BBC News, 5 September 2008- The Chinese government is reported to have sent thousands of soldiers and police to quell unrest in the central province of Hunan. Up to 10,000 people took to the streets in Jishou to demand money back from an allegedly fraudulent fundraising firm, a Hong Kong-based rights group said. In another protest in the [...]

Mainichi Daily News, Japan, Sep. 6, 2008- OSAKA — Wholesale rice processing firm Mikasa Foods sold around 300 tons of rice that was not supposed to be used as food due to problems such as excessive chemical levels, allowing it to be used for human consumption, it has been learned. The rice came from about 1,800 tons [...]

Radio Free Asia, 2008-09-04- Phone service for relatives and associates of a jailed blind activist is curtailed before the Paralympics open. HONG KONG— In the run-up to the Paralympic Games in Beijing, people close to a prominent jailed blind activist have suddenly found their access to telecommunications limited. The wife of Chen Guangcheng, a human rights lawyer currently [...]

AFP, Sep. 4, 2008- BEIJING (AFP) — Schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake may have been substandard structures hastily built in a construction frenzy, China conceded Thursday, as it said the death toll could top 87,000. Ma Zongjin, director of the expert committee on the May disaster, said schools could have collapsed because their “structure was [...]

By Wen Hua, Epoch Times Staff Sep 3, 2008- September 4 marks 113th day since the devastating Sichuan earthquake. It also marked the back-to-school day in mainland China, and also the day China started to lift its nine-year compulsory education fee. While 11,687 schools are in need of reconstruction and the exact casualties from the collapsed [...]

The China Scoop, Sep. 3, 2008- An article circulating on the Internet, has quoted the claims made by Peng Guangqian, Military General of Chinese Academy of Military Science: there are only few countries that are able to fight the war against China; in other words, no country is ready to do that. Peng said that China’s [...]

Reuters, Sep 4, 2008- BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and 36 injured on Thursday when a Chinese sleeper bus crashed inside a tunnel, Xinhua news agency said. The 44-sleeper bus was carrying 46 people when it crashed in Lishui, in eastern Zhejiang province, shortly after midnight, killing 10 people on the spot. China’s roads [...]

The Epochtimes, Sep. 3, 2008- Two former Bank of China branch managers were convicted on charges of racketeering and laundering US$485 million from the bank, th U.S. Department of Justice said. A federal jury in Las Vegas on August 29 convicted Xu Chaofan and Xu Guojun and their wives, Yu Ying Yi and Kuang Wan Fang, on [...]

More than 170 million Chinese schoolchildren tuned into a compulsory two-hour propaganda broadcast designed to fill them with pride over the Olympics and China’s response to the Sichuan earthquake in May. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai, The Telegraph, UK, 01 Sep 2008- On Monday evening, the first day of the new academic year, the Ministry of [...]

The China Scope, 29 August 2008- Russian Defense companies are ready to transfer to China the “Tornado” multi-rocket technology, reported People’s Daily citing Kommersant. China hopes with Russian technology, it will complete the research and development of A-100 long-range rockets. Although A-100 is meant to mimic the “Tornado” system, its technical performance lags behind the latter. In [...]