Amid fears that the mainland is increasing their involvement in Hong Kong politics, the San Francisco Chronicle reports parents, students, and teachers took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest China’s planned curriculum...
Read MoreBloomberg reports in detail on a major hacking operation which targeted top officials and corporations in the E.U. and U.S. and may have links to the Chinese military: Observed for years by U.S. intelligence, which dubbed it...
Read MoreRiots broke out in the Jiangsu city of Qidong on Saturday during protests against a pipeline which locals feared would pollute the nearby coastline. From Peter Parks at AFP: Following the clashes, the local police said in their...
Read MoreAs of July 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function): first seven days after a death (头七): It has been one week since the Beijing flood began. Beijing + assign blame...
Read MoreWhile many U.S. colleges see a boom in applications from China, many applicants rely heavily on education agents who are sometimes not above using shady tactics to help their clients through the unfamiliar admission process....
Read MoreWhile the Olympic themed street-art of England’s eminent and anonymous pop-cultural delinquent may soon disappear from the walls of London, Voice of America interviews graffiti artist Wang Mo on the chic and seditious...
Read MoreIn a post for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Asia Unbound blog, CFR’s director of Asian Studies Elizabeth C. Economy describes current trends in China’s civic engagement. By referring to many recent events,...
Read MoreActivist Ni Yulan has been cleared of fraud by a Beijing court, knocking two months off an ongoing 32 month jail sentence imposed in April. Ni’s legal battles against forced demolition led to the destruction of her own...
Read MoreFacing mounting public criticism and a crisis of credibility over the city’s response to the weekend’s flooding, Beijing officials raised the death toll from 37 to 77 on Thursday evening. From The Wall Street...
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Political cartoonists have taken on the Beijing flood, posting images on Weibo and blogs that...
Read MoreXinhua reports that Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai, and Zhang Xiaojun, a family aide, have been charged with the “intentional homicide” of British businessman Neil Heywood. Heywood’s death in November last year...
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Eight pages of reporting on the Beijing flood were pulled from today’s edition of Southern Weekend...
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