From AFP:Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan said on Friday that she wanted to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband, who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize."I think

Chinese leaders have turned their attention to the social imbalances that face China's 730 million farmers. Land reform measures and rural property rights form the core of the discussion. Andrew Batson of Wall Street Journal reports:Farmland is the core of

The number of those made ill by contaminated water in Guangxi has been raised to 450, up from 126. BBC reports:Ge Xianmin, head of the Guangxi regional occupational disease prevention and control institute, told Xinhua: "The villagers were slightly poisoned.

From Wall Street Journal:China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to invest five billion yuan, or about $725 million, in its Taobao.com online shopping site over the next five years, the latest sign of an intensifying battle with Chinese Internet-search giant

A Reporter's Investigation Exposed a Scandal Originally from Dayang Net. Partially translated by Wu Nan. Last week China's State Council formed a special investigative team to examine a landslide accident in Loufan county of Shanxi Province. It was originally reported

Roland Soong of ESWN translates an article on the Oriental Outlook's Sun Chunlong. Sun is known for reporting that man-made factors were ignored in the original assessment of the Lifan landslide disaster in Shanxi.Q: How was your attention drawn to

Wu Qi of Xinhua reports on the government's latest efforts to introduce micro-insurance to rural China.Dai Yongheng never imagined he would make history. But he did just that on Sept. 3, 2008. The middle-aged farmer from north China's Shanxi Province

caption id="" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Urumqi"][/caption]China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the "2007 Annual Nation-wide Urban Environmental Management and Regulation Report" ( 2007 ), which blacklisted Xinjiang's Urumqi as the most polluted city. While the report cannot be accessible online

Inspired by the public outpouring of support during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, President Hu Jintao held a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People to honor individuals and organizations that were involved in rescue and relief work. President Hu

Milk fears may be assuaged by results that Chinese liquid milk products now meet melamine limit restrictions. Xinhua reports:The latest tests found that Chinese liquid dairy products met the new temporary restrictions on melamine, the country's top quality control agency

Joel Martinsen of Danwei reports on Blog Weekly, a new magazine whose sources are entirely web-based. Blog Weekly is not the first print publication to recognize the value of web content, but it might be the first legitimate effort. Earlier

Kate Zhao is studying business journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She writes in the New America Media:As the financial crisis in the United States spreads around the world, investors are scrambling

Phelim Kine is an Asia-based researcher for Human Rights Watch. He writes in the Wall Street Journal:As the world watched the fireworks of the Beijing Games' opening ceremony, the seeds of China's latest deadly public health disaster were being sown.

Wu Zhong writes in the Asia Times:China's financial system, even after three decades of reforms, remains pretty much closed by standards of a free economy. In consequence, it has been less savaged than many other countries as the financial crisis

From RFA:Chinese civil rights activists organized an online campaign to support the nomination of jailed AIDS activist Hu Jia to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, while others supported the official line warning the Oslo-based committee not to "hurt the

From FT: Beijing has stepped up its monitoring of international financial institutions in the country amid fears that the failure of a large foreign group could see the global credit crisis spill over into a largely insulated China.China's securities regulator

From Reuters:Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas.Rioting broke

From AP:A second lawsuit has been filed against a Chinese dairy company at the heart of the tainted milk crisis, an attorney said Friday, as more than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after drinking milk powder laced with an industrial chemical.Zhang