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- Alibaba launches search engine in bid to boost market share, channels
- Opening Kinmen islets to tourism under review: ministry
- Experts: China Spies Have Hacked Most Of D.C.
- Deliberate Pollution of Groundwater Shocks Chinese Netizens
- Chinese Soldiers Ordered to Make Fried Rice with Leftovers
- Jookin From Memphis to Colbert, By Way of China
- Xtep to close over 100 shops in China's sporting goods freefall
- iPhone components and DIY repair kits hot sellers in China
- Acer to showcase new smartphones at world's largest mobile tech fair
- Uni-President to expand investments in domestic, China markets
- Wukan Villagers’ Land Not Returned One Year On
- Chinese automakers turn to foreign star power
- The cop, the thief, their park and his precinct: all with same name
- China to introduce stricter air pollution policy from March
- Kaohsiung expects NT$40bn revenue from Ho Fa industrial park
- Small Chinese mining company buys French aircraft producer
- Taiwan's new cabinet faces five immediate challenges
- Chinese Companies Getting Good at Attracting Talent
- Moutai, Wuliangye slapped with symbolic anti-monopoly fines
- Top China Stories from WSJ: Cities Guard Property Details, Hacking
| Alibaba launches search engine in bid to boost market share, channels Posted: 21 Feb 2013 05:10 AM PST Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba has launched its own search engine — Aliyun — after having withdrawn its investment in Sogou, the search engine owned by web portal Sohu, the Shanghai-based First F... |
| Opening Kinmen islets to tourism under review: ministry Posted: 21 Feb 2013 05:02 AM PST A plan to open two Kinmen county islets under military control to tourism is still being reviewed by the cabinet, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statem... |
| Experts: China Spies Have Hacked Most Of D.C. Posted: 20 Feb 2013 03:42 PM PST Start asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies, and this is the usual answer: almost ... Read more: Cybersecurity, China, Chinese Hackers, World News This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Deliberate Pollution of Groundwater Shocks Chinese Netizens Posted: 20 Feb 2013 08:25 PM PST  A screenshot of the Weibo topic about water pollution to which 2.9 million Weibo users responded with information about their local areas. Journalist Deng Fei subsequently reported how industries in Shandong Province are polluting groundwater by pumping toxic waster underground. (Epoch Times) The well-known journalist Deng Fei recently alarmed the public by reporting on Weibo (the popular Twitter-like service in China) how polluted water is pumped underground in Weifang City, in eastern China's Shandong Province. Many of the city's industrial enterprises (such as chemical plants and paper mills) have been evading official inspections by using high-pressure pumps to discharge wastewater containing toxic substances. Deng started his independent investigation into water pollution after asking his 2.5 million Weibo followers on Feb. 12 to post pictures of their local rivers. By Feb. 17 more than 2.9 million netizens had reported their hometowns' water pollution problems with posts to Weibo. According to Deng, the practice of pumping polluted water underground has been going on secretly for many years in Hebei and Shandong provinces.
