth League, according to a recent post on Radio […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth has translated a chapter of the book An Investigation into China’s Peasantry, in which Premier Wen Jianbao makes an impromptu visit to a poor Chinese village. The translation (as well as commentary from the translator) is available here.
Read MoreA report in Asia Times argues that the power struggle between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao is being played out in cyberspace as well as in the corridors of power. The article cites the existence of two websites, China Petition Network and Media Supervision of China as evidence of Hu’s tolerance for online speech and […]
Read MoreAFP reported today: “China has launched a “people’s war” against pornography on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid themselves of indecent content, state media said. Officials have so far identified 500 websites across China that carry pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported. Zhou Yongkang, the minister of […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post has published an article about the legal troubles plaguing the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查）. Read it on AsiaMedia’s site here.
Read More“The shifting fortunes of China’s Internet portals are likely to take a turn for the worse as short-messaging services (SMS) are gradually becoming less of a goldmine. From stricter government regulation to lower charges for voice calls, the hitherto lucrative SMS business is facing multiple dangers in the months ahead, the China Business Weekly newspaper […]
Read More“China’s Internet users send 46 million emails and receive 67 million each day, according to the latest figures provided by CCID Consulting, a think tank for the Ministry of Information Industry. But nearly half of the emails in circulation are junk mail, according to CCID Consulting, also one of the leading domestic IT market research […]
Read MoreVia New York Times: “China’s economy grew at a 9.6 percent pace in the April through June period, a weaker pace than expected, data showed Friday, suggesting that Beijing may be achieving a soft landing for the economy. The number was a slackening from the 9.8 percent pace in the first quarter of the year. […]
Read MoreThis news is from telegraph.co.uk: “British American Tobacco has won approval to become the first foreign company to manufacture cigarettes in China since the communist revolution. The group, whose brands include Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall, has been given permission to build a factory capable of producing 100 billion cigarettes a year, compared with […]
Read MoreRecent developments in China’s domestic and international policy demonstrate Jiang Zemin’s refusal to cede power to his successors, according to a front page article in the New York Times. The piece offers three notable examples in which Jiang’s will has won out over the possible reformist tendencies of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao: Jiang reportedly […]
Read MoreAsia Times has published an investigation into land misappropriation, which is quickly contributing to the destruction of arable land while robbing farmers of their crops. According to the article: “Over the past seven years, China has lost 66,670 square kilometers in arable land, according to the Ministry of Land Resources, an estimate that many experts […]
Read MoreA Chinese cartoonist, Zhu Zhiqiang, is suing Nike over the use of a figure that he says resembles his Little Match Man, which he drew in several Flash works. The full story is here. To see Zhu’s (aka Xiaoxiao) very entertaining work, see this page. The Nike Stickman ad can be viewed here.
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