The Chinese government has cancelled 4800 development zones. The China Daily reports that, “According to incomplete statistics from Ministry of Land and Resources, among 6,866 development zones across the country, 70 per cent were found to have illegally acquired land or were left unused. ” The full article is on Asia News Net.
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post has reported that the libel trial against the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry has opened in Anhui Province: “A court in Anhui has begun hearing a libel case against the authors of a best-selling book which exposed the plight of peasants in China. The claim has been brought […]
Read MoreAP reported today that “China’s communist leaders are easing their official prudishness about sexuality, and carrying out the first nationwide survey on women’s sex lives. The 2004 China Female Sex Survey will ask respondents how often they have sex, whether they’ve had extramarital affairs and other questions, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. ” […]
Read MoreOn CNBlog, Andrea, the founder of Living in China, told us the story of how “Free Culture” being translated into Chinese. “It all started with a spontaneous scribble on a personal blog: Isaac Mao saw the steam gained by a few American bloggers who have took a creative spin and turned Lawrence Lessig’s latest book […]
Read More“China’s migrant workers are owed a staggering 360 billion yuan (43 billion dollars) by their employers, with some still waiting to get paid for jobs they did 10 years ago, state media said. A nationwide...
Read MoreA report I recently wrote for the Committee to Protect Journalists, about media reforms and the increase in violence against journalists in China, has just been released. From the press release: “In China’s tightly proscribed media environment, journalists have long faced censorship and imprisonment. But as the media in China become market-oriented-and as journalists report […]
Read MoreA very good article on Economists about “the balance between sustainable development and economic growth” in China. “In a country where the public is not free to speak, too many courts are toothless and environmental groups remain on a tight leash, it will be hard to know if the government’s avowedly green policies are being […]
Read MoreFons 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 MoreReuters: ” 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 MoreAccording 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 MoreAlso 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreWashington 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 MoreA Canadian research group, OpenNet Initiative has conducted some tests about Chinese search engine filtering. Here is their report.
Read MoreVia 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 […]
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