Dissident who criticised Olympics:The regime only oppress you

According to www.AFP.com, A Chinese cyber-dissident who criticised the government over human rights abuses ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games has been detained on suspicion of subverting state power, his wife said on Dec 19, 2007. Wang Dejia, better known by his pen name Jing Chu, was hauled off by police who raided his home in the southern province of Guangxi last Thursday.

 

Edwin Maher: A friendship representative or betrayer of Journalsim?

Edwin Maher, an Australian weatherman who was working for ABC over 20 years, suddenly disappeared from the screen and joined China Central TV Channel 9 in 2003. He is the first foreign reporter who read the news for Chinese audience, which has induced a lot of taunts and reproaching from western media. Some critics viciously described him as “News Betrayer” and “Voice of CCP”. Los Angeles Times recently published a long article about Maher. He indicated that he is very angry as to the unreasonable assaults from western media and will be unperturbed towards those attacks and jibes. He said to the reporter: “I don’t really care.”

Last week, Maher had been awarded the Friendship Medal by China Central TV.

 

Satire: Law Promotion Day turned out to be ‘Appeal for Justice Day’

Every December 4th is the National Law Promotion Day promoted by the CCP. But the petitioners say they want to change it to petitioners’ “appealing for justice day.” (Dec 6,2007 NTDTV)

On the eve of that day 200 petitioners from across the China gathered in Beijing for Law Publicity Day. At around 10 a.m. the day before, petitioners held an activity at the outskirts of Gongyi East Bridge to announce the first “Appeal for Justice Day.” Reporters from England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Taiwan were there interviewing participants.

 

Facebook and its Chinese version: Is that possible?

According to News Media Age (nma.co.uk Dec,4) Facebook has sold $60 (£29m) stake to Hong Kong billionare Li Ka-shing, who was also behind mobile network 3.

The deal, accounting for 0.4% of the company, marks the second stake to be sold in Facebook. Microsoft bought a 1.6% share in the company for $240m (£117m) in October this year. The move will fuel speculation that Facebook is looking to break into the Chinese ad market because Ka-shing’s Hong Kong-based media company TOM Group operates in this market….

 

Panda girls? The government shouts out: NO!

The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People’s Congress, in west China’s Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods. If passed, it would become the world’s first panda law.(Xinhua News Agency Nov 24,2007) Funny. But the funniest part of it is the reason why Chinese government passes such a weird law.

 

Who to choose and how to choose: dilemma of the reincarnation of living Buddhas

Since being a child, I had been told by my school teachers over and over again that “Religion is the opium etherizing people’s spirit”, a piece of logion written by Karl Marx. And every time after that statement the teachers would add: “As a member of the socialistic nation, every one of us is an atheist.” Well, it sounds nice. Ironically, for so many reasons the real activity of Communist Party is quite distinct from their propaganda of atheist, especially when it comes to political movements as to Tibet. Last week, when Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader and Nobel Prize laureate, announced publicly the possibility that he might choose a successor by appointment or through an election before his death, Beijing government instantly denounced that it disobeyed the Tibetan rite. “The reincarnation of ­living Buddhas…” said the Chinese foreign ministry. “clearly violated religious rituals and historical customs.”

 

The Change of Attitudes: a Naxi girl’s environment campaign

“Because I’m Naxi, I have a strong sense of roots and belonging,”

Cun Yanfang, a member of the indigenous Naxi people from one of southwest China’s more remote villages, has garnered international attention for her ability to change local attitudes. Being a member of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and a graduate from Kent University in England, she is now traveling to Yunan Province and starting a campaign to save the region’s prized golden monkeys. (Christian Science Monitor, Nov/23/2007)

 

Thursday: Final homes razed for Three Gorgers dam or, damn

Before narrating anything about my hometown to you, I’d like to quote a line in the movie drama composed by Zhangke Jia, an avant-garde Chinese director who wins the golden lion for best film at the 63^rd Venezia Film Festival, saying : “An ancient town with one thousand years of history is now demolished in ten months. It will of course arose loads of problems” (Still Life, 2006)

 

The corruption scandal of PCI indicates: They don’t really care about us

10 years ago，a treaty dealing with the disposal of 100,000 gas bombs which were abandoned by Japanese invaders after the Second World War was issued by both Chinese and Japanese government. However, during all those years, Japanese government not only delayed bomb disposal time, but also let the Japanese businessmen be earmarked corruption while defusing bombs.

 

Some Thoughts on Gates’s Visit to China

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Cao Gangchuan Monday to discuss broadening defense relations, which is his first time in China after inauguration. Gates said China and America would establish a hotline between their defence ministries and defense relations between the two countries should expand as the United States and China’s economic ties strengthen. (United Press International Nov. 5, 2007)