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It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China's growth and hunger for English lessons are landing in the schoolhouse version of the sweatshop.
An interesting account of how the People's Liberation Army does business, or more accurately, how most of China does business...
Thousands of university students, furious about fake diplomas, rampaged through an eastern Chinese city for two days this week, unnerving the nation’s leaders who have grown mistrustful of campus unrest since the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989.
Take your eye off the glittering hotels and casinos bringing in all that money and you will see that Macau really isn't benefiting from all that sleaze after all...
A Chinese headmaster, who tried to buy off colleagues by cooking dog meat for them after secretly selling off trees around the school, ended up setting fire to classrooms when the meal burst into flames, a Chinese newspaper said Friday.
The Washington Post reports on Chinese journalists taking bribes in exchange for withholding 'bad news'. Describes a case of bribery that took place at the Southern Metropolitan Daily.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were -- pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, vi
From the article: HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese villagers clashed with riot police after barricading officials and foreign businessmen in a warehouse they said had been built on illegally seized land, a newspaper reported on Friday.
This post outlines the dangers embedded in a government position. Danwei discusses how a cadre worked himself to death, without clothes and with a female associate, in his un-air conditioned car.
Reported cause of death was carbon-monoxide poisoning. Likely from the heavy breathing...
Disgraced Vice-Admiral Wang Shouye, who was sentenced to death on corruption charges last April has had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment for spilling the beans on a number of his co-corrupters - including former Party chief Jiang Zemin.
Zheng Xiaoyu, ex-chief of the State Food and Drug Administration, was just sentenced to death in China's most recent OBVIOUS SCAPEGOAT TRIAL.
Looking to show that they're taking the dangerous products coming out of their country seriously, Zheng has been ordered to be put to death
From Newsweek: Successful Chinese yuppies are bumping up against their country's authoritarian system—and for the first time they're learning to stand up for their rights.
They are fleeing a living hell but often meet an even more nightmarish fate. Michael Sheridan on the Chinese border with North Korea meets the ragged, desperate refugees Christian groups are trying to smuggle to safety.
Dark as soy sauce, perfumed with a chemical stench, the liquid waste from two paper mills overwhelmed the tiny village of Sugai. Villagers tried to construct a makeshift dike, but the toxic water swept it away. Fifty-seven homes sank into a black, polluted lake.
BEIJING - Corruption costs China more every year than it spends on education and is one of the most serious threats to the country's political stability, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The report said graft would continue because the ruling Commun
An expose of how we obtain cheap goods from Asia. A documentary of the exploitation of the workers by factory owners and western buyers. How the factories get around inspections which are supposed to ensure conditions improve for workers. How factory workers live - and some die.
A great post over at The Granite Studio giving some historic perspective on why the CPC may not be too eager to change the status quo of corruption throughout the country. The post raises some good questions about ...
