An Essay by Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo - This is why he deserves
I am posting from Beijing. There is a total blackout of the news that Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Most people in Beijing haven't even heard of his name.Liu was a teacher before 1989...
View ArticleThe adventure of North Korean workers in Shanghai
This is an article being circulated on the Chinese web about 10 North Korean workers' experience in Shanghai. It gives us a glimpse of life in North Korea. I provide an English translation below the...
View ArticleScience, deception, and China: A bizarre case of a job offer that wasn't
Imagine that you are a talented young scientist in a hot emerging field at the frontier of medicine, having completed your Ph.D. study just recently. Every major medical school in the country went...
View ArticleChina: Salute to Peru!
Discussion of the Libya revolution (or Egypt or Tunisia for that matter) on any social forum in China is limited, but not completely banned outright. Most posts are deleted. The ones remain do not...
View ArticleLocal Chinese government kidnapped children, put them up for adoption
Some Chinese newspapers have disclosed a disturbing practice by local governments in China to enforce the one-child policy: They actually kidnapped infants who were born outside of the allowed quota,...
View ArticleChinese woman runs for parliament, "was disappeared" with update
The phrase, "to be disappeared", is used by Chinese to describe someone who is forced to disappear by the authorities, often to a jail. A Jiangxi woman this month declared that she was running for the...
View ArticleFalun Gong: The face of Chinese opposition or a Chinese scientology?
Falun Gong is one of the largest groups of Chinese facing persecution from the Chinese government. Because of the brutalities suffered by its members in China at the hands of the Chinese government,...
View ArticleThousands protest company closing in Nanjing, China, clash with police
The story of thousands of workers going on to street to protest unfair treatment in a company closing for two days on May 12 and 13 in Nanjing, has finally made onto the internet. The government...
View ArticleTraditional Chinese Medicine: Alternative Medicine or Snake Oil?
The European Union ban of hundreds of traditional Chinese herbal medicines went into effect May 1. The debate is raging whether this ban was a decision based on financial and competitive concerns (to...
View ArticleGuangzhou, China: riot and deadly crackdown
The three day riot in Guangzhou, China appears to have ended with a deadly military crackdown. At the end, 5 people were killed, over 100 were injured, and hundreds were arrested. Dozens of police cars...
View ArticleCity wide taxi driver strike in Xiamen, China
Taxi drivers in Xiamen, China have gone on strike to protest high gas price, high rent, and low taxi fares. Some violence has occurred as drivers smashed some taxis on the street that did not...
View ArticleStories of tragedy and courage in face of tyranny in China
Chen Guangcheng is a human rights activist in rural Shandong, China. He is blind since young age. Since he started defending the legal rights of his villagers against corrupt officials and brutal...
View Article"Free him!"
Students at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China started a campaign to free Cheng Guangcheng, a blind human rights activist under "soft detention". Since any form of protest is not allowed in...
View ArticleHaimen, China, protest led by women
Women are leading the protest of the construction of a power plant in Haimen, China.
View ArticleEgg fried rice: the real Korean War legacy
In an alternative history, Mao passed his power to his son, Anying, in 1976. Deng stayed in the countryside to be re-educated, and died there, never coming back to power. There was no reform in China,...
View ArticleUniversity of Florida eliminates computer science research, dismantles...
Due to severe budget cuts imposed by the state legislature, University of Florida has decided to essentially get rid of their computer science program, fire all the teaching assistants, force 50% of...
View ArticleHow Romney's Sankaty Advisors LLC does business
Here is a quick lead to one of the aquisitions Sankaty Advisors LLC did in 2009: Airvana. There appears an ongoing shareholders lawsuit that I am unable to find any info on. I hope someone is able to...
View ArticleMost businesses in northeast China are shut down
It appears that most of the businesses in the cities of Shenyang and Liaoyang, in Liaoning province of China have shut down over the weekend. The reason given by the businesses is that the government...
View ArticleProtests? Massive business shutdown in Northeast China
It was at first a rumor on the internet, but now most of the major Chinese media websites are reporting. Over the weekend, about 90% of businesses in several major cities in Liaoning province,...
View ArticleBusinesses continue general strike in Northeast China, raise political demands
The ongoing general strike by most businesses in all major cities of Liaoning province, Northeast China, continues. The government's assurance that there is no large scale campaign to root out...
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