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- A Russian engineer and his Chinese "iron son"
- Filipino air carrier to open Subic Bay-Taipei, Boracay-Taipei routes
- Taiwan cabinet lays out four principles for pension reform
- Taiwan Fisheries agency considering protection for the great white shark
- China's Grand Canal seeks world heritage status
- Over 600 academics petition for demolition of Taitung beach resort
- Lack of strength contributes to Lin's airballs: US report
- J-31 stealth fighter intended for export market, says AVIC
- PAN China International to invest US$1 m in Indonesia
- Nanjing to build museum for wartime sex slaves
- Citic Pacific in legal dispute over Australian mine
- MSN comprehensively overtaken in China's instant messaging market
- Volkswagen to increase dealerships, investment in China
- CNR to sell 23 diesel locomotives to Hong Kong MTR
- China to have 3,000MW solar thermal power capacity by 2015
- YY closes up for good first day on the Nasdaq
- China to review antidumping measures against imported MEK
- After Boys Die in Dumpster, Chinese Censors Descend
- Hollywood effects studio signs cloud deal with Chunghwa Telecom
- Japanese auto sales in China hit new low in October
| A Russian engineer and his Chinese "iron son" Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:51 AM PST In a black-and-white picture, Russian engineer Konstantin Silin smiles along his colleagues with a grand bridge stretching out behind. It is the Wuhan Yangtze Great Bridge in central China, which, pu... |
| Filipino air carrier to open Subic Bay-Taipei, Boracay-Taipei routes Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:51 AM PST A Philippine air carrier is scheduled to launch regular flights between Subic Bay and Boracay in the Philippines and Taipei in January 2013. Rene Ocampo, an executive with Astro Air International, ex... |
| Taiwan cabinet lays out four principles for pension reform Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:51 AM PST Taiwan's cabinet has laid out four principles to guide efforts to reform the country's underfinanced public pension programs, premier Sean Chen said Wednesday, after meeting with president Ma Ying-jeo... |
| Taiwan Fisheries agency considering protection for the great white shark Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST The Fisheries Agency will study the idea of adding the great white shark and basking shark to the list of fish that local fishermen are prohibited from catching, said James Sha, the director-general o... |
| China's Grand Canal seeks world heritage status Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST The Grand Canal, the longest artificial waterway in the world, will bid for UNESCO World Heritage status, according to the cultural heritage bureau of east China's Jiangsu Province. The bureau will a... |
| Over 600 academics petition for demolition of Taitung beach resort Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST About 600 academics have signed a petition calling for the government to order the demolition of a controversial beach resort in Taitung County, eastern Taiwan, environmentalists said Wednesday. A to... |
| Lack of strength contributes to Lin's airballs: US report Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST Lack of strength and taking more outside shots than working in the paint were factors to Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin's recent airballs, according to a report in the Huffington Post. "Airba... |
| J-31 stealth fighter intended for export market, says AVIC Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has unofficially claimed that the J-31, the country's second fifth-generation stealth fighter, is designed for the international market instead of its own... |
| PAN China International to invest US$1 m in Indonesia Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST The regent of West Seram of Maluku province in Indonesia — Jakobus Puttileihalat — said a mining company from China, PAN China International, plans to invest 10 trillion rupiah (US$1.04 million) to ... |
| Nanjing to build museum for wartime sex slaves Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST Plans to build a museum highlighting the plight of sex slaves during World War II are being considered by authorities in east China's Nanjing city. The museum site is where Chinese sex slaves were fo... |
| Citic Pacific in legal dispute over Australian mine Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST Citic Pacific, whose businesses include iron-ore mining, is locked in a new legal dispute with Australian mining company Mineralogy over the timing of royalty payments at its rented mine in Australia.... |
| MSN comprehensively overtaken in China's instant messaging market Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:47 AM PST Microsoft's instant messaging chat service Windows Live Messenger, or MSN, will discontinue its service worldwide by March 2013, with the exception of China, as the software giant plans to consolidate... |
| Volkswagen to increase dealerships, investment in China Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:07 AM PST German automobile giant Volkswagen plans to double the number of its dealerships in China by 2015 and increase its investment in the country over the next four years. Volkswagen surpassed Toyota las... |
| CNR to sell 23 diesel locomotives to Hong Kong MTR Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:19 AM PST China North Locomotive and Rolling Corp (CNR), the country's second-largest train maker, announced on Thursday that its subsidiary has signed a contract with Hong Kong's MTR Corporation to sell its se... |
