The Guardian reports on a recent protest by owners of improvised hostels in air raid shelters in Beijing which provide temporary housing for migrant workers, under-employed college graduates, and others: Thousands of air-raid...
Read MoreAfter a months-long drama after China stopped exporting rare earth elements to Japan as part of a diplomatic dispute, the exports have again resumed, AP reports: Japanese trade and industry minister Akihiro Ohata said Wednesday...
Read MoreFrom The Diplomat: Beijing keeps its film industry on a tight leash. Blockbusters like Aftershock are fine—if they tow the party’s airbrushed line. With a star system in place, multiplexes springing up all over the country and...
Read MoreFollowing a wave of suicides on the Foxconn campus, and a series of strikes by workers demanding higher wages (including a recent one outside Shanghai which turned violent), companies are responding by raising salaries. Foxconn...
Read MoreAfter rescuing 115 miners from the flooded Wangjialing mine, six bodies have been recovered and workers are now searching for the remaining 32 who are still missing. From the Times: The first bodies, of six men, were found this...
Read MoreA report in the Oregonian says that, despite activists’ concerns over labor abuses, migrant workers are funding an economic boom in rural China: Improved living standards don’t negate criticism by activists who...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: They say that China emphasizes sovereignty issues while refusing to give any weight to the Obama administration’s two top priorities: containing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and rebalancing currencies and...
Read MoreAl Jazeera reports on the proposed ban on eating dog meat: The Chinese government is considering taking meat from pet animals off menus across the country, raising concerns among dog farmers who have relied on the industry for...
Read MoreTo follow-up on yesterday’s farewell to the beloved panda Taishan from the National Zoo in Washington, today he landed in China, and landed a corporate sponsorship. From the Washington Post: In a deal negotiated over the...
Read MoreDue to popular demand, Avatar is now back in Chinese cinemas, after plans to pull the film to make way for a state-sanctioned bio-epic on Confucius, the New York Times reports: Confronted with a clamor of ticket-buyers for...
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