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 MoreThanks 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 MoreFrom 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 MorePeople’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 MoreAlso 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 […]
Read MoreInteresting question, isn’t it? Washington Post had an OP-ED article: Dismantling the Wall, written by a former Fulbright scholar in China, raising some important points on this issue. The author, Tim Dorsett, started his article with the case of Zhao Yan: “Last month Zhao Yan, a 37-year-old Chinese businesswoman, was beaten and doused with pepper […]
Read MoreBBC reported that “a pilot programme in rural China is offering cash and other incentives to families who have daughters. ” Also from People’s Daily: “Zhang Weiqing, minister of the State Family Planning Commission, indicated on August 12: China will create a strong atmosphere of showing love for baby girls nationwide through three-five years of efforts and curb […]
Read MoreAccording to Associated Press: “though China is now the world’s No. 3 oil importer, depending on foreign fuel to run its booming factories, the country’s consumption remains strong even with crude surpassing $45 a barrel. Neighboring South Korea is struggling to cope with oil’s rising price, but in China, labor is so cheap that businesses […]
Read MoreThis report is from VOA: “Despite China’s staggering economic growth, the number of Chinese poor is on the rise. Beijing is promising relief as frustrated peasants demand a share of the country’s newfound prosperity. The number of Chinese living in abject poverty surged by roughly 800,000 last year. The government’s poverty task force disclosed last […]
Read MoreI just read from the Editorsweblog about independent news website launched in Zimbabwe. Now this disturbing news came in to my email box: “The Zimbabwe government is planning to acquire high-tech equipment from China for the purpose of bugging the internet. This is to enable it to interfere with the flow of information it considers […]
Read MoreThis is a very important news lead. I believe this story is worth further investigation by both domestic Chinese and international media. Epoch Times has published an expose of one of China’s uranium plants, which has been dumping large quantity of radioactive nuclear wastewater into China’s main rivers, illegally selling radioactive equipment on the open […]
Read MoreAFP used China Daily’s report in this news: “Lung cancer and traffic accidents have become the top causes of death in China, according to official research, reflecting the huge number of smokers and increasingly hazardous roads. The study by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was based on data gathered between 1991 and 2000 and […]
Read MoreAccording to AFP: “China is gearing up for a nationwide crackdown on online computer games, including those with sensitive political content, officials said. The operation is the latest attempt by China to rein in what it perceives as the harmful influences of the Internet in a country where usage has exploded in recent years, with […]
Read MoreThis news is on today’s Straits Times. “The military doctor who blew the whistle on the Chinese government’s cover-up of Sars last year is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Dr Jiang Yanyong, who had called for a political reassessment of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, […]
Read MoreVia the International Herald Tribune: Reuters reported that “a recent buying binge by some of the world’s leading Internet companies is rapidly changing China’s online landscape, driving local dot-coms to seek partners or risk being left behind. Foreign companies including Yahoo, eBay, Google and InterActiveCorp, along with some of China’s major players, have spent nearly […]
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