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| From Economic Observer Online:
As a propaganda "hitman", Yu Menghong is hired by Xi'an provincial government officials to churn out polished propaganda pieces lauding their achievements.
His stories, crafted with materials provided by his clients, are published in major local newspapers as advertorials.
Rather than target most readers of the papers, officials ... Confessions of a Propaganda Hitman |
| The NBA has launched a plan to help build 12 new arenas throughout China. From AP:
NBA commissioner David Stern did not say when the plan would be starting, or where the buildings would be located.
"We weren't going to start construction in the next couple of weeks," Stern said at a ... NBA in Joint Venture to Build Arenas in China |
| From Caijing Magazine:
Citizen postings on the Internet may have brought down an official once praised as a “national labor model” in the city of Zhuzhou, Hunan Province.
Data from Web postings led diciplinary officials to launch an investigation into the actions of He Zhi, a former chief and Communist Party secretary ... Internet Posts Used in Zhuzhou Graft Trial |
| Michael Sheridan reports from Hong Kong, in the Sunday Times:
From Hong Kong to Shanghai, shuttered factories and laid-off workers tell a tale of how the world credit crisis may end the Chinese export miracle and pose the greatest threat to economic reforms since they began in 1979.
Bankruptcies and unemployment are ... China: All Bets Are Off |
| AFP reports on proposed economic reforms that would allow farmers to trade and mortgage the rights to their land:
The package was approved at an annual meeting here chaired by President Hu Jintao of up to 500 members of the party's central and disciplinary committees and other key officials, according to ... China’s Communists Approve Key Land Reforms |
Photo: Beijing Wedding |
| He Bolin of China Daily reports on the first public apology by Mengniu, Yili, and Bright Dairy for their role in the milk scandal.
During a talk show program, Dialogue, broadcast last night on the economic channel of China Central Television, executives of the three companies admitted to "the problems and ... Dairy Giants Issue First Public Apology for Scandal |
| The four-day meeting of the Party's Central Committee was aimed to thrash out policies in an effort to tackle economic instabilities. Reuters reports:
"The most important thing is to handle our country's own affairs well," according to a communique issued after the meeting by the official Xinhua news agency.
The government would ... China Vows Stable Growth in Face of Global Turmoil |
| From Xinhua:
Authorities in the southwest China May 12 quake zone are seeking ways to improve the mental health of their staff after a 40-year-old senior official of Beichuan County, one of the worst-hit areas, committed suicide.
Dong Yufei, the county agriculture commission head and disaster relief office director, hanged himself in ... Suicide Sparks Concern for Officials’ Mental Health in Quake Zone |
| From Reuters:
Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas.
Rioting broke out in ethnic Tibetan areas of the southwest province earlier ... China Sets Plan To Settle 470,000 Tibetan Herders |
| From RFA:
Chinese civil rights activists organized an online campaign to support the nomination of jailed AIDS activist Hu Jia to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, while others supported the official line warning the Oslo-based committee not to “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.”
While Beijing's leaders will probably heave ... Chinese React to Nobel Award |
| From AP:
A second lawsuit has been filed against a Chinese dairy company at the heart of the tainted milk crisis, an attorney said Friday, as more than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after drinking milk powder laced with an industrial chemical.
Zhang Xiuwen, a migrant worker from southern Guangdong province, sued Sanlu ... Second Lawsuit Filed In Tainted Milk Scandal |
| From FT:
Beijing has stepped up its monitoring of international financial institutions in the country amid fears that the failure of a large foreign group could see the global credit crisis spill over into a largely insulated China.
China’s securities regulator has ordered all joint venture fund management groups to report ... Beijing Monitors Foreign Financial Groups |
| The number of those made ill by contaminated water in Guangxi has been raised to 450, up from 126. BBC reports:
Ge Xianmin, head of the Guangxi regional occupational disease prevention and control institute, told Xinhua: "The villagers were slightly poisoned. They can be cured in nine to 15 days with ... Tainted China Water Sickens 450 |
| Milk fears may be assuaged by results that Chinese liquid milk products now meet melamine limit restrictions. Xinhua reports:
The latest tests found that Chinese liquid dairy products met the new temporary restrictions on melamine, the country's top quality control agency said on Saturday.
It was the ninth investigation on the industrial ... China Says New Liquid Milk in Line With Melamine Limits |
Photo: Going home |
| Wu Qi of Xinhua reports on the government's latest efforts to introduce micro-insurance to rural China.
Dai Yongheng never imagined he would make history. But he did just that on Sept. 3, 2008. The middle-aged farmer from north China's Shanxi Province procured a fixed-term life insurance for all five members of ... China Tests Micro-Insurance For Rural Poor |
| Phelim Kine is an Asia-based researcher for Human Rights Watch. He writes in the Wall Street Journal:
As the world watched the fireworks of the Beijing Games' opening ceremony, the seeds of China's latest deadly public health disaster were being sown. This latest chapter in the toxic product scandals -- following ... Censorship Isn’t Good for China’s Health |
| Wu Zhong writes in the Asia Times:
China's financial system, even after three decades of reforms, remains pretty much closed by standards of a free economy. In consequence, it has been less savaged than many other countries as the financial crisis has rippled out from the United States to Europe and ... China Takes Stock In Crisis |
| A Reporter's Investigation Exposed a Scandal
Originally from Dayang Net. Partially translated by Wu Nan.
Last week China's State Council formed a special investigative team to examine a landslide accident in Loufan county of Shanxi Province. It was originally reported that "eleven people were killed and it was a natural ... A Reporter’s Investigation Exposed a Scandal |