Despite human rights groups urging China to protect them, the New York Times reports that Kachin refugees are forcibly being sent back to Myanmar. Thousands have fled to escape violence between the Myanmar government and the...
Read MoreWeibo user Zuoyeben was banished from the service after posting a picture of the candlelit June 4th vigil in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. Eighty days later, he reappeared, addressing his more than three million followers...
Read MoreAfter a key indicator of manufacturing health fell to a 9-month low yesterday, Keith Bradsher of The New York Times details the mounting inventories of unsold goods weighing on Chinese businesses: The glut of everything from...
Read MoreThree China-based foreign journalists’ groups issued a joint statement this week expressing alarm at recent cases of harassment, in some of which official security forces were involved. At Global Times, Liu Linlin...
Read MoreWhen Canadian MP Bob Dechert was found to have sent flirtatious emails to a Toronto-based Xinhua correspondent last year, it stoked suspicions that China’s official news agency doubles as an arm of its intelligence...
Read MoreThe Three Gorges Dam finally reached full power output in July, but geological risks are forcing some 120,000 people living along its reservoir to relocate, many for the second time. From Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee: Landslides...
Read MoreIn India, online rumours of ethnic violence have driven hundreds of thousands from their homes and, as self-fulfilling prophecies, left dozens dead. From Ishaan Tharoor at TIME: In the world’s largest democracy, recent fears of...
Read MoreParty Discipline chief He Guoqiang has announced a new five-year plan to rein in corruption, to be implemented after the looming 18th CPC National Congress. From Bloomberg: “The work of constructing a system of punishing and...
Read MoreAfter building an empire on cheap imports from China, Walmart is trying to attract the country’s new rich with low prices online, as economic slowdown dampens conspicuous consumption. From Marcus Wohlsen at Wired: Walmart faces...
Read MoreMark Stevens profiles Ai Wei Wei for Smithsonian Magazine’s September issue, and asks whether the dissident artist “is more than just a contemporary phenom”: So what is it about Ai? What makes him, in Western...
Read MoreChildren of migrant laborers who had long been owed wages from a tourism company in Dali, Yunnan province joined their parents in protest this week. The company received a court order to to pay up months ago, but refused to do...
Read MoreIn March, Taiwanese electronics manufacturing contractor Foxconn pledged to make serious improvements to working conditions in their mainland Chinese factories after the Fair Labor Association launched an investigation into the...
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It was a mere 30 minutes into the opening screening of the 9th annual Beijing Film Festival when...
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