The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Read MoreBarbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times reports that China’s hukou system has resulted in educational discrimination against students such as Wang Keyu, a 13-year-old who has lived in Beijing her entire life: No matter...
Read MoreThe detention of civil rights activist and lawyer Xu Zhiyong shows that “China’s legal system is as harsh as ever,” according to The Economist, despite heightened rhetoric from the government about legal...
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s media watchdog is making moves to limit the amount of airtime taken up by televised singing competitions: China’s TV regulator on Wednesday announced that it is going to cap the number of...
Read MoreAP reports that Wu Hongfei, singer for the Beijing-based rock outfit Happy Avenue (幸福大街), has been detained for comments that she posted on her Weibo account: Police have detained an activist singer who wrote that she wanted to...
Read MoreA new research report from Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy ranks China’s local governments by their financial transparency, or rather the lack thereof, according to Tea Leaf Nation’s Yueran Zhang:...
Read MoreNow that formal charges have been brought against Bo Xilai, Chinese netizens are speculating on the fate the former Chongqing Party boss. Many think Bo will be given a suspended death sentence, just like former Railway Minister...
Read MoreThe Global Times reports that local authorities in the Hengqin New Area Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Zhuhai, Guangdong province have applied to bypass the Great Firewall. Local authorities are hoping that the State Internet...
Read MoreThe developer of a record-breaking skyscraper in Changsha is denying media reports that it had not received the necessary approvals to proceed with the project, according to the South China Morning Post: Broad Group spokeswoman...
Read MoreOn ChinaFile, Charlie Custer of China Geeks tells the stories of two parents, one of a child abducted in China, the other of a child adopted from China, who may have been trafficked and sold to her orphanage. Through these two...
Read MoreKoh Gui Qing of Reuters writes of the “nightmare scenario” unfolding in provinces such as Jiangsu, home to China’s most indebted local government: Little public information is available on the total debt of...
Read MoreThe scandal surrounding British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China has widened as a previously unnamed American citizen who has been detained has been identified as Yu Yingzheng, the wife and business partner of...
Read MoreFallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai was formally charged on Thursday, Xinhua reports: The indictment paper was delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday. Bo, as a civil servant, took the...
Read MoreAfter two recent stabbings in Beijing—one of which took two lives (including a U.S. citizen) on July 17 at a downtown shopping mall, the other claimed one fatality on July 22 at the same Carrefour outlet that supplied the murder...
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