| China halts factory expansion after protests Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT | Chinese authorities are halting work on the expansion of a chemical factory after a week of protests that saw thousands of people demonstrating in the eastern port city of Ningbo. They say the plant uses harmful chemicals. The protests come just as the country gets ready for a major transition of power. Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports. | Views: 4208 75 ratings | | Time: 01:43 | More in News & Politics |
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| TED: Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid - Sanjay Pradhan (2012) Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:55 AM PDT How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three guidelines to help relief efforts make the most impact -- while curbing corruption. One key: connecting the players who are working to change broken systems with the data they need.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| euronews le mag - Ai Weiwei furious at parody video disappearance Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT | www.euronews.com Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has criticised the government in Beijing after a parody video he made disappeared from Chinese websites. It is a pastiche of the hugely popular Gangnam Style video by the Korean pop sensation Psy. In it, Ai Weiwei dances with his friends in the courtyard of his studio in Beijing, even waving a pair of handcuffs in reference to his imprisonment last year. They posted it on Tudou, the Chinese equivalent of the banned YouTube, but now it is not there. "We only filmed for a bit over ten minutes, but we used a whole day to edit, and eventually put it online at midnight," Ai said. "After we had uploaded it, just a few hours later, a few hours after we had started work, we found that a lot of people, tens of thousands, had already watched it. Now in China it has already been totally removed, deleted entirely, and you can't see it in China". Ai parodied the name too, changing it to Caonima Style, a phrase of defiance adopted by dissidents against the government. He said the song and dance were a grass-roots expression of individualism that should be allowed in his China. "Overall, we feel that every person has the right to express themselves, and that is fundamentally linked to our happiness and even our existence. When a society constantly demands that everyone should abandon this right, then society loses its creativity and it can never become a happy society". Ai's 81-day detention last year sparked an international outcry <b>...</b> | Views: 175 4 ratings | | Time: 02:01 | More in Shows |
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| Inside Story - China: Green versus growth Posted: 29 Oct 2012 05:30 AM PDT | What will it take for China to find a balance between its economic evolution and environmental concerns? Ghida Fakhry speaks to Joseph Cheng, Roderic Wye and Li Bo | Views: 1226 20 ratings | | Time: 25:09 | More in News & Politics |
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| China: Wen's family denies NYT report on huge wealth - NewsX Posted: 28 Oct 2012 07:42 PM PDT | A report claims the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has accumulated massive wealth during his time in power. It says the Premier's relatives including his wife, have controlled assets worth at least $2.7 billion. And the dragon has decided to strike back at the New York Times. A furious China has blocked the New York Times website after it published the explosive story on the massive wealth accumulated by the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Censors have blocked both the Chinese and the English websites on which the article had been posted. Distribution of all NYT papers has been stopped. All other sites even discussing the issue have been shut down. Local media is banned from covering the subject. Local SMSs and 'Twitter' services are also being monitored. For more log on to www.newsx.com | Views: 35 1 ratings | | Time: 02:50 | More in News & Politics |
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| China Premier Wen Jiabao's "hidden riches" exposed by New York Times Posted: 29 Oct 2012 05:21 AM PDT | SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation: www.youtube.com A recent New York Times article exposed the "hidden riches" of the family of China's Premier Wen Jiabao. In a matter of days Wen and his lawyers were denying the details of the story. Facebook: www.facebook.com Webpage: www.nma.tv Twitter @nmatv: twitter.com Tumblr: nmatv.tumblr.com As it turns out Wen Jiabao, known as the "people's premier", and his family have assets totalling $2.7 billion dollars. According to the New York Times article, his family came into its wealth after Jiabao became a part of China's political elite. Born into a "poor family" Jiabao made it part of his political agenda to be more relatable to the Chinese people. His Mother, a schoolteacher, now holds over $120 million in assets. Other family members have been financially supported by state run businesses such as China Mobile, China's largest mobile phone operator. This news breaks at a bad time for China, as a leadership change is about to take place November 8. Censors did not take long to block the New York Times along with other links to the article and social media sites, a practice they have been doing quite regularly over the past few months. In an unusual move for Chinese Leaders, Wen Jiabao's lawyers have issued a statement against the foreign press. | Views: 1306 34 ratings | | Time: 02:57 | More in News & Politics |
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| Raw: Pakistan Rallies Around Injured Girl Posted: 13 Oct 2012 11:24 AM PDT | Malala Yousufzai was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, an attack that has drawn widespread condemnation. She remains on a ventilator but is in stable condition. (Oct. 13) | Views: 4300 40 ratings | | Time: 00:48 | More in News & Politics |
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| Japan's carmakers hit by China's people power Posted: 29 Oct 2012 09:05 AM PDT | www.euronews.com Honda has issued a profits warning cutting its full-year figures by one-fifth following a popular backlash against Japanese goods in China. It followed territorial disputes between the two countries in the China sea. The news makes it likely Toyota and Nissan will do the same when their quarterly results come out next week. "We changed our estimates mainly due to the impact from the situation in China, the decrease of unit sales following the changes of business environment in European, South American and Indian markets," said Honda's Senior Managing Officer Fumihiko Ike. Sales of Hondas in China, its second-biggest market, fell by more than 40% last month. The company says the disruption of normal trading could last until February. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com | Views: 72 4 ratings | | Time: 00:45 | More in News & Politics |
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| Wild China: Tibet (Excerpt) BBC Natural History Unit Posted: 10 Jun 2012 09:33 PM PDT | This is a sample clip from WILD CHINA. Wild China is a six-part nature documentary series on the natural history of China, co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and China Central Television (CCTV) and filmed entirely in high-definition (HD). Director of Photography - Brian McDairmant (for the BBC NHU) | Views: 352 0 ratings | | Time: 05:36 | More in Education |
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