Stories about China from January, 2009
China: Netizen Day
Rebecca MacKinnon from RConversation blogs about the Chinese government's announcement of a new celebratory day - the China's Netizen Day in September 14.
Taiwan: Citizens against Gaza Conflict
Two pledge and joint signature movements against Gaza conflict just started at almost the same time today in Taiwan. One is initiated (zh) by Chuiyung Cheung(張翠容), a senior HK journalist and well-known blogger (zh) who has visited Gaza and most middle-east countries for many times, and Qiu Yanliang(丘延亮), a ex-political prisoner,...
China: Due to a fire, 4 officials found living in a luxury hotel every day.
A fire burned down a hotel in a small town in An Hui province, 1 dead, 3 seriously injured when jumping down. It grabs the attention of blogsphere, however, not because it being thought as a tragedy, but that the 4 are all local officials long living there. It’s questioned...
China: Parents chocked their daughter to give room for boys
Chinese blogger Yang-zhizhu (杨支柱） sighed for the tragedy that a pair of parents choked their daughter so that they can have a boy under the cap of birth control in China, railing against the policy as forcing people to abandon “excessive” girls. In Chinese tradition, boys are much weighed over...
China: Job Security Problem
Brain Black from China Challenges blogs about the impact of global economic downturn on job security in China.
China and U.S: A Comparison of Chinese and American Journalism Education
Alice Poon from Asia Sentinel translated Anti's article titled as “What’s Our Problem – A Comparison of Chinese and American Journalism Education”.
China: New Year Confrontation Against Power Station in Guangzhou
On new year eve, residents of Junjing Garden in Guangzhou city organized a gathering against the construction of a Power station on the southern side of the residential area. According to the report from Sound of Hope, 24 of the residents were arrested the next day on 1 of Jan,...
China: “Just the aftershocks from the earthquake would destroy France!”kids yell
It is astonishing to see kids in grade school reciting such a violent poem, which calls for the destroy of all those bear enmity against China. Is this a indoctrination of hatred, or a must education for motherland-love, as insists the teacher who organizes the recitation?
China: Happy 2009
Blog manga posts a picture greeting for 2009, year of bull.
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Oi wan Lam is the North East Asia editor. Email her story ideas or volunteer to write.
