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Dec 7, 2009, 10:54 pm
Danwei has produced a video from the 5th annual Chinese blogger conference, held in November in Lianzhou, Guangdong, which includes interviews with bloggers Chang Ping 长平, Bei Feng 北风, Tiger T... Comment - Like
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Dec 7, 2009, 10:24 pm
China is officially the story of the decade, according to research by Global Language Monitor. Reuters reports:
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Dec 7, 2009, 9:54 pm
Nicholas Bequelin, senior Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, writes in the Far Eastern Economic Review:
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Dec 7, 2009, 8:39 pm
Chinese media are reporting that eight students have been killed in a stampede in a school in Hunan. Few details are available. From China Daily:
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Dec 7, 2009, 7:27 pm
The Financial Times reports:
China will take steps next year to boost rural demand while trying to curb overcapacity in numerous industrial sectors, the government said on Monday at the end of its an... Comment - Like
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Dec 7, 2009, 6:08 pm
On the New York Review of Books blog, Perry Link writes about the intersection of global warming, environmental activism and human rights in China:
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Dec 7, 2009, 3:44 pm
With the Copenhagen climate change conference now underway, CNN looks at European calls for China and the U.S. to deliver in terms of carbon emissions reductions:
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Dec 7, 2009, 1:38 pm
Liu Xia, wife of Charter 08 co-author Liu Xiaobo, tells the Guardian that she fears he will be given a long sentence:
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Dec 6, 2009, 9:58 pm
Josh at the Far West China blog gives a rundown on what web users can and cannot access online in Xinjiang:
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Dec 6, 2009, 9:30 pm
With the Copenhagen climate change conference opening Monday, China’s Minister of Science and the Environment told the Guardian that he expects his country’s carbon emissions to peak by 20... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:33 pm
Art Observed reports on Ai Weiwei’s interview with Philip Tinari at Art Basel Miami Beach:
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:20 pm
From the Times of India:
A Beijing reporter has been sent to jail for 13 years while four other journalists in central China’s Shanxi province have been awarded jail sentences for nine to 12 mo... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:11 pm
From the Times of India:
Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan ($1,465) to internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported on Sunday… ... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:03 pm
Government-owned Sinopec has agreed to buy two million tonnes of natural gas annually from Papua New Guinea to feed its growing economy:
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Dec 6, 2009, 6:33 pm
ChinaGeeks translates a post from former journalist Zhang Wen about President Obama’s announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan and Chinese media reports headlined, ““China responds t... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 12:58 am
Leaders of United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), an Indian separatist group, have admitted ties to training camps in China. From the Hindustan Times:
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Dec 5, 2009, 12:01 am
A demolition dispute ended tragically when tenant Tang Fuzhen set herself on fire and died. A translated CCTV report via Roland Soong at EastSouthWestNorth:
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Dec 4, 2009, 11:38 pm
Beijing has shown interest in setting up production factories in Africa, from the Guardian:
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Dec 4, 2009, 10:59 pm
Thirteen officials have been sentenced to between 14 months and four years in jail for an iron mine dam collapse that took place in 2008, prior to the opening of the Beijing Olympics. From Reuters, vi... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2009, 4:03 pm
The AP reports on an underground railway network run by Christian missionaries that helps North Koreans flee their country and which is now transporting Uighurs to Cambodia:
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Dec 4, 2009, 2:40 pm
Yeeyan, the online volunteer English-Chinese translation service, has been shut down. The Guardian, which partnered with Yeeyan last year to publish selected Guardian stories, reports:
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Dec 4, 2009, 12:33 am
Edward Wong of the New York Times reports on the crumbling state of Taishan’s cannon towers, “an architectural amalgamation of Chinese mansion and European medieval castle”:
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Dec 3, 2009, 11:36 pm
In the latest development in the Chongqing corruption crackdown, two mob bosses have been sentenced to death. From the Associated Press, via New York Times:
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Dec 3, 2009, 4:46 pm
From the Wall Street Journal:
When it comes to Chinese data, even the most clear-cut stories aren’t as simple as they seem.
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Dec 3, 2009, 2:58 pm
chinaSMACK translates netizens’ reactions to news that Shanxi plans to reorganize the coal mining industry, potentially eliminating the corrupt and indulgent lifestyles of many coal mine bosses:... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2009, 12:59 pm
The New York Times reports on the sale of GM stakes that will make its Chinese partner the majority owner of the joint venture:
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Dec 3, 2009, 12:54 pm
Five more people, all apparently Uighurs, have been sentenced to death for their role in the violent riots in Xinjiang in July, AP reports:
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Dec 3, 2009, 12:13 pm
From the CBC:
A decision by China to bestow approved destination status on Canada will open the gates for tourists from that country, pumping millions of dollars into Canada’s tourism industry,... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2009, 12:02 pm
The Chinese quarantine bureau has announced that China has lifted the bans on pork imported from North America:
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Dec 2, 2009, 10:41 pm
Following the conclusion of the EU-China summit in Nanjing, Björn Conrad and Stephan Mergenthaler, researchers at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, write an op-ed in the New York Times ar... Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2009, 10:30 pm
The New York Times looks at a program instituted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which pays people to take blood tests for HIV:
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Dec 2, 2009, 8:22 pm
Time Magazine analyzes China’s recent pledge to reduce carbon emissions:
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Dec 2, 2009, 4:31 pm
Xinhua reports:
The Chinese mainland saw a faster increase of deaths from the A/H1N1 influenza in the past weeks, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Dec 2, 2009, 11:51 am
A gay bar in Dali, Yunnan set to open yesterday for World AIDS Day has been delayed due to privacy and safety concerns of volunteers. AFP reports:
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Dec 1, 2009, 11:13 pm
Investigative journalist Wang Keqin, whose life has been threatened numerous times for his reporting, talked to a group of Hong Kong journalism students. China Media Project reports:
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Dec 1, 2009, 10:39 pm
While China’s advances in wind power have received much attention recently, the UN is now concerned over China’s use of a carbon trading policy. The Financial Times (via CNN) explains:
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Dec 1, 2009, 10:18 pm
On the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog, UC Berkeley Law Professor Stanley Lubman writes about opportunities to push legal reform in China in the wake of President Obama’s... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:34 am
Chang’e-2, China’s second lunar probe, will be sent up into space in less than a year. From China Daily:
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:30 am
“More than 2,000 years after it was built to keep out their ancestors, Mongolians have succeeded in punching a hole through a large section of the Great Wall of China.” Malcolm Moore repor... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:25 am
Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent reports on the Guardian:
The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it u... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:18 am
Five underground church leaders in Shanxi have been given jail sentences on charges of “illegal land occupation” and “assembling a crowd to disrupt public order.” From Christopher Bodeen for t... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 11:08 pm
The New York Times follows up on news that Liaowang published a detailed report on black jails in China:
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Nov 26, 2009, 10:53 pm
In Asia Times, Francesco Sisci writes about a renewed faith in Marxism in China, in the wake of the global financial crisis:
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