China : News
CHINA:Censorship and threats after newspapers publish joint editorial about hukou - Mar 10, 2010 - 2:03:05 AM
Reporters Without Borders urges the Propaganda Department to lift the censorship imposed on a joint editorial in 13 Chinese daily newspapers calling for the elimination of the internal passport system known as the "hukou." The press freedom organisation has learned that journalists working for news media that published the editorial have been threatened with punishment.

China : News
Demolition in Wuhan caused fatal incident - Mar 8, 2010 - 11:50:20 AM

A demolition activity carried in Hu Bei Wuhan on March 3 has caused one dead.

Wang Cui Yun, a 70 years old woman fell into a ditch due to assault of a on-site constructor when she intended to stop the demolition. She was then buried alive as the ditch was being filled.

China : Special
Practical Manual for Party Propaganda Work - Mar 6, 2010 - 2:16:55 AM
This 2003 Red Flag Publishing House, I purchased at the Kunming Xinhua Bookstore in November 2007. Hu Jintao in his foreword to the book wrote "If the masses are not guided by a scientific theory as they push forward social change, they cannot succeed ...As times change our thinking and understanding too must move forward...the theoretical basis of the Party, must based on what we have inherited from the past constantly absorb new experiences and new thinking." In the first section of the "Propaganda Manual" Hu Jintao and others expound on the "Three Represents" of former Party Secretary Jiang Zemin. The book, and especially the first section, is very dull reading. The next sections on the theory, purposes and methods of Party propaganda work are more enlightening.

China : Finance
STRATFOR on China and Japan Economy - Mar 5, 2010 - 6:38:46 AM
Peter Zeihan, vice-director of research at STRATFOR: "In the short run China’s economy will grow, but apart from that we disagree with the many who predict that China’s economy will be dominant over the next 100 years--on the contrary, it won’t!"

China : Comment
China's Rule of Law is in Full Retreat - Mar 3, 2010 - 9:27:54 AM
Attending today's lunch and hearing so much praise makes me feel very uneasy.   I don't know how many times I have celebrated my birthday this year, and here comes Sun Guodong, hosting yet another event.

The first celebration was with fellow scholars and the second with my family, but I felt like something was missing.  There was no event with lawyers, or rather we might say some lawyers wanted to have a birthday celebration for me but didn't have a chance.  I think today's event might settle that.  However, in listening to these words of praise my ears have pricked up, as I must say you have expressed aspirations I have definitely never fulfilled.  Perhaps it was just the circumstances around me.  Because today the situation for the rule of law in China is grim.  So in these circumstances perhaps your expectations of me are even higher.  But I think I have not been able to do enough.