Photo: Foxconn 2010 Protest

A 2010 protest against Foxconn labor standards, from Hao-Zhong Wang. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Families say Foxconn not Cooperating

Following the Chengdu Foxconn factory explosion, there are still no details on the victims. From Global Times: The official death toll rose to three Sunday from the Friday explosion at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, Sichuan Province as authorities announced an investigation was still under way and provided no information on the victims. An explosion [...]

China and Taiwan to Publish ‘First Joint Dictionary’

A new project, the Great Chinese Dictionary, is underway to ease cross-Straits linguistic confusion. BBC News reports on this dictionary, and the linguistic drift that has developed between mainland and Taiwanese Chinese: There are also variations in tones. And each side uses different characters to translate new scientific, medical and English terms, as well as [...]

Central Government Departments Publish Budgets

The Ministry of Finance has announced that 88 of 98 central government departments have published their budgets. Though selective with the level of detail published, the Ministry has culled data on money spent on overseas travel, receptions, and official cars, to be published in June. From China Daily: The public can expect to review the [...]

Photo: Subway Travels

Subway travels, via imsuri. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

China Defends Detention of Artist Ai Weiwei

Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying has defended artist Ai Weiwei’s detention. From the Guardian: A senior Chinese diplomat, on a visit to Hungary on Thursday, defended the government’s detention of artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying made the comments after talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, although Fu said [...]

Photo: Great Wall

A section of the Great Wall in Beijing, by inkelv1122. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

China Archaeologists Uncover More Great Wall Ruins

A previously undiscovered portion of the Great Wall was found in Liaoning. From AFP: Chinese archaeologists have uncovered previously unknown Great Wall ruins in a mountainous area in northeast China, state media reported Saturday. The bricks and stones that once formed a section of the wall were found in mountains in Suizhong County in Liaoning [...]

Disclosing Gov’t Expenses Helps Boost Public Supervision in China

Xinhua reports on the State Council’s on-going efforts to implement public fiscal reform: China started asking government departments at the central level to publicize their budgets beginning in 2009. Last year, 75 out of 98 government agencies at the central level released their budgets to the public. The State Council meeting held on Wednesday suggested [...]

Food Safety a Work in Progress

What are ways in which China can improve its capacity to supervise its burgeoning food sector? Zhang Yong, head of the food safety commission; Zheng Fengtian, deputy dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University of China; and Sang Liwei, a food-safety lawyer in Beijing and a representative of the [...]

Photo: Gather Around

Gathering around the artist, by khora. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Hand in Hand

Hand in hand, from Janelle Zhao. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

China Curbs Fancy Tombs That Irk Poor

In China, a movement towards more austere funerals so as to not alienate the poor. From the New York Times: Ever since Deng Xiaoping signaled in 1978 that it was fine to get rich, much of China has seemed hell-bent on that goal. But some local governments would like those who succeed not to lord [...]

Photo: Shantou, Guangdong

Street scene in Shantou, Guangdong. From Garlap. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Voices from China: The ‘Post 1980s Generation’

James Fallows shares some thoughts from the ‘post-80s’ generation in China. The following comes by way of Shi Hongshen: My point is that the current dilemma of the post 1980′s also includes the fact that we not only have to work hard to afford all the mortgage we carry, but also have to build our [...]

Photo: Sanqing Mountain

Sanqing Mountain in Jiangxi Province, by ojh98. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Riding into the Night

Riding into the Nanning night, by Vern Fong. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

China’s 12th Five Year Plan Addresses Social Stability, Official Evaluation

An outline of the 12th Five Year Plan addresses mass incidents and social management, and indicates a harder conservative tone in years to come. See Asia Times’ coverage of the Five Year Plan, or ‘Blueprint’: The Blueprint disclosed for the first time the CCP leadership’s elaborate plans to build a nationwide “yingji xitong [rapid-response system] [...]

Terminal Condition: The State of Doctor’s Pay

Although a new Ministry of Health law will permit doctors to register at multiple hospitals, the policy’s benefit to China’s “overloaded and underpaid” doctors is nevertheless limited: Some specialist physicians have clearly stated that they won’t opt to practice in multiple locations because they are simply overworked. Many doctors are currently working at full capacity. [...]

China’s HIV/AIDS-Plagued region Launches Blanket Surveillance

Efforts are underway to account for all persons with HIV/AIDS in Xinjiang. Xinjiang has one-tenth of the nation’s HIV cases: Health authorities in a remote Chinese region bordering one of Asia’s major poppy fields have launched blanket surveillance tactics in medical institutions to account for every one living with HIV/AIDS in the region, local officials [...]

The Kidney Trade Network

Southern Weekend reports on the widespread organ trade network in China, which connects the black market practices to standard hospitals across regions. An excerpt, translated by CDT: Hunan resident Hu Jie and Dongbei resident Shen Yun both lost a kidney. Their kidneys were removed for speedy transplants at standard hospitals. During their kidney removal processes, [...]

China Bans Some Foods From Japan

In order to take precautions against possible radioactive contamination, China has banned certain foodstuffs from Japan: China on Friday joined several other nations that have sought to limit potential radioactive contamination from Japan, by banning fish, vegetables and other food products from regions closest to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The measures were announced [...]

Photo: Turpan Village

Turpan Village, an oasis site on the erstwhile Silk Road northern route, from Charlie Hall. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Yangshuo Reflection

Yangshuo, Guangxi reflection, by bkmeahan. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Shanghai Slippers

Shanghai slippers, by Michaelknight00. © Paulina Hartono for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

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