Family of Miners Arrested in Ghana Rally for Support
The SCMP reports that family and friends of at least 160 workers who were arrested in Ghana on Wednesday are rallying the government to provide assistance in Shanglin county, Guangxi, home to two thirds of more than 50,000...
Read MoreChinese Firm to Build Panama Canal Rival
A Chinese company has been awarded a 100-year, $40 billion contract to build and operate a canal across Nicaragua, competing with the nearly 100-year-old Panama Canal. From Jonathan Watts at The Guardian: The president of the...
Read MoreEating Safely in China, on a Budget
In a country plagued by food safety scandals, mitigating risk while shopping for groceries is no easy task. While it has been noted that those with a cache of power sometimes enjoy greater access to safe food, for everyone else...
Read MoreVOA on Tibet: ‘Fire in the Land of Snow’
The U.S. government’s official external broadcaster Voice of America has been closely following the ongoing wave of protest by self-immolation against Beijing’s policies in Tibetan regions of China. During an...
Read MoreXu Zhiyong: The Last Ten Years
The new website China Change has translated a lengthy essay by rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, in which he reflects on his work – and changes in Chinese society – over the past decade. Xu Zhiyong founded the Open...
Read MoreChinese Journalists Honored with Environmental Awards
The China Environmental Press Awards have been handed out to several Chinese journalists, including a citizen journalist who launched a campaign to challenge local officials to swim in polluted waters. From the Guardian: Against...
Read MoreChinese-American Engineer Released from China
Chinese-American engineer and businessman Hu Zhicheng arrived back in the U.S. on Monday night after being prevented from leaving China for nearly five years. John Rogers at the Associated Press explained Hu and his wife Hong...
Read MoreChinese Supercomputer Poised to Take No. 1 Ranking
A new supercomputer based in Changsha is likely to be ranked the world’s fastest later this month, reclaiming a crown briefly held by China’s Tianhe-1A in 2010. The new system has exceeded 30 petaflops (quadrillion...
Read MoreCorruption on College Campuses
While China’s explosion in college admissions has led to a glut of graduates with gloomy job prospects, the corresponding boom in campus infrastructure offers rich opportunities for corruption. From Shen Nianzu at the...
Read More‘Growth First’ Mentality Undermines War on Pollution
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection a new report on Tuesday, revealing that almost 60% of the groundwater it tested last year rated as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’, and that nearly 60% of the...
Read MoreMichelle Obama to Sit Out California Summit
With President Xi Jinping’s first bilateral U.S.-China summit set for this weekend, opinions are divided over First Lady Michelle Obama’s decision to stay home for her daughters’ final week of school. The...
Read MoreNew Leaders Molded in Part by Tiananmen Era
Ahead of the 24th anniversary of the June 4th crackdown, Andrew Jacobs and Chris Buckley at the New York Times described how China’s new leaders were steeped in “the more freewheeling spirit of the 1980s” that...
Read MoreWord of the Week: Movie Star
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
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