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• Human Rights Front and Center

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  As James Fallows’ blog makes clear, President Obama’s human rights effort in China was more nuanced, and probably more successful, than people unfamiliar with China and Asia more generally can easily gauge.  The question is whether human rights have a permanent foothold in U.S. foreign policy. Right now our ...
  21 hours ago

• Golf in China is go

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  It is chilly and wet back home in Sichuan province but Chen Ming cheerfully tees off in shorts on a sunny palmlined golf course on the southerly Hainan island.
  1 day ago

• China: Sham Trial of Veteran Human Rights Activist

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 682
  (New York) - The conviction of veteran human rights activist Huang Qi on state secrets charges on November 23, 2009, demonstrates the Chinese governments intent to use the judicial apparatus to crush whistleblowers without regard to minimum standards of fairness, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• A living, working relic leaves locals unenthusiastic

  
  Changing China — Authority: 468
  Deep in mountainous Sichuan province, locals are relying on one of the world’s last passenger steam trains as their only form of transport. This living relic has never been updated since 1959, when it was rolled out to transport coal from a local mine. It runs along narrow gauge tracks roughly half the width of ...
  2 days ago

• China ’sentences quake activist to three years’

  
  Status of Chinese People — Authority: 129
  AFP, Nov. 22, 2009- BEIJING — A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year’s Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said. Huang Qi, 46, who had investigated accusations that shoddy school construction contributed to ...
  2 days ago

• China Quake Dissident Jailed for 3 Years

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 638
  Huang Qi, an activist who investigated shoddy school construction after the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008, has been sentenced to three years in jail. From Washington Post : Chinese dissident Huang Qi was sentenced to three years’ jail on Monday on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his wife said, ...
  2 days ago

• Melbourne Food Review: SiChuan Dining Room, Hawthorn

  
  spatula, spoon and saturday — Authority: 121
  Oh my god, I am so stoked about this place. I have read John Lethlean’s reviews on Epicure ( review 1 & review 2 ) and in both reviews he stressed about how interesting the menu is so we decided to give it a go one (very) late Saturday lunch. From the outside, the restaurant looks just like any other ...
  4 days ago

• China: Obama Leaves, Activists Tried

  
  Status of Chinese People — Authority: 129
  Radio Free Asia, 2009-11-20 - HONG KONG — Hard on the heels of a state visit to China by U.S. President Barack Obama, authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have begun the trial of a former 1989 student leader and will shortly sentence an activist who tried to help victims of last year’s ...
  4 days ago

• Hot (Pot) & Ice (Cream)

  
  rachelleb.com — Authority: 127
  I found out from Hopstop that to get from the Garment District to Chinatown I’d just need to take the A train down to Canal. The A train entrance closest to my hotel was located at 40th Street and 8th Avenue, which is where this building is located: Pretty! I met Jessica at the A line Canal stop. Our old ...
  5 days ago

• China Quake

  
  Mercury News Photo — Authority: 104
  Tech companies and NGOs help school children recover from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. [See post to watch Flash video]
  5 days ago

• Asia Cast for Thursday 19th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 126
  Poster promoting the Quit the CCP movement: many Chinese are waiting for the Communist Party to collapse as the Berlin Wall did 20 years ago. In this Bulletin… - Outrage at misuse of human blood products; - Opposition says Chinese students threaten Taiwanese jobs; and - Church of Scientology under fire in ...
  6 days ago

• China puts dissident student leader on trial after Obama leaves

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Los Angeles, Nov.19 (ANI): US President Barack Obama may have subtly called on China to improve its human rights record and allow for greater freedom of speech during his three-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, but that did not stop China from putting a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement on trial on ...
  6 days ago

• Austria says ’so long’ to Fu Long the panda

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 145
  (AP) VIENNA — A 2-year-old panda who charmed his way into the hearts of Austrians is headed to China. Fu Long has been the star attraction at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo since he was born there on Aug. 23, 2007. Artificial insemination is common practice when breeding captive pandas but Fu Long was conceived ...
  6 days ago

• More Sichuan Cooking

  
  Food Stories — Authority: 408
  Sometimes there is only one thing capable of cheering me up and that is an afternoon of uninterrupted cooking. Since I twigged that I can have a go at making Sichuan food at home (duh), rarely a week has passed when I’ve not been drawn to its hot, numbing intensity. I’m now happily chomping my way through some ...
  1 week ago

• Seven Nature Reserves In China Join Biosphere Program

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  Seven nature reserves have been approved by the Chinese National Committee for Man and Biosphere Program to join the China Biosphere Protection Network. The reserves include Tianbaoyan in Fujian; Nanshan in Guangdong; Jiuduansha Marshland in Shanghai; Dongyanggou in Sichuan; and Jiangcuibei Marshland in ...
  1 week ago

• Hummer Plans H4, H5 Amid Uncertain Future [Carpocalypse]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 732
  Hummer is being sold to Chinas Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery with production of current generation vehicles to be carried out under contract by GM. Moving forward, Hummers new Chinese leaders plans to get smaller with an H4 and H5. Hummer brand CEO Jim Taylor , speaking with Automotive News , ...
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• Miss International 2009 Contestants

  
  iKUWADERNO.com — Authority: 134
  iKUWADERNO.com The 49th Miss International pageant will take place at the Sichuan International Tennis Hotel, Chengdu, Sichuan, China on November 28, 2009.Argentina Mercedes ViañaAruba Christina TrejoAustralia Kelly Louise MaguireBahamas Aisha DelaneyBelarus Yana SupranovichBelgium Cassandra D’ErmilioBolivia ...
  1 week ago

• Tradition and tea

  
  Changing China — Authority: 468
  An evening’s entertainment in traditional Chinese style. Sichuan face-changing dances and teacup musicians keep the ancient Chinese arts alive in the famous Lao She Teahouse at the centre of Beijing.
  1 week ago

• Pandas for Singapore

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 145
  By Lim Wei Chean – The Straits Times HERE is the first glimpse of the pair of fuzzy darlings that are headed our way in the second half of 2011. The two-year-old male and one-year-old female giant pandas are currently in China’s panda reserve in Wolong in Sichuan province. They each have a twin sibling, which ...
  1 week ago

• China: Laid-off Teachers, Workers Protest

  
  Status of Chinese People — Authority: 129
  Radio Free Asia, 2009-11-10 - HONG KONG — More than 100 laid-off elementary school teachers in central China petitioned the local government Tuesday over retirement pensions, members of the group said. The teachers, who work for the education system in Dawu county of central China’s Hubei province, said they ...
  2 weeks ago

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