| China to have 3,000MW solar thermal power capacity by 2015 Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:19 AM PST China will have 3,000 megawatts of solar thermal power installed capacity by 2015, with the total market value reaching 45 billion yuan (US$7.22 billion), according to a report released on Wednesday. ... |
| YY closes up for good first day on the Nasdaq Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:19 AM PST Chinese social platform company YY Inc launched its IPO on Wednesday, rising 7.71% to close at US$11.31 per share. YY, a revolutionary rich communication social platform that engages users in real-t... |
| China to review antidumping measures against imported MEK Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:15 AM PST China will launch a review of antidumping measures against methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) imported from Japan and Taiwan starting on Wednesday, the Ministry of Commerce announced in an online statement. T... |
| After Boys Die in Dumpster, Chinese Censors Descend Posted: 22 Nov 2012 07:01 PM PST  Li Yuanlong, a journalist, first reported about the deaths of the boys Friday, Nov. 16, the day after the new leaders of the Chinese Communist Party were sworn into office in Beijing. (Weibo.com) The Chinese regime veered into high damage control this week, trying to kill the news about five runaway boys who died in a dumpster in southwestern China while the 18th Party Congress was in session in Beijing. The boys, cousins and brothers between the age of 9 and 13 surnamed Tao, had been trying to take shelter from the cold and lit a fire inside a large garbage bin to keep warm. Their bodies were found by a rubbish collector in Bijie city in Guizhou Province, one of China's poorest, last Friday. They are thought to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Li Yuanlong, the journalist who first reported the story, was "taken for a ride" by police on Nov. 21, part of the authorities' attempt intimidate him and snuff out the news. The Central Propaganda Department considered the story so sensitive that they issued a media directive on Nov. 20 to squelch the story. A netizen reported increased security and police presence in the Bijei City, blocking inquiries about the deaths. The Internet post by journalist and dissident Li went viral online, prompting nationwide sorrow for the deaths. Netizens were outraged at the squalor the children were living in, and with the official handling of the issue.
The human rights organization China Rights Observer was able to contact Li, who told them by cellphone that he was riding in police car, and had been "vacationed," reported Radio Free Asia, after a netizen issued an alert that Li was missing. In an effort to limit further publicity, propaganda authorities issued a media directive on Nov. 20 instructing papers to report only moderately on the story. "Do not put this news on the front page, do not lure readers to the story, do not link to the story, do not comment on it, and do not dispatch journalists to the scene," according to China Digital Times, a website which keeps a catalogue of such notices. A netizen who traveled to Bijie to investigate reported in a Weibo post that security there had been stepped up. "There are uniforms and secret police everywhere around the spot of the deaths, the village, and the funeral parlor. I was questioned by police in the funeral parlor and a policeman is trying to take me to police station."  Photos of the squalid dwelling of some of the boys surfaced on the Chinese Internet after their deaths. The five young runaway boys were found dead in a dumpster after lighting a fire to stay warm. (Weibo.com) The anger of netizens reflects the sore points of the Chinese citizenry at large, issues that promise to go unresolved by the new regime: a lack of social services for the families of migrant workers, pervasive censorship, a political and economic structure which delivers to the officials but not to the citizenry, and unresponsive bureaucrats like the police who neglected to search for the runaways. After the news was publicized a number of officials resigned or were fired. Yet comments on the Internet reveal the depth of persistent anger at the regime, whose social policies are blamed for this and similar tragedies. "The Chinese Communist Party is planning another assassination!" said one user. "We will all die an unnatural death if we don't revolt!" shouted another. Yet another wrote: "Common people are boiling with resentment. Chinese communist officials, prepare coffins for yourselves!" Related ArticlesThe Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 19 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. |
| Hollywood effects studio signs cloud deal with Chunghwa Telecom Posted: 23 Nov 2012 02:15 AM PST Visual effects company Rhythm & Hues Studios, which has worked on 150 Hollywood films such as The Incredible Hulk, has signed an agreement with Taiwan's top telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom to set u... |
| Japanese auto sales in China hit new low in October Posted: 23 Nov 2012 02:15 AM PST Sales of Japanese automobiles in China reached a record low in October, dropping below the 100,000 mark for the first time since 2009. The drop represented at least a 1.5 billion yuan (US$240.6 millio... |
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