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 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 […]
Read More“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 More“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 MoreJonathan 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 […]
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