The CEO of China's tea city website (www.ntea.cn), Jiang Rongsheng, posted on his Weibo that when he was in the investment consulting business 20 years ago, numerous officials he had met said they would "bury" waste from the dyeing and weaving industries "underground." That was something unforgettable to him, he commented. Deng's blog has been gaining much attention from the Chinese media due to its rise in popularity. Online forums have become battlegrounds between those who report the truth and those who censor it, with netizens continuously reposting Deng's blog soon after authorities have deleted it. Attorney Gan Yuanchun of Changsha City, Hunan Province, wrote in a Weibo post on Feb. 16, "Deng and Feng Yongfeng, who claims to be the founder of the University of Nature, have pointed out that Shandong officials lobbied in Beijing to prevent media reporting on the pollution. A CCTV documentary has been cut, and reporters in Weifang are under house arrest." Although Gan's Weibo was soon deleted, netizens have been reposting it all over the Internet using screenshots of his blog. A letter dated Feb. 16 allegedly written by the Environmental Protection Bureau to some enterprises in Weifang saying that CCTV was planning a secret investigation has also been circulating on Weibo. However, Weifang Environmental Monitoring Commander Xie Zhenxi has denied that the Bureau ever sent such a notice. According to a Sina news report the following day, Xie said he "cannot say much and was not clear" about the letter appearing on Weibo. While officials are trying to control information about the pollution by deleting weibo posts and shutting down media coverage, some members of the public who have managed to follow the controversy are quite angry. "These actions are horrendous. If they are proven to be true, shall we use high-pressure pumps to pump the officials and leaders underground as well?" a legal scholar named Xu Xin commented on Weibo. According to the Chinese regime's mouthpiece Xinhua, one third of China's water supply comes from underground. Investigative reports on 118 cities over the last two to seven years show that severely polluted water runs in 64 percent of the cities and mildly polluted water in 33 percent of them. Only 3 percent of the cities have clean water. Read original Chinese aritcle. The Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 21 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. |
| Chinese Soldiers Ordered to Make Fried Rice with Leftovers Posted: 20 Feb 2013 09:03 PM PST China's soldiers are arming themselves in the country's war on extravagance with a new weapon: leftovers. |
| Jookin From Memphis to Colbert, By Way of China Posted: 20 Feb 2013 08:34 PM PST Street dancer Charles "Lil' Buck" Riley is scheduled to attain a whole new level of pop culture cachet Thursday with an appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report -- and he has a 20-minute video of him dancing in China to thank for it. |
| Xtep to close over 100 shops in China's sporting goods freefall Posted: 21 Feb 2013 04:06 AM PST Xtep International Holdings, one of China's leading fashion sportswear companies, announced the closure of nearly 100 shops last year, adding to a total of more than 3,000 store closures in the sporti... |
| iPhone components and DIY repair kits hot sellers in China Posted: 21 Feb 2013 04:06 AM PST Savvy operators in China are cashing in on the popularity of Apple's iPhone by selling phone components and DIY maintenance kits as iPhone owners whose warranty has expired are taking to repairing the... |
| Acer to showcase new smartphones at world's largest mobile tech fair Posted: 21 Feb 2013 04:06 AM PST Taiwanese computer hardware maker Acer will showcase three new Android smartphones catering to a range of users at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 25-28. One of the Taoyuan-based ... |
| Uni-President to expand investments in domestic, China markets Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:54 AM PST Uni-President Enterprises said Wednesday it is optimistic about the food industry on both sides of Taiwan Strait and will increase its investments in both markets. The company is building eight new... |
| Wukan Villagers’ Land Not Returned One Year On Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:28 PM PST  Villagers hold banners during a protest rally in Wukan, Guangdong Province, on Dec. 19, 2011, demanding central authorities take action over illegal land grabs and the death of a local leader in custody. Over a year later, villagers say they are not satisfied with how things turned out. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) The southern Chinese village of Wukan, which was the site of an international spectacle last year after villagers kicked out Communist Party officials and began running affairs for themselves, may soon see more protests. Communist authorities have again angered residents, after overriding the power of the democratically-elected village committee and breaking their promise to return land to dispossessed farmers. It has been nearly a year since the villagers in Guangdong Province elected their own village committee to preside over public affairs in March 2012. Out of the 1,977 acres of land illegally sold to developers by the previous ousted committee, about 1,153 acres have already been certified as state-owned land and cannot be retrieved. Authorities in Shanwei, which has jurisdiction over Wukan, claim that the remaining 824 acres have been handed over to the village committee, according to a report by Shanghai-based Dragon TV. However, the villagers do not know whether the allegedly returned properties have been leased or sold, nor have they received any compensation, the report said.
