From the Washington Post: Human rights conditions in China deteriorated significantly in 2006, with about 100 activists, lawyers, writers and academics subjected to police custody, house arrest, incommunicado confinement, pressure in their jobs and surveillance by plainclothes security forces, a new report by Human Rights Watch said. Several widely publicized cases involving journalists and rights […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the western Tibetan county of Dingri have detained a prominent local figure after he saved large numbers of sheep and goats from the slaughterhouse, sources in the region said. The reason for the arrest of Pempa, known by a single name, was not immediately clear, one source said. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Lawyer activist Gao Zhisheng (È´òÊô∫Êôü)’s mother-in-law returned to Urumqi (‰πåÈ≤ÅÊú®ÈΩê) and told the reporter that Gao was taken away by the state authorities 4-5 days before the New Year for “a talk” and his whereabouts is now unknown to the outside world. The Falun Gong-representing lawyer […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: The photos of this man before his death would’ve been censored by major news outlets: his belly grossly ballooned up, blood running out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, hemorrhages in the brain and kidneys. According to a doctor, this man’s internal organs would turn […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: After the peppered beef carpaccio and before the pan-fried sea bass there were raucous toasts and the clinking of wine glasses in the V.I.P. room of New Heights, a jazzy restaurant in this city’s most luxurious location, overlooking the Bund. Wang Guangyi, one of China’s pioneering contemporary artists, was there. […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Sun: The lush, regal colors in “Curse of the Golden Flower,” Zhang Yimou‘s new martial-arts melodrama, run like the kaleidoscopic drizzle off a melting sno-cone. Set in the Later Tang Dynasty of the 10th century, the tale of palace intrigue and incest almost drowns in opulent d√©cor, brocaded robes, and gleaming […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: In a rare display of official tolerance, outspoken Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was sentenced to three years in prison for subversion but execution of his sentence was suspended, meaning he could walk free. Gao, 42, was given a five-year reprieve, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, quoting sources with […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: …At 9:39 am Wednesday, the Beijing Emergency Medical Centre received a call saying that Ma Ji was having a heart attack. When the team arrived at Ma’s home in northern Beijing, the performer was found slumped on the toilet in a critical condition. …He started his career in the 1950s, when xiangsheng […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s economy is unlikely to slow “sharply” in 2007 because rising consumer spending and industrial production will underpin growth, said Yao JingyuanÔºàÂßöÊôØÊ∫êÔºâ, chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics(ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÁªüËư±ÄÔºâ. “The government’s policy to boost consumption will show better results next year,” Yao said in an interview at a business forum in Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: Beijing this week registered pollution one level below hazardous, closing highways. …In fast-moving, sophisticated Shanghai, China’s biggest city and its financial hub, hundreds of thousands of householders are using solar panels to heat water. Meanwhile, in the capital Beijing, plans are well advanced to use renewable energy for a big chunk of […]
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