From Pacific News Service: At a time when Islamic populations around the world are under increased scrutiny, the Chinese Hui are often confused in the Western media with China’s second-largest Muslim minority, the restive Uighurs, an ethnically distinct group concentrated in China’s Central-Asian Xinjiang province. Chafing under Chinese rule, the Uighurs have given the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In the 17th and 18th centuries, China as a state underwent a great transformation, the consequences of which reverberate to the present day. Through extensive and sometimes protracted military conquest, China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), effectively altered the special understanding the empire ruled from Beijing by doubling the territory […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Most days, Leng Feng is a mild-mannered marketing consultant. But by Friday, he’s ready for a change of pace. He checks out his auto club’s website, revs up his trusty Citro√´n, and answers the call of the open road. Leng – as he’s known on the Internet – will tackle […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via NEWS.com.au: CHINA recorded some 2700 mining fatalities in the first half of the year, with major accidents involving up to 29 fatalities more than doubling during the period, state press reported today. Some 2672 miners died in Chinese mines during the first six months of the year, a 3.3 per cent rise […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: A Chinese government official has blamed overproduction of coal for causing the mine explosion that killed 81 in Xinjiang autonomous region. Li Yizhong, director of the State Administration for Work Safety, said overproduction, lack of a work safety license and bad management should be blamed for the accident, the Xinhua news […]
Read MoreFrom LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California: An explosion in a coal mine Monday in China’s far west killed 41 people, with another 42 still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang region, when about 87 miners were working, […]
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times online: China is one of the most prominent authoritarian states to have successfully asserted such opportunistic claims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York City that killed more than 3,000 Americans. The main reason is that prior to September 11, Beijing had failed to silence […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic, killing many millions of people after the mass deaths of wild birds in China. Unconfirmed reports say that more than 100 people have also died, suggesting that the virus may have evolved to pass from […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Few Westerners have heard of the Uygurs, a proud, Turkic-speaking people descended from nomads, who today scratch out a living in the rugged mountains and deserts of landlocked Xinjiang province. But supporters see them as a prime example of a beleaguered population caught in the crunch between the vaunted worldwide drive for […]
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