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Chinese police are holding 11 people who planned to attend today’s trial of an activist who investigated the death of schoolchildren in last year’s Sichuan earthquake, a high-profile artist and government critic amon...
Deng Yujiao, the waitress who fatally stabbed a government official after he made sexual advances towards her, went on trial and was charged with causing injury with intent. From Reuters, via Washington Post:
A Chinese waitress who killed a governme...
The Telegraph follows up on the Xinhua interview with a local police chief about the use of informants in police work:
Experts said the number of spies in China’s major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, and in more restive regions, such as Tibet...
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal looks at quality control in China and the lessons regulators there could learn from Japan’s experience:
China’s quality challenge has at times been compared to Japan’s efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to...
Popular blogger Han Han comments on the Fifty Cent Party; chinaSMACK translates:
I have a different reading of the Fifty Cent Party. First, I feel we should permit the Fifty Cent Party to exist; everyone has the right to hire someone else to speak...
Reuters reports on the China Investment Corp, the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund:
Lou Jiwei, the chairman of CIC, said the fund would steadily accelerate its overseas investments in 2010, the China Securities Journal reported, citing an article...