A villager told Dragon TV that locals are angry to have received nothing for their land, not even an explanation from the village committee. Villagers are planning another mass protest after the Chinese New Year holiday, a resident called Mr. Cai told the Sound of Hope (SOH) Radio Network on Feb. 15. Over the past year, the new village committee members have lost their passion and feel powerless to fight the corruption. Committee head Lin Zulian, who played a key role in the original Wukan protest, used to deliver passionate speeches before the new committee formed, saying the villagers would persevere against corruption, no matter how powerful the perpetrators' connections are. But now, he is afraid of seeing the villagers or taking their phone calls. "The inside story is complicated. I have to be careful with everything," he told Dragon TV. Lin said he regretted his involvement in the previous protests. "Why did I bother? Why did I bring this trouble upon myself?" However, he is hoping that young people can take over his work, and continue to fight for the villagers. A Guangdong provincial official told Dragon TV that although the newly elected village committee is in charge of Wukan, the authorities cannot just let it be. "The relevant Party departments still need to give it proper direction." A villager called Mr. Wu told The Epoch Times that there is still no democracy in Wukan. "Everything has to be approved by the Party, which claims to support the new village committee. The Party is still calling the shots," Wu said, "The village committee members either go along with the Party, or voluntarily resign." Reporter Liu Yiming of China Magazine told SOH that higher level officials have removed the village committee's power since its democratic election, preventing its members from carrying out their normal work. "Grassroots-level democracy will not work in China, because the Chinese Communist Party never wanted to actually practice democracy, let alone allow Western-style elections. This is determined by the entire political system," Liu added. Zhuang Liehong, one of the committee members, declared his resignation last October, saying he could not carry out his responsibilities due to the restraints of the system, Radio France Internationale reported. Zhang Jiancheng, another committee member, was forced to resign on Jan. 29. Translation by John Yang. Written in English by James Chi. The Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 21 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. |
| Chinese automakers turn to foreign star power Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:38 AM PST Brad Pitt is set to make waves in China through his appearance in a domestic auto company's advertising campaign, the Beijing-based Economic Observer reports. After Shanghai General Motors signed P... |
| The cop, the thief, their park and his precinct: all with same name Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:38 AM PST A police officer in Taipei named Peng Wen-de recently apprehended a thief with the same name as himself at a park in the city's Neihu district which also bears the same name, our sister paper China Ti... |
| China to introduce stricter air pollution policy from March Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:26 AM PST China's Ministry of Environmental Protection is to set limits on polluting emissions in 19 provinces, districts and cities from March 1, reports Shanghai's Oriental Morning Post, a move likely to affe... |
| Kaohsiung expects NT$40bn revenue from Ho Fa industrial park Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:26 AM PST The city government of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan says revenue of NT$40 billion (US$1.3 billion) can be expected from its Ho Fa Park when the industrial park opens, our Chinese-language affiliate Co... |
| Small Chinese mining company buys French aircraft producer Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:26 AM PST Leshan Heima Mining Co, a private mining company in the city of Leshan in southwestern China's Sichuan province, has spent €15 million (about US$20 million) on a 70% stake in Lisa Airplanes, a Frenc... |
| Taiwan's new cabinet faces five immediate challenges Posted: 21 Feb 2013 03:26 AM PST Jiang Yi-huah, Taiwan's new premier, will face a raft of challenges from day one after his new cabinet was sworn in on Feb. 18, according to an editorial published the same day in our Chinese-language... |
| Chinese Companies Getting Good at Attracting Talent Posted: 20 Feb 2013 06:56 PM PST As China's economic clout grows, its largest companies are giving foreign firms a run for their money in securing the best talent in the country. |
| Moutai, Wuliangye slapped with symbolic anti-monopoly fines Posted: 21 Feb 2013 02:50 AM PST The Chinese liquor industry was stunned on Feb. 19 after China's National Development and Reform Commission fined leading brands Kweichow Moutai and Wuliangye a total of 449 million yuan (US$72 millio... |
| Top China Stories from WSJ: Cities Guard Property Details, Hacking Posted: 20 Feb 2013 06:22 PM PST The White House outlined a strategy to fight cyberspying by China and other nations; ; local Chinese governments are moving to restrict access to information on private homeownership despite a series of corruption scandals. |
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