02/22/2010 16:39 CHINA Laojiao, China’s shame, where 50 million people have been detained (AsiaNews.it)
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:47:08 GMT
» Administrative detention in laojiao centres is often due to petty crimes but also to causing “trouble” or demanding justice. In all cases though, it entails forced labour.
Eastday-Ex-cons get new break in Liaoning (Eastday.com)
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:05:22 GMT
Zhang Lixiang has hired more than 200 ex-convicts to work in his second-hand automobile market since 1993 -- and he has no regrets, even though he knows they might cause trouble.
add. formats (Kavkaz Center)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:14:23 GMT
The author, Alexander Khramchikhin, the Deputy Director of the Moscow-based Institute for Political and Military Analysis, says: if there will ever be committed a large-scale military aggression in the "classical" form against Russia, with 95% probability (if not 99.99%) the aggressor would be China.
World News Quick Take (Taipei Times)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:05:33 GMT
A high-speed railway that will cut the travel time between Beijing and Shanghai to four hours will open a year ahead of schedule next year, state media said yesterday.
11 tigers starved to death at Shenyang zoo (AsiaOne)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:59:36 GMT
At least eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death in the past three months at a northeastern wildlife zoo that was closed for disciplinary reform after a violent tiger assault last year, the China News Agency reported Friday.
World journal (Telegraph-Journal)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:06:24 GMT
A blowout and fire that erupted at a natural gas well in northwestern Alberta Feb. 24 have been capped.
Eleven Siberian tigers starve to death in China zoo; 2 hungry cats shot dead for attacking keeper (New York Daily News)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:53:00 GMT
Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where activists say profiteering off the carcasses of endangered species.
China wages war on pervasive corruption (USA Today)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:45:56 GMT
Public corruption is not exclusive to China, but it is considered a more serious problem here because it could threaten Communist Party rule if left unchecked.
China wages war on pervasive corruption (USA Today)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:37:47 GMT
Corruption is not exclusive to China, but it is considered a more serious problem here because it could threaten Communist Party rule.
