“How is democracy possible without ending one-party rule, without popular suffrage? Return the people’s rights to the people!” Is this quote from a new dissident writing online? No. It is from the Xinhua Daily, mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China on September 27, 1945. Asia Times had a comment article titled “China ready for […]
Read MoreAccording to Baker and McKenzie’s Global eLaw Highlights newsletter, “A Chinese citizen has appealed a decision of the Beijing Haidian District Court to dismiss her suit against the China Internet Network Information Center for automatically installing monitoring software when she visited its website.” No more details are given, though a contact name is provided for […]
Read MoreThis Financial Times op-ed is now available in PDF format on the Foreign Policy Centre. The former Foreign Editor of Time magazine Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that “there is a new “Beijing Consensus” emerging with distinct attitudes to politics, development and the global balance of power. It is driven by a ruthless willingness to innovate, […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced new “urgent” measures to help stop the spread of AIDS, International > Asia Pacific > China Announces Plan to Curb Rapid Spread of AIDS” href=”http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/09/content_1459260.htm”>reported by Xinhua today, “Those officials breaching duty or hiding epidemic reports will be severely punished.” For more news stories from local Chinese press about HIV/AIDS, […]
Read MoreThere are two articles about China in the British Observer today. One is titled “the great mall of China“, which praises: “China, in short, is a world event – a continent on the move with a distinct approach to capitalism. ” The other article addressed the shadowside of this “distinct approach,” entitled “Mao’s promised land […]
Read MoreYes, bloggers can do this. Lalaoshi wrote “Meet the new protest point man before he disappears” on his blog, and did just that. Here are some paragraphs from his post: “Lao Zhao, 46, of Shanxi province, shown here preparing a petition for the State Council complaints office in March, is yelling into the wind because […]
Read More“China’s first 3G cell phone chip with independent intellectual property rights has been developed in Shanghai and is expected to be commercialised before the end of this year. Industry experts believe that the development marks a breakthrough in China’s research of wireless telecom chips and software technologies and the and of the monopoly of foreign […]
Read Morefrom Asia Times: “In a health campaign harking back to Maoist mass mobilizations and the era of “barefoot doctors”, China is dispatching droves of young medics to work in rural areas in an effort to rectify the shortcomings of economic reforms that have left the vast countryside poor and vulnerable to health crises, like HIV/AIDS. […]
Read MoreChina now ranks fifth in the world for number of golf courses, but the country’s golfing craze is causing a myriad of problems, including destruction of crucial farmland, lost revenue, and encouragement of a corrupt lifestyle. Some even call golf “green opium”. Asia Times writes: Many investors jumped into the market in search of cheap […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post ran a profile of Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong, who just spent his 39th birthday in prison: “In an interview late last year with a men’s magazine, Southern Metropolis Daily editor-in-chief Cheng Yi- zhong said his favourite movies were prison dramas. He cited The Shawshank Redemption – a story […]
Read More“China has shut down more than 8,600 unlicensed Internet cafes across the country since February when it launched a nationwide check on all Internet cafes, according to Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng. These cafes were...
Read More“About 80 gays and lesbians from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan had taken four days off work and spent hundreds of dollars to attend the first Tongzhi Conference held in Hong Kong since 1999. The conference, which concludes tonight at a remote seaside resort cradled by lush tropical hills about an hour northeast of downtown […]
Read MoreThis article is from Epoch Times. It reports that “The Shanghai Cultural Bureau will install 1,325 monitoring devices at local Internet cafés to keep children from opening web pages that contain illegal information....
Read MoreRead this article on China Daily today. It begins: “Sewage allegedly discharged by local plants have killed huge amounts of aquatic life- an estimated 60,000 kilograms of fish – in the Wenjiang section of the Tuojiang River in Zizhong County in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, local environmental officials said. ”
Read MoreIn today’s International Herald Tribune, Bruce Gilley writes in an op-ed: “The Bush administration should be commended for bringing the cause of democracy back into focus in its international relations in general and its China policy in particular. But it cannot lead where others will not follow. And it is the failure of the domestic […]
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