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- State liquor firm suspected of sharing benefits with banks
- Gu Kailai verdict debated by Chinese netizens
- Taiwan's jailed ex-president may have medal of honor revoked
- Taiwan's electronic component sector forecast to improve in Q3
- Citigroup says Taiwan market remains cold for earnings growth
- Daiwa cuts Acer earnings projections amid margin concerns
- Five Taiwanese arrested for drug manufacturing in Philippines
- China's winemakers call for probes into EU imports
- Beijing to forbid addresses skipping 'unlucky' numbers
- San Guo Sha: Card game takes China's Three Kigdoms abroad
- Sinkholes accidents killed 2 in Harbin
- Top China Stories from WSJ: Gu Sentence, GM Partnership, Li & Fung Headwinds
- Why China Is Willing to Lose Islands Dispute with Japan
- China-backed Yancoal Australia reviews expansion plans
- Henan's Butterfly Lovers site remains in pupal stage
- NTD's Dance Competition Lands in Hong Kong for First Time
- New Rules for Travel to China
- Dissident Lawyer Attacked
- Envoy Visits Monk, Activist
- Family of 12 killed in truck accident in southwest China
| State liquor firm suspected of sharing benefits with banks Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:14 AM PDT China's state-owned Kweichow Moutai, which specializes in producing Moutai liquor, has been storing money in banks despite low interest returns, triggering suspicion that it is sharing benefits with t... |
| Gu Kailai verdict debated by Chinese netizens Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT The suspended death sentence given to Gu Kailai on Monday morning and the Communist Party's curiously muted reaction to it has triggered frenzied response in the Chinese blogosphere. The 53-year-old ... |
| Taiwan's jailed ex-president may have medal of honor revoked Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:50 AM PDT Taiwan's presidential office has been discussing a medal of honor that former president Chen Shui-bian bestowed upon himself while in office and will act according to the law when deciding whether to ... |
| Taiwan's electronic component sector forecast to improve in Q3 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:42 AM PDT Taiwan's electronic component sector is expected to improve in the third quarter, driven by the launch of new consumer electronics later in this year, according to a recent government report. The s... |
| Citigroup says Taiwan market remains cold for earnings growth Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:42 AM PDT The Taiwan market is unlikely to post earnings growth in 2012 since the communications and chemical sectors are dragging down overall performance, US bank Citigroup said recently in a note to clients.... |
| Daiwa cuts Acer earnings projections amid margin concerns Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:34 AM PDT Taiwan-based PC maker Acer may post lower earnings in 2012 and 2013 due to a slower-than-expected recovery in the brand's operating profit margin, Daiwa Securities Capital Markets said in a note recen... |
| Five Taiwanese arrested for drug manufacturing in Philippines Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:26 AM PDT Following tipoffs from Taiwan, police in the Philippines busted an illegal drug factory in Manila on Sunday, arresting five Taiwanese nationals. Over 500 grams of finished amphetamine and 20 kg of ... |
| China's winemakers call for probes into EU imports Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:26 AM PDT Wine producers have filed a complaint to the Ministry of Commerce demanding investigations into whether European imports are damaging China's domestic market. Wang Zuming, head of the wine division... |
| Beijing to forbid addresses skipping 'unlucky' numbers Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:26 AM PDT Beijing has vowed to prohibit the selective avoidance of "unlucky" numbers, normally deemed to include four, 13 and 14, in the registration of addresses, an official with the city's quality watchdog s... |
| San Guo Sha: Card game takes China's Three Kigdoms abroad Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:10 AM PDT When three ancient Chinese kingdoms fought each other nearly 1,800 years ago, they never imagined that their history would one day be a popular card game both home and abroad. The developers of San... |
| Sinkholes accidents killed 2 in Harbin Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:59 PM PDT  A sinkhole on Youzheng Street in Harbin. /Picture by CNS Heilongjiang, China – According to local media in Heilongjiang Province, there were 7 cases of road collapsing occurred in 8 days in the city of Harbin, which located in northeast China. 2 people were killed, 2 injured and 2 vehicles fell into the pit. The incidents triggered a public outrage and criticism towards municipal government. Heilongjiang Broadcast network reported 7 incidents from August 9 to August 17: On the morning of August 9, a 3 meters deep, 2 meters wide sinkhole appeared on the sidewalk near the intersection of Tielu Street and Shangfang Street in Nangang District. Around 11pm on August 12, the pavement on the sidewalk suddenly collapsed on Gongchengshi Street in Nangang District, a car almost fell into the pit with two front wheels stuck on the edge. No casualties reported. At 2:45pm on August 14, a joint between bike lane and the sidewalk collapsed on Youzheng Street in Nangang District. The sinkhole was 2 meters long, 1 meter wide but seemed hollow underground. Another incident occurred on the 14th at Liaoyang Street in Nangang District, 4 people fell into the sinkhole and 2 were killed. On the afternoon of August 16, a road collapse occurred on the intersection of Liaoyuan Street and Dazhi Street in Nangang District. The sinkhole was 3.3 meters deep. On August 17, a section of road near the intersection of Dongzhi Road and Hongqi Street appeared to crack and collapse. On the same morning around 5am, a pavement collapse occurred in a section of Airport Road in Diaoli District causing a tanker rollover. Although the department of drainage in Harbin claimed three of the incidents were caused by the leaked drain lines, the public doubted its statement. "Harbin government should be ashamed of themselves." A Harbin resident posted online. "It was an obvious engineering problem and has little to do with natural disasters." Dozes of Harbin citizens went online and complained about the infrastructure of the city. The municipal government was with hindsight, many criticized online. FMN
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| Top China Stories from WSJ: Gu Sentence, GM Partnership, Li & Fung Headwinds Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:44 PM PDT Gu Kailai, the wife of deposed Communist Party official Bo Xilai, could be released from prison on medical parole in several years; GM is tweaking the iconic American brand to make it more palatable to Chinese buyers; for the past century, Li & Fung Ltd. has been supplying everything from shoes to baby clothes for global retailers, but now has shrinking margins. |
| Why China Is Willing to Lose Islands Dispute with Japan Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:34 PM PDT Known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China, five tiny uninhabited islands and three rocks in the middle of the East China Sea |
| China-backed Yancoal Australia reviews expansion plans Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:54 AM PDT China-backed Yancoal Australia said on Monday that the company was considering all options to reduce costs. In its 2012 first half year results presentation released on Monday, Yancoal said that it... |
| Henan's Butterfly Lovers site remains in pupal stage Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:54 AM PDT Runan county in central China's Henan province has designed a controversial cultural park to commemorate Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, China's equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. The project has been crit... |
| NTD's Dance Competition Lands in Hong Kong for First Time Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:44 AM PDT The Asia Pacific preliminary rounds of NTD Television's fifth International Classical Chinese Dance competition in Hong Kong ended on Saturday. Despite intimidation from Mainland Chinese authorities, 14 contestants took to the stage. |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT Since December of last year the requirements for getting a visa from almost all countries have increased. The Chinese embassy in the US recommends applying a month before departure. |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:56 PM PDT An outspoken and formerly imprisoned Vietnamese rights lawyer said Monday that he has been beaten by men he believes were plainclothes police. Le Quoc Quan told RFA's Vietnamese service that he was attacked by a group of men around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday in Hanoi while he was returning home from parking his car in a nearby lot. Two of the attackers beat him with steel rods. He was injured on the head, the belly, and the knee before passers-by heard his calls for help and the attackers ran away, he said from his home. He said he has been harassed by authorities before and believes the men, who were not in uniform, were connected to the police, adding that one of the attackers had a familiar face. Quan, who has participated in anti-China demonstrations that authorities have watched closely since last year, said he did not know what prompted this attack against him, but that he believed it was to chastise him for his activism. "I am considered a dissident by the Communist Party. I work to change this regime with nonviolent measures and I have suffered a lot of hardship [for this] in the past five years," Quan said. Other participants in the string of demonstrations held to oppose Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea have also reported being harassed by the authorities. Detention Quan was jailed for three months in 2007 after he returned from spending half a year in the U.S. under a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Democracy, a Washington-based non-profit funded by the U.S. government that supports pro-democracy activities worldwide. Though authorities initially announced no formal charges against him, he was later charged with taking part in "activities to overthrow the people's government" and eventually released following protests from the United States. Quan has written on topics including civil rights, political pluralism, and religious freedom and has attended activist demonstrations and trials of fellow dissidents. Last year, he was detained while waiting outside the trial of legal activist Cu Huy Ha Vu and held for a week. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says he is one of a group of nearly a dozen lawyers and legal defenders who have been arbitrarily arrested, detained, disbarred, and pressured not to represent political or religious activists. Reported by Gwen Ha for RFA's Vietnamese service. Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink. |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:42 PM PDT The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam has held rare talks with two local prominent dissidents—the head of a banned Buddhist group under de facto house arrest and a prodemocracy activist—in an apparent bid to highlight religious freedom and prodemocracy activism in the country. Ambassador David Shear met separately on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City with Thich Quang Do, the octogenarian head of the unsanctioned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), and activist Nguyen Dan Que, a former political prisoner. Two UBCV monks in central Vietnam's Danang were beaten the same day of the meetings, according to the Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB), which represents UBCV abroad. UBCV patriarch Do, 83, who is confined under constant surveillance at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery, spoke with Shear about repression against the group, which has clashed with authorities since its founding in the 1960s, according to IBIB. He called on the ambassador to pay attention to unsanctioned religious groups like UBCV in Vietnam, where religious activity is closely monitored and religious groups must operate under government-controlled management boards. Do expressed his concern to Shear that the U.S. underestimates the level of authorities' harassment and intimidation of UBCV members, IBIB said. South China Sea Do also called on the U.S. to help Hanoi defend its territorial claims against Beijing in the South China Sea, an issue many of Vietnam's dissidents have been detained or harassed for speaking out about. "The ambassador agrees with me that no country other than the U.S. has the ability to confront China's aggressiveness. In fact, American help to Vietnam is also of benefit to the U.S.'s own freedom of navigation in the East Sea," he said in an interview Monday, using the Vietnamese term for the South China Sea. Hundreds of protesters have taken part in weekly anti-China demonstrations in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, calling for the government to do more about China's alleged aggression in the region. Vietnamese authorities have often allowed to the demonstrations to take place, but detain or harass participants afterwards. Prodemocracy activism After meeting with Do, Shear visited the home of Que, a former physician who has spent a total of over two decades either in prison or under house arrest for his activism since 1978. The website of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said Shear "discusse[d] human rights and religious freedom" with the two dissidents. It posted photos of the visits by Shear, who was accused in July by a U.S. congressman for not speaking out strongly enough on human rights abuses in Vietnam. Que, 70, said the two discussed the ambassador's commitment to supporting human rights in Vietnam, IBIB said. "The ambassador informed me about what he himself and the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi have done for improving human rights and democracy in Vietnam in the past year. He emphasized that U.S. policy is consistent that economic and military cooperation must go hand in hand with human rights and democracy improvement," Que said. Que, who founded the Non-Violent Movement for Human Rights, has often spoken out about the need for democracy and human rights accountability in the country. "I told [Shear] that his visit to my house is not only an honor for me but also a great inspiration for other activists and a significant boost for the Non-Violent Movement for Human Rights and Democracy in Vietnam." He also updated Shear on the current situation for Vietnam's political prisoners, he said.  U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear shakes hands with Nguyen Dan Que after their meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Aug. 17, 2012. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Buddhists beaten Meanwhile on Friday, two UBCV members were beaten outside the Giac Minh Pagoda, a temple belonging to the group in central Vietnam's Danang city, by youths they believe were plainclothes police working with the authorities, IBIB said. The youths stopped Le Cong Cau, a leader of the UBCV Buddhist Youth Movement, when he was about to enter the temple and told him not to go there, and then also beat monk Thich Thanh Quang who came to help him, the group said. After youths beat the two outside the pagoda, two uniformed security police came to the scene and ordered the two UBCV members to go to the police station, IBIB said. Human rights Washington has also recently taken steps to back off of earlier criticism of Hanoi's rights record. The 2012 list of CPCs is yet to be announced by the State Department, but the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a congressional watchdog, recommended Vietnam be put on the list this year, saying the communist government there severely restricts religious practice and "brutally" represses those who challenge its authority. During their meeting Do gave Shear a memorandum documenting authorities' harassment and intimidation of UBCV members and saying that the State Department's most recent annual report did not fully reflect the level of harassment the group was subjected to, IBIB said. "Whilst appreciating the 2011 State Department's report of abuses against the UBCV, we are concerned that they portray but a pale picture of the systematic police pressures, harassment and intimidation faced by UBCV Buddhists in every aspect of their daily lives," Do said in the memo, according to IBIB. Reported by RFA's Vietnamese service. Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink. |
| Family of 12 killed in truck accident in southwest China Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:22 PM PDT Chongqing, China – According to Xinhua News, a family of 12 people were killed after their van crashed in to a coming truck in the suburb of Chongqing City on August 20. The accident occurred at 12:33pm on state highway 110 from Hechuan to Beibei District. 12 people died at the scene while the truck driver was severely injured. The local official said the family was on their way back home from a family trip when the tragedy happened. The recent heavy rain hit the city could also be a cause of the accident, Xinhua said. FMN |
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