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- Taiwan's labor minister resigns over wage policy
- Chinese hacking could be worse than reported: Taiwan official
- Toll fee exemption boosts China's holiday car rentals
- Lenovo sets up 1,000-strong R&D team for mobile division
- 12 Chinese companies blacklisted by World Bank
- China's sovereign wealth fund sees 3.9% annual investment return
- IKEA starts paying Chinese suppliers in renminbi
- Geely to produce cars for Russian market in Belarus
- Ugly no more: Hunan beauty pageant earns rave reviews
- Mercedes-Benz owners in China complain of formaledehyde smell
- Beijing roads thronged with officials coming to pay tribute
- 42 kids hospitalized after kindergarten food, 1 died
- Chinese embassy in Japan received a bullet in envelope
- Obama blocks Chinese firm's purchase of four US wind farms
- Bo Xilai to go on trial over alleged link with Neil Heywood murder
- The scandalous trial of Bo Xilai is not without risks | Isabel Hilton
- Communist Party expels Bo
- Falun Dafa
- Zhuan Falun
- Chinese activist Hu Jia put under house-arrest as CPC congress approach
| Taiwan's labor minister resigns over wage policy Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:22 AM PDT Taiwan's labor minister, Wang Ju-hsuan, expressed her resolve to resign at the Legislative Yuan Wednesday, saying that she plans to return to her area of expertise — social activism — after she step... | ||
| Chinese hacking could be worse than reported: Taiwan official Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:18 AM PDT China's cyber hacking of Taiwanese websites could be more serious than has been officially reported, Taiwan's intelligence chief said Thursday. Tsai De-sheng, director-general of the National Securit... | ||
| Toll fee exemption boosts China's holiday car rentals Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:18 AM PDT Car rental agencies in China have seen a surge in business, with more people planning to hit the road during the upcoming National Day holidays, the first time when the nation's roads become toll-free... | ||
| Lenovo sets up 1,000-strong R&D team for mobile division Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:42 AM PDT In order to realize its goal of becoming the largest mobile phone supplier in China by 2015, PC maker Lenovo has recently established a 1,000-person R&D team in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen. China'... | ||
| 12 Chinese companies blacklisted by World Bank Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:38 AM PDT A total of 12 Chinese companies including state-owned China State Construction International have been included on a World Bank blacklist due to their suspected involvement in fraud and corruption, re... | ||
| China's sovereign wealth fund sees 3.9% annual investment return Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:38 AM PDT China Investment Corporation (CIC), the nation's sovereign wealth fund, announced Thursday that the annualized yield of its overseas investment stood at 3.9% since it was founded five years ago. The... | ||
| IKEA starts paying Chinese suppliers in renminbi Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:34 AM PDT The Swedish furniture chain IKEA has said that has started paying its Chinese suppliers in renminbi to simplify negotiations and lower currency exchange risks. The move comes as several of IKEA's supp... | ||
| Geely to produce cars for Russian market in Belarus Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:34 AM PDT Chinese car manufacturer Geely will produce vehicles for the Russian market through a production line in neighboring Belarus, according to Nezavissimaia Gazeta, a Russian daily newspaper. Dzmitry Ka... | ||
| Ugly no more: Hunan beauty pageant earns rave reviews Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:34 AM PDT A Chinese beauty pageant winner has finally been declared worthy of the title, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times. Beauty pageants all over China have faced controversies this year... | ||
| Mercedes-Benz owners in China complain of formaledehyde smell Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:34 AM PDT More than 300 Mercedes-Benz owners in China have complained that the level of formaldehyde used in their car is abnormally high, reports the Chinese-language China Business Radio, which specialized in... | ||
| Beijing roads thronged with officials coming to pay tribute Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:30 AM PDT Traffic around Beijing came to almost a standstill on Thursday ahead of the start of eight days of national holiday on Saturday. Many vehicles with license plates of other provinces stuck on the road ... | ||
| 42 kids hospitalized after kindergarten food, 1 died Posted: 28 Sep 2012 06:05 PM PDT Guizhou, China – 42 children with suspected food poisoning from their kindergarten food were rushed to local hospital on September 21. The incident happened to kids from a township kindergarten in Zheng'an County, near Zhunyi, Guizhou Province. All victims showed symptoms of vomit and diarrhea, and one little girl died on 26th. There are 23 children remained in the hospital for further treatment. A parent said his son had some porridge of minced pork and soybean for lunch which could be the source of the sickness. Zunyi Health Bureau said food samples from the lunch were sent to inspection. There are more than 60,000 students have lunch at school in Zheng'an County. FMN | ||
| Chinese embassy in Japan received a bullet in envelope Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:43 PM PDT Tokyo, Japan – Kyodo News reported on September 28 that the Chinese embassy in Tokyo received an envelope with a suspected rifle bullet in it on 26th. Phoenix News also confirmed the news, and the envelope was sent under the name of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. The embassy has informed the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the police started an investigation on the gennuiness of the bullet. FMN
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| Obama blocks Chinese firm's purchase of four US wind farms Posted: 28 Sep 2012 02:11 PM PDT President cites national security concerns in rejecting acquisition from Ralls Corporation of site in northern Oregon Barack Obama has revoked a Chinese company's acquisition of four wind farms, citing national security for the first time in two decades against a foreign investor. The executive order from the White House on Friday, against the privately held Ralls Corporation, follows accusations from Mitt Romney that Obama has failed to stand up to Chinese businesses. The president said in the executive order he had "credible evidence" that Ralls "might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States". Ralls had been installing wind turbines made by another privately held Chinese firm, the Sany Group, at a site close to restricted air space used by a Navy weapons systems training facility in northern Oregon. Ralls will now be forced to shelve the project, and divest its interests in the wind farm projects that it acquired earlier in the year. It was the first time a president has invoked national security against a foreign investor since 1990 when the first President George Bush blocked a state-owned Chinese aero-technology company from obtaining a US manufacturer. The treasury department said in a statement that Friday's decision was an exceptional case. "The President's decision is specific to this transaction and is not a precedent with regard to any other foreign direct investment from China or any other country," the statement said. Concerns about the Chinese firms' involvement in the wind farms first surfaced last spring, after the company bought the projects. The US navy objected to the siting of the project, and the treasury department's foreign investment committee ordered Ralls to halt construction on the project pending a government review. Ralls sued to reverse the order earlier this month. Even so, Friday's order from Obama will likely be seen within context of an election race in which Obama and Romney are trying to demonstrate who could best protect US jobs and manufacturing from Chinese competitors. Romney, on the campaign trail, has called China a currency manipulator. The Obama camp meanwhile has been running television ads in battleground states claiming Romney's Bain Capital shut down American firms and shipped overseas. guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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| Bo Xilai to go on trial over alleged link with Neil Heywood murder Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:12 AM PDT Chinese politician ousted from Communist party, accused of involvement in wife's crime, taking bribes and abusing power China's Communist leaders have dealt a hammer blow to the disgraced politician Bo Xilai, expelling him from the party and accusing him of everything from corruption to improper sexual behaviour as they seek to clear the stage for a November leadership handover. The state news agency Xinhua said the flamboyant leader now faced criminal charges. It alleged that he took huge bribes and abused his power, bore "major responsibility" in relation to his wife's murder of a British businessman, maintained sexual relationships with several women and was involved in unspecified other offences. The decision by the 25-member politburo, to which Bo himself once belonged, means he is destined to face the biggest political court case since the show trial of the Gang of Four in 1981, following the Cultural Revolution. While others of his rank have stood trial, none have had such influence. The scandal surrounding his family, which led to his wife Gu Kailai's conviction last month for the murder of Neil Heywood, has overshadowed this year's transition of power to a new generation of leaders, marked by the 18th party congress, which Xinhua announced will start on 8 November. Some think that the party will want to conclude Bo's case before the handover. But Cheng Li, an analyst at the Brookings Institution, suggested that this would be difficult because the politburo's decision to expel him should be ratified at a party gathering set for 1 November, and it was very unlikely authorities would put him on trial until that was done. The 63-year-old former party secretary of Chongqing was once tipped for higher office in this autumn's handover. Many in China – particularly among neo-Maoists and in his former strongholds of Dalian and Chongqing – are privately sceptical about the true causes of his ousting, suggesting corruption and power abuses alone are insufficient to unseat senior leaders. His obvious ambition alienated many in the party. "I have doubts on any criminal wrongdoings of Bo Xilai. I need to see the evidence … I think this is a political battle turned into a criminal one," said Han Deqiang, an economics professor at a Beijing university and a well known figure on China's left. Rana Mitter, an expert on Chinese politics at Oxford University, told Associated Press: "They want to drive a stake through the heart of his political career, and make it absolutely impossible, not only for him to reappear but for anyone else who has that idea of trying to create that sort of personalised, political, charismatic leadership in some part of China which may challenge the leadership." Chongqing's former police chief, Wang Lijun, precipitated his former patron's fall when he fled to an American consulate and announced he believed Gu had killed Heywood. He has been convicted of defection, helping to cover up the murder and other crimes. Xinhua said Bo "bore major responsibility" in Wang's and Gu's cases but did not specify how. It said he sought profits for others and took huge bribes personally and via relatives, and his family accepted a huge amount of money and property because his wife abused his position. It added that he had made wrong choices in promoting people, "leading to serious consequences". His serious violations of party discipline dated back even to his time as mayor of Dalian more than a decade ago, it said. His actions had damaged the cause of the party and the people and undermined the image of the party and China. Bo had not been mentioned by name since the spring, when he was placed under internal party investigation. That, allied with the long wait for the announcement of the congress, prompted speculation about disagreements among senior leaders. Steve Tsang, an expert on Chinese politics at Nottingham University, noted: "The fact they can agree on a solution over Bo Xilai suggests they have come to some sort of general agreement." Many analysts had thought leaders would be reluctant to try Bo because of his connections as the "princeling" son of a revered revolutionary leader, his enduring popularity in some quarters and the questions it would raise about leaders in general. Tsang suggested the authorities might hold the hearings entirely behind closed doors if they feared Bo might use the trial to fight back. Wang and Gu had no reason to use their trials as "political theatre", because it could have brought tougher sentences. "The chances of [Bo] having a comeback are practically zero and he's not going to get a bullet through the head . How much difference can it make whether he gets 15 years or zero? He might well decide he didn't want to play ball," said Tsang. But Li noted Xinhua's claim that the party investigation had found clues to his suspected involvement in other crimes. "This is the most important card in playing against Bo: 'If you do not co-operate – if you do not confess – if you make too much noise – then we have other things we can use'. I'm not saying they will use it; the chances are slim. But they certainly want to use it as a card," he said. guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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| The scandalous trial of Bo Xilai is not without risks | Isabel Hilton Posted: 28 Sep 2012 11:07 AM PDT Few Chinese will believe that similar charges could not be levelled against hundreds of party officials There was no perfect solution to the Bo Xilai problem for the Chinese Communist party leadership. Bo was a charismatic populist and the son of a revolutionary leader who commanded a following among hardliners in the party nostalgic for the certainties of Maoist dogma. Officials who transgress are usually dealt with behind closed doors by internal disciplinary procedures: the party does not relish washing its dirty laundry in public. But disposing of the disgraced former party secretary of Chongqing that way would have allowed his diehard supporters – and Bo still has supporters – to dream of, and perhaps plan for, his political comeback. At the very least, there was the risk that Bo's memoirs could be smuggled out of his long seclusion, exposing who knows what further secrets to the outside world. The second option – the one the ruling 19-man politburo chose on Friday – to expel him from the party and try him in a criminal court, brings his political career to a definitive end. Not even the most fervent follower will imagine that the 63-year-old Bo will have any political options left, even if he escapes execution. But such a scandalous trial of a politburo member – on charges of corruption, abuse of power, womanising, and bearing responsibility for the murder of the British businessman Neil Heywood, as detailed by the official news agency Xinhua on Friday – also has its risks. Few in China will believe that similar charges could not be levelled against hundreds of party officials, from the most senior leaders, whose families have grown immensely rich from their connections with high office, to the most junior local power holder, who mimics his superiors by extorting money from defenceless peasants. Bo Xilai's crime was not that he stole or abused his power: if those were really crimes in China, few would escape censure. His real crime was the manner in which he pursued his political ambition: he tried to be bigger than the party, campaigning publicly for a coveted seat in the standing committee of the politburo, China's tiny supreme body. And the party, like the mafia, does not take kindly to any member, however powerful, who forgets that the party is bigger than any individual. This will be the biggest political show trial since the Gang of Four – Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing, and her three close allies – in 1981 when they lost the power struggle that followed Mao's death in 1976. Jiang Qing received a suspended death sentence and died in prison. The announcement of Bo's expulsion came at the same time as the long-awaited confirmation of the date of the party plenum that will announce China's new leadership. Earlier in the week, there were signs that Bo's supporters had not abandoned the struggle, when Wang Xuemei, one of China's leading forensic experts, publicly expressed her doubts about the official explanation of Heywood's murder by cyanide poisoning in Chongqing last November. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, was given a suspended death sentence in August for that murder, and last week his chief of police, Wang Lijun, faced a 15-year jail term for, among other things, helping to cover it up. But the story, Wang Xuemei insisted, did not fit the facts. The symptoms of cyanide poisoning are unmistakable, she said, in an extraordinary public rebuke to the political leadership. The crimes for which Bo will now be tried also carry a potential death penalty. The exact sentence will be a political decision, one almost certainly already made by the victorious faction in China's dramatic power struggle. The victors now have the daunting task of attempting to restore public confidence and a semblance of dignity to a party that prefers to present its deliberations as sober, wise and reasonable. The glimpses that the Bo affair has afforded of the real character of the internal political struggle will make the job of winning the trust of the people they rule a long and difficult one. guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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| Posted: 28 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT China's Communist Party finally axed disgraced leader Bo Xilai from the organization after months of speculation about his fate. 
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| Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:30 PM PDT Falun Dafa, a.k.a. Falun Gong, is a Chinese spiritual practice introduced to the public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. | ||
| Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:26 PM PDT Zhuan Falun: The main book of teachings of the Falun Dafa (a.k.a. Falun Gong) spiritual practice. It was first published in December 1994 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. | ||
| Chinese activist Hu Jia put under house-arrest as CPC congress approach Posted: 28 Sep 2012 04:56 PM PDT Beijing, China – Chinese dissident Hu Jia has been put under house arrest since September 18. He said his recent experience may be related to the upcoming 18th National Congress of CPC. The government sent security officers to his house and has cut off his internet to prohibit him posting any comment on the internet. Hu originally associated his house arrest with the anniversary of Mukden Incident, where most Chinese were filled with anti-Japanese sentiments. But now, he said he had similar experience during times of the 17th National Congress held in October 2007. He was under house arrest then by some national security officers and cut off all communications from the outside, his family were not allowed to go out and friends could not visit at all. The entire house arrest lasted more than a month, the guards didn't leave until October 25. "It was probably four or five days after the closure of the 17th Congress, my house arrest ended when all officials have left Beijing." He said. Hu went on a hunger strike on September 18, and lasted for more than 30 hours. After repeated discouragement from family and friends, Hu stopped the strike as the Chinese Communist Party is not a regime would fall apart in a day or two, he should be ready for a long-term protest starting from maintaining a healthy body. He mentioned his planned visit to the hospital for a checkup, but it remains unknown how to get there when under arrest. Hu expressed a different opinion on the anti-Japanese sentiment earlier this month and soon blocked and insulted by several plainclothes policemen downstairs from his apartment. He also found flat tires of his car, possibly done by opposers. He started the hunger strike to protest his illegal detention. FMN/ By Jonas Cheng |
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