From Reuters: China is set to spend $200 billion on renewable energy over the next 15 years, and industry players are racing to grab a slice of the action. That kind of money would buy you an oil firm the size of Chevron (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and leave change to fund the current renewables […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Taipei Times: A son of exiled Muslim rights activist Rebiya Kadeer has been tortured and forced to confess to attempts to separate the Muslim Xinjiang region from China, Amnesty International said yesterday. Alim Abdiriyim confessed under torture on July 1, the international rights group said in a statement. Separatism carries a much […]
Read MoreFrom China Knowledge: Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., the largest Chinese manufacturer of wind-power generators, is seeking a listing on the U.S. stock market to fund an expansion plan of increasing its sales by eight times to RMB 4 billion by 2008. According to Hong Kong newspaper The Standard, the company hopes to raise […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A new outbreak of bird flu has been discovered in poultry in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, according to the country’s agriculture ministry. The H5N1 strain was discovered in birds in Hetian county, the state news agency Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying. The report gave no details of how many birds […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Before the highway arrived last year, threading a strip of black pavement across a moonscape of pale sand, this town in central Xinjiang province was among the lonelier places on earth. Yet just off the highway in Mazha village, life is little changed. Most people spend their days under the tyranny […]
Read MoreFrom Radia Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have formally detained two sons of exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer and are keeping one of her daughters under house arrest for alleged tax evasion, after “seriously” beating one son in front of his children, according to the Kadeer family and an official news report. Kadeer’s U.S.-based […]
Read MoreFrom China Watch (link): As of late April, northern China had encountered eight severe sandstorms this year alone, worsening the air quality in half the region’s cities, according to China’s National Environmental Monitoring Center. In one recent storm in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, two people died and widespread damage was reported. New storms have been […]
Read MoreYet another development in China’s “epic films vs. the environment” debate, from Reuters via Independent Online [link]: China’s remote far western region of Xinjiang, where part of Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” was filmed, is to ban movie shoots at scenic spots for fear of damage to the environment, state media said on Thursday. That […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Dozens of Shanghai residents protested on Wednesday over their forced relocation to a remote corner of China in the 1960s, defying the official silence on the 40th anniversary of the chaotic Cultural Revolution. The 150 or so protesters, many carrying signs reading “there’s nothing wrong with petitioning,” gathered outside the Shanghai Civil […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (link): Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have threatened to close a retail building owned by exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer on grounds it poses a fire hazard, in what the Kadeer family describe as retaliation for her criticism of Beijing. An order published in the Xinjiang Economic […]
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