Premier Wen Jiabao has issued an urgent appeal to the public and government to make fighting AIDS a top priority. According to the BBC, Wen acknowledged that, “These last few years, Aids has spread very quickly over a vast area, causing serious epidemics in some parts… The epidemic is currently spreading from high risk groups […]
Read MoreRadio Free Asia has reported that riot police fired shots while quelling a protest in Guangdong Province. The villagers were protesting the transfer of public land to the local government, which then sold it to a public developer for a huge profit. A local official told a RFA reporter: “The police dispersed the protesters with […]
Read MoreThe New York Times has published a piece about the important book published last year, “An Investigation of China’s Peasantry” (Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha), which was banned for revealing too much about the plight of China’s underclass. The authors are now being sued for libel. One of the authors, Chen Guidi, is quoted as saying: “We […]
Read MoreFollowing Philip Pan’s very good report on Jiang Yanyong’s detention, the Washington Post has now run an editorial condemning the arrest. It is available here. The piece links Jiang’s arrest with the apparent political struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin: “Dr. Jiang’s detention clearly demonstrates that China’s leaders are in no mood to progress […]
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution‘s publication, China Leadership Monitor has an article about China’s regional disparities and political tensions on this issue. The author is Professor Li Cheng. He wrote: ……China has witnessed a tidal wave of foreign-educated Chinese returning to their native country since 2000. A quarter-century-long effort to train China’s best and brightest overseas now […]
Read MoreAccording to an AFP report, “Hong Kong hospital chief Leong Che-hung became the second high-profile health official to quit in 24 hours following a scathing report into last year’s SARS outbreak. ” Leong’s resignation comes a day after Hong Kong health minister Yeoh Eng-kiong quit after being criticized for the slow response to last year’s […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the Chinese government is becomingly increasingly uneasy with the flourishing Asian democracies at its borders – especially since the experiences of China’s neighbors belie the government’s standard reasoning of why democracy is not suitable to China: “Indonesia is very instructive,” says a European scholar in Beijing. “We are always […]
Read MoreAccording to news reports, China is planning a military rehearsal of an “invasion” of Taiwan: “The 18,000-man mock landing on the beaches of Dongshan Island is to involve amphibious assault craft, Russian-built fighter jets and submarines operating in the Taiwan Strait to ward off a simulated counter-attack by the US Seventh Fleet,” the Australian reports. […]
Read MoreThis is a recent report on NewScientist.com: “The bird flu that ravaged east Asian birds earlier in 2004, and killed 23 people, is a super-fit mutant that evolved in southern China, reveal scientists. It emerged in ducks and chickens over the past two years, they say. The Chinese scientists who traced the H5N1 flu virus’s […]
Read MoreChina plans to send an unmanned mission to the moon before the 2008 Olympics, according to the new head of the China National Space Administration. The full BBC report is here.
Read MoreZhongnanhai watchers are continuing to analyze the recent movements of President Hu Jintao and his predecessor Jiang Zemin for any signs of a power struggle. According to today’s report in the Asia Times: “It’s not easy to unearth the ‘inside story’, but one thing is for sure: Hu is now busy hedging his bets and […]
Read MoreHong Kong’s Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa told a meeting of pro-democracy legislators that he has no power to ask Beijing to reverse its decision outlawing direct elections by 2007, according to this Channel NewsAsia report.
Read MoreThis provocative article in the New York Times book section is titled “Engineering More Sons Than Daughters.” In an email discussion group, Professor Peter Gries of the University of Colorado asked in response to this article: “do we know about sex ratios and crime in China? Are crime rates among the unmarried higher than in […]
Read More* Via Menafn.com, The revenue of China’s Internet advertising grew to 1.08 billion yuan ($130 million) in 2003, over twice as much as the amount in 2002, according to Xinhuanet News Agency. * China Wireless Communications Inc. signed a distribution agreement with China Satellite Communications Beijing Branch, granting China Wireless the distributorship of Internet phone […]
Read MoreThanks very much to Tim Bishop for contributing the following post to China Digital News: I was delighted to see today that the Washington Post is running on its front page a well-written article by Phillip P. Pan on the detention of Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the hero of the 2003 SARS epidemic in China.
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