Stories about China from October, 2007
China: The Richest of the Rich
Hurun and Forbes have both published the 2007 wealthy lists of mainland China. A 26-year-old woman as a real-estate developer topped both lists with a rough worth of $16 billion. However, the stories behind the stellar names again arouse public's questions, criticisms and controversies. What is going on beyond the lists?
China: Tudou now bigger than Youtube?
Kenneth Tan reports from Shanghaiist: according to the Shanghai based tudou.com's founders, is already streaming more minutes of video content every month than YouTube (15 billion minutes per month versus 3.5 billion)! So how accurate is this claim? Details here.
China: Olympic Torch
David explains why he wants to carry the Olympic torch in blog of dream.
China: According to the Law Or to the President of the Court?
A local judge, Wang Ya-guang, from Shan'xi province refused to follow the president of the people's court and insisted on making judgment according to the law. He was then revenged by the president of local court and in the past 12 years has been making appeals in different government departments...
China: Sorry To Taiwan Fellow
Yesterday (October 10) is the national day of Republic of China. Bonnae from 1510.com takes the opportunity to say sorry to fellows in Taiwan. In respond to the news that Taiwan winner of the World Cyber Games was verbally assaulted by Mainland Chinese participants as he showed the nation's flag...
China: World Record
Voice in V360 have a list of Chinese records in the world (zh): 1. accounts for 80% death in mine accidents; 2. accounts for 30% suicide rate in the world; 3. has 7 cities in the top pollution list; etc.
China: Mao's Temple
Tiger temple writes about “Chairman Mao Tse Dong's Temple” in my 1510. It is built in 1993 in Wang Shan, Shan'xi.
China: From Mao To Buddha
During the cultural revolution, Dazhai (in Shanxi Province) was a model rural collective to show the superiority of socialist China. Recently a large Buddhist temple has been built in the village. Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated an article from South Wind to explain how the worship of Mao turned into...
China: Chinese Blogger Conference 2007
The Chinese Blogger Conference 2007 is opened for registration now. This year, it will take place in Beijing, Nov 3-4. There are already 163 people registered for the conference (zh).
China: Government Auditing Report
Ni-ming comments that the Audit Department is like Sisyphus in its auditing work as it doesn't have any significant impact on the government officials (zh). According to the report, 49 government departments has RMB16.3 billion (US8.2 billion) unjust and illegal accounting and during the auditing period, a total of RMB17...
China: Library
Ran Yun-fei from Tianya criticizes that the library management in China is designed for thought control (zh). Dissent voices have been censored away.
China: Today's Myanmar, yesterday's China?
In John's round-up of Chinese bloggers’ responses to the Saffron Revolution, he mentioned that some Chinese bloggers used "this incident as an opportunity to reflect on the state of China's own democratic movement." Some of them even link the Saffron Revolution to the political disturbance of Beijing in the 1989's...
Hong Kong: PLA Berth Won't Open To Public
Hoidick from inmediahk.net quoted from the planning department in a public forum that the future People Liberation Army Berth in Central waterfront, wouldn't be opened to public access (zh). Earlier on, top government official openly said that the PLA berth would be opened to public access when it is not...
China: Shenzhen Nailhouse Owners
“According to Guangdong province statistics, 98% of all nail house owners die in car accidents.” A shenzhen city government official told the nail house owners who had just received millions of compensation from the developer. ESWN has translated the story from next weekly.
China: Land Price
Yaoblog calculated the land price differences between the land expropriation price and the government listed price to the developers (zh). It is up to RMB4-500,000,000. Where does the money go then?
China: Is ad-blocking illegal?
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI has provided more background concerning the arrest of the Coral QQ author. He also translated Keso's commentary on the issue.
China: Incitement to subvert the state's power
Angry Chinese Blogger reports the arrest of another journalist. In September 30, Chinese security forces formerly detained Lu Gengsong, a freelance journalist and former teacher at a regional police academy, on charges of “Incitement to subvert the state's power”.
Korea and Japan: Comfort Women
Melissa Wabnitz from Ohmynews wrote an article about Korean comfort women and their history in struggling to get an apology from the Japan government.
China: Daughters At Home
Kanchai comments on a popular T.V drama, Daughters At Home, in his blog (zh). The story is about a happy family with three kids. However, such kind of ordinary happiness is not ordinary at all as family structure has changed radically in the past few decade.
China: Coral Studio QQ Version
Coral Studio is a lab set up in Beijing Technology University. Recently a programmer has developed a QQ beta version that help the QQ user to get rid of the advertisement when they are using QQ. The case ended up in a criminal arrest of the developer. Keso found the...
China: Lunquan Land Expropriation
Memedia has a special issue on Lunquan land expropriation story(zh). Local villagers are fighting against the government's illegal land expropriation. Even though the central government has showed concern over the forced farm land expropriation in the district earlier this year, the local government continued to destroy the farm land. Bloggers...
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