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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist was struck by an assailant and left paralyzed after meeting with police to discuss an interview he gave on German television, a human rights group and a German broadcaster said Tuesday.
The attack on Fu Xiancai, a critic of the government's treatment of people displaced by the Three Gorges dam project, highlighted the risks Chinese rights campaigners face.
"It's graduation time, and more than four million college students are about to embark on a new phase of life. Some will find jobs, though there are 22% fewer vacant positions compared to last year. Others will go on to grad-school, postponing the job search a few more years.
Still others have no idea what they'll do. A guest column in last week's Sanlian Life Week captures the conflicted feelings of graduates as they go out into the world. It...
Sarcastic but true story about Beijing's attempt at controlling the manners of its citizens.
A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.
From the LA Times: "A Chinese businessman is executed for a murder plot, but the big story may be shady deals and Beijing's bid to make a grim example of him."
The author tells the story of Yuan Baojing's rise to wealth and the murder that led to his execution by lethal injection.
Yongfeng Feng, a Beijing environmental journalist, writes that renewable energies and trees are critical to reducing greenhouse gases, but manmade, single-species forests fail at carbon capture and adversely affect biodiversity, from http://www.chinadialogue.net
Jiang Zemin, the CCP's 3rd leader after Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao Ping, has come out of retirement and is making the rounds of his old stomping grounds in Beijing to assure that his legacy isn't muddied.
Replaced in 2002 by current leader Hu Jintao, sources say Jiang is worried that he may become a scapegoat for many of China's current ills.
struggling about his future. To stay or not to stay in Beijing, that's the question.
Instead of radiating benefits to surrounding areas, China’s big cities are absorbing their neighbours’ resources, and Beijing is the greediest of all for water. It’s time for a national policy on providing ecological compensation, writes Yongfeng Feng for chinadialogue.
This post from Angry Chinese Blogger details the Chinese response (and a good deal of related history) to the British government's recent report "encouraging" Beijing to step up and make good on its promises to introduce full democracy in the UK's former colony of Hong Kong. A good backgrounder for anyone curious about HK affairs.
This CBC article outlines how pro-Beijing politicians have just given Hong Kong police Big Brother-like powers to monitor people.
"The Interception of Communications and Surveillance Bill will allow authorities to tap phone lines, screen e-mails and monitor private communications in homes and offices. The law requires any surveillance operation to be approved by judges appointed by Hong Kong's leader."
BEIJING (AFP) - A new bar in eastern China is offering customers an unusual outlet for anger -- by allowing them to use the staff as punching bags, state media said Monday.
