From The New York Times: The story of Almijan, a gaunt 31-year-old former silk trader with nervous eyes, has all the markings of a public health nightmare. A longtime heroin addiction caused him to burn through $60,000 in life savings. Today, he says, all of his drug friends have AIDS and yet continue to share […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: The flame from a looming oil tower illuminates the endless desert like a beacon of hope. Oil and natural gas — lots of it — have been discovered beneath the sands near this industrial town in the center of China’s isolated western Xinjiang Province. As in Iran and Saudi Arabia at […]
Read MoreMark Magnier reports for the LA Times on government pressures on Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang Province: Powered by a good set of lungs and lots of practice, the cleric belts out the afternoon call to prayer. Despite his best efforts, the chant is all but drowned out by the din of a single-stroke tractor engine […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: Energy-hungry China has discovered its second biggest natural gas field with an estimated reserves of over 150 billion cubic meters in Baichengin northwest Xinjiang. The giant natural gas field was found after 10 years of labour, which is the second biggest of its kind in China, after the No.2 gas field […]
Read MoreEditor and Publisher, and the Wikipedia site itself, report that the English version of Wikipedia is now accessible in China after being blocked for over a year. CDT has also gotten reports from Internet users in Beijing that...
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Herald: Chinese government officials tried to block a reception in the Scottish parliament which drew attention to the plight of one of the communist regime’s oppressed minorities. The diplomats, who were taking their orders from Beijing, asked UK ministers to stop an event attended by Uighur refugees. They feared the showcase would […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Jade prospectors are putting one of China’s rivers in peril and could soon exhaust supplies of the precious stone. About 200,000 people are sifting the Yurungkax river in Xinjiang for Hotan jade – which costs up to $120 (¬£63) a gramme – state media reports have said. In 2004, jade hunters using […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Gulinar Sitkan’s contribution to China’s pollution problem is four tons of coal a year. It forms heaping black piles outside the shepherd’s log cabin in this mountainous village of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Province. Coal is cheap and readily available, and China burns nearly 2 billion tons a year for energy […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: It was a slow day in the railway ticket office in downtown Urumqi, and as I walked up to the counter, where there was no line, I was feeling lucky. Then the ticket clerk pronounced the two syllables that every traveler in China dreads: “Mei you.” The literal translation is […]
Read MoreFrom CCTV.com: One of the best works of 1964 was the paper-cut animation “Hongjun BridgeÔºàÁ∫¢ÂÜõÊ°•Ôºâ”. The story is set during China’s civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China. The film is famous for its vivid characters. To make things easy for everyone, the Kuomintang soldiers are portrayed as ugly, hunch-backed cowards. […]
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