From the Financial Times: The head of the Chinese internet company that recently acquired Yahoo’s China operations has defended the US portal’s decision to help communist authorities track down and prosecute an independent-minded local journalist. Yahoo has been widely criticised for assisting the case against journalist Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years in […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Massage Milk (ÊåâÊ멉π≥) is China’s best blog, in your correspondent’s opinion. The blogger, who goes by the name Dai San Ge Biao, writes caustic commentary on Chinese media, and is a master of...
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: Despite TV censorship, hot news, cool personalities”and a tinge of controversy”are enlivening China’s small screen. In mainland media, coverage of politics is still tightly controlled; contentious topics such as leadership tensions or the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown remain taboo. Despite such restrictions”or perhaps because of them”in China, news is new. “Taiwan had 10 […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China plans to abolish legal distinctions between urban residents and peasants in 11 provinces as the government tries to slow the country’s surging wealth gap and reduce social unrest, state media said Wednesday. Under an experimental program, local governments in those provinces will allow peasants to register as urban residents […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Mainland officials say they learned lesson not to hide information after Sars outbreak. The mainland has learned the lessons of the Sars outbreak and pledged complete openness as it fights bird flu in its multi-billion domestic poultry flock, a top Chinese official said, while Pacific rim experts […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is to blacklist cities that fail to reach national air quality standards and penalise them by warning off investors, state media quoted environment officials as saying on Monday. The State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) will also control construction projects that could worsen air pollution in the worst-offending cities. More on this topic, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: The world’s largest standing army is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring back Chinese art treasures such as those now in the homes of collectors including Ronald Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder International; Tsui Tsin-tong, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong manufacturing and property company CNT […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Foreign investments into Chinese commercial banks, which began just a few years ago, have accelerated to a frantic pace in recent months, with record-shattering deals being announced seemingly almost weekly. Three of the four big state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) that acquired foreign funding – Bank of China (BOC), China Construction Bank (CCB), […]
Read MoreThanks to Professor Rudolph Wagner of the University of Heidelberg for the following information: Yannan.cn, a Beijing-based website that over the last year had emerged as the foremost forum for intellectual discussion and cutting-edge thinking in China, has closed down effective Oct. 1. A note says: “Effective today, Yannan.cn has closed for cleansing up and […]
Read MoreThe Asian Wall Street Journal published my commentary on the recent Internet Regulations: Almost overnight, the Internet has emerged as the single most important forum the Chinese people have to criticize government policies and...
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