From China Daily:China is set to see its first lawsuit by an environmental interest group against a government department within a month, a local judge said Thursday.On Tuesday, Qingzhen municipal people's court in Guizhou province accepted the suit by the

From AFP:Analysts say recent media attention reflects a struggle between demographers alarmed by a shrinking workforce and ageing population and officials clinging to the mindset that China has too many people.Shanghai nurse Lu Ming wants a second baby but it

From Economic Observer Online:China's central bank has found itself stuck in a dilemma as to what to do in regard to current monetary policy.Last week, Caijing, a well-known financial magazine, reported that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) would soon

From Caijing.com.cn:The beating death of a steel company executive during a riot at state-owned Tonghua Iron Steel Co. Ltd. on July 24 in Jilin Province has been widely blamed on workers protesting a company restructuring.Now, interviews by Caijing have shed

Danwei interviews mainland-born stand-up comic Joe Wong, who recently made his debut on the Late Show with David Letterman:Moser: So what possessed you to try stand-up comedy?Wong: Well, I had always been interested in American pop culture. I guess if

Isabel Hilton writes on The Daily Beast that the recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang marks an empire in crisis:There is a story that the Chinese government likes to tell: that China is the world's oldest continuous, unchanging civilization (the

From AP:A Chinese activist who questioned why so many schoolchildren died in 2008's massive earthquake has been charged with subversion and will stand trial in mid-August, his lawyer said Friday.Tan Zuoren's trial is to begin Aug. 12 in Chengdu, the

France's Le Monde published an editorial about last week's summit between Chinese and U.S. leaders, translated by truthout:First observation: while the People's Republic of China prepares to celebrate its forty years, Beijing is at the center of the world. Once

The New York Times' former Shanghai bureau chief Howard French is visiting Shanghai and writes a commentary on what China could learn from the painful history of race relations in the U.S.:This is the second year in a row of

In recent days, almost a month after violent riots in Xinjiang, journalists and netizens have reported a crackdown on civil society groups and online expression through a combination of tried-and-true methods (detaining activists) and new approaches (using administrative and financial

Qian Gang, a former senior Chinese journalist and co-director of China Media Project of the Hong Kong University writes the following essay, translated by David Bandurski:I accept the argument for gradual political reform. The CCP bears substantial historical burdens, and

The Times Online reports that the Chinese Ministry of National Defence have launched their first website, in both Chinese and English:A military analyst, Song Xiaojun, says the site will offer more detail on that spending and on general defence policy."The

Foreign Policy reposts a map created by China's Economic Observer showing China's big oil companies' (CNOOC, CNPC, and Sinopec) interests across the globe. As Foreign Policy points out, Sudan is notable absent from the map. Click here or on the

From AFP:A group of Chinese primary school students who were tasked with supervising a civil service test proved their worth by catching 25 exam cheats, state media said Thursday.The 18 students in northwest China's Gansu province uncovered the cheats while

From Reuters:China's central and regional propaganda offices have concluded that their strategy of media openness following ethnic riots in the far western city of Urumqi was a success, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.A central and local task force

From Xinhua:The People's Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the Communist Party of China, began publishing a Tibetan-language edition Saturday. The newspaper, run by the People's Daily and Tibet Daily, had four pages and would be circulated in Tibet Autonomous Region

From Toronto Star:GUANGZHOU, China-The scene stunned the local, law-abiding Chinese: They'd never seen anything like it.At a busy intersection in the heart of this southern city recently, angry Africans carried a bleeding black man, held aloft, across eight lanes of

From Bloomberg:Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou says he's only getting started in opening new economic links with China, after doing more than any of his predecessors to improve relations since the two sides split in 1949."We're just at the beginning," Ma

From AP:China's military celebrated its 82nd anniversary Saturday, with an editorial in the official paper calling on the armed forces to maintain social stability in the wake of unrest on the fringes of its territory.The People's Liberation Army, the world's