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April 2005



Massacre site to become protest no-go zone during May holidays

Friday, 29 April 2005 2:37 P GMT+09
As part of a move to quell anti-Japanese demonstrations, it has been announced that officials in Jiangsu province are acting to act to prevent marchers from using the pending May holiday and surrounding events as a platform for protests in the histor

Covering Their rear: Beijing move to cool anti-Japanese sentiment lest it become anti government sentiment

Thursday, 28 April 2005 1:59 P GMT+09
After several weeks of offering tacit approval, and little in the way of resistance, Beijing has begun to make substantive moves to curtail the increasingly volatile anti-Japanese protests that began in March, with the ransacking of stores owner by I

Using thine enemy’s sword against him: Right Wing Think-tank warns Washington of potential new China threat

Monday, 25 April 2005 1:30 P GMT+09
While the outsourcing of manufacturing and design facilities, from the US to China, has long been of concern to US unions and labor groups, a new report by an influential Washington backed think-tank suggests that Beijing might be purposefully encour

[Photo Album] Wacky Chinese Stickmen

Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:36 A GMT+09
Open to View imagesBy unpopular demand, an archive of the wacky Chinese stickmen who frequents get blown up, castrated, or forced into a cage with an overly zealous monkey, in my ever popular parody of reality ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’. Oh, and Geor

[Photo Album] The Aftermath of Huankantou in pictures

Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:23 A GMT+09
Open article to view images provided courtesy of Boxun These images and more, including a personal account of the aftermath, can be found Boxun

Beijing’s ‘Poisoned Chalice’: Hope for Sino-Vatican reconciliation Fade as Beijing offers to accept Vatican surrender.

Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:12 A GMT+09
Hopes that the appointment of a new Papal father to the Roman Catholic Church might provide an opportunity for reconciliation between Beijing and the Vatican were cut short this week by the release of a ‘reconciliation’ offer from Beijing that mo

The Story of Hankantou (Part 1): Abused, betrayed, and angry

Friday, 22 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
"They came unannounced and uninvited, they stole the villager's land, poisoned their water supply, and when villagers tried to resist, they sent in men with machetes and army boots in the dead of night to 'once and for all' put down all local re

Appeasing the bully, or courting his neighbors: Japan Apologises to the world (and China)

Friday, 22 April 2005 4:41 P GMT+09
In a move that has come as a surprise to some, Japanese Prime Minster Koizumi Junichiro is set to give issue a formal apology for Japan’s war time aggression today during a summit of non aligned nation currently being held in JakartaWhile Japanese

Down The Rabbit Hole: Boycotting Japan for profit and Pleasure

Friday, 22 April 2005 11:57 A GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Boycotting Japan for profit and Pleasure     With all of the talk in the Chinese media of a boycott of Japane

Jakarta stage looks set to be next Sino-Japanese sparing ground

Tuesday, 19 April 2005 2:25 P GMT+09
It has been reported that Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro and his Chinese counterpart, President Hu Jintao are to hold a meeting, aimed at revolving current tensions, on the sideline of a pending meeting of African and Asian delegates in Ja

Beijing and Greenpeace face off over GM Rice Claim

Monday, 