Obamania continues in China. There are two versions of Obama Shanghai Speech: the original one in English and its Chinese translation provided by Xinhua News Agency. For some reasons Xinhua omitted some parts of Obama’s speech, it is interesting to compare the differences between the two versions, here is the complete list of those missing [...]
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced on Monday the latest reshuffle of provincial leaders.
Former Party chief of Fujian Province Lu Zhangong was appointed secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee of the CPC, replacing Xu Guangchun.
Sun Chunlan was appointed secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC.
Former Party chief of [...]
Chongqing Municipal Government confirmed that Wu Xiaoqing, former member of Chongqing Municipal Higher People’s Court Judicial Committee (deputy departmental level), dean of Chongqing Judges Education College hanged himself and died in the detention center.
Wu Xiaoqing has obtained 3,575,000 yuan, 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in bribery crime, and further 5.18 million yuan could not explain the [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will pay a visit to China for the first time from December 2nd to 6th. The “Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China” has prepared a list of 11 political prisoners and submitted it to the Prime Minister’s Office. It is still unclear whether Harper will address the human rights [...]
29th, November, more than one million people took the national civil service exam to compete for 15000 jobs, the admission ratio approaches to 69:1. Exam results will be published on the official websites of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the State Administration of Civil Service in mid-January, and those who passed [...]
Chongqing Geleshan martyrs cemetery is the former site of Kuomintang concentration camp named “Institute of Sino-US cooperation”. November 27, 1949, the KMT killed more than 300 detained communists and social activists, only 35 survived from the holocaust.
The poem below was written by a martyr named Zhou Conghua. Zhou was a communist with identity of high-ranking [...]
A violent house demolition case happened earlier this month in Chengdu, the house owner Tang Fuzhen, also a female Entrepreneur, committed self-immolation on the roof of her own house in 13th of November, many of her relatives were seriously injured by police and demolition workers. Her husband Hu Cangming was in Beijing to appeal for [...]
Update: Dr. Gao Yaojie confirmed that she has not applied for political asylum.
Unconfirmed reports said 82-years-old retired Dr. Gao Yaojie is about to seek political asylum in the U.S. She left China in secret with the help of ChinaAid and U.S. Government officials.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Room 628, Dirksen Senate Office Building.
At [...]
The spokesman of Somali pirates said they agreed to accept a ransom of 3.5 million U.S. dollars, the Chinese bulk carrier “De Xin Hai” and 25 crew members are to be released next week. A few days ago in regular press conference the spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry was asked about the ransom and negotiations, [...]
The Google map below shows the major skyscraper projects in Shanghai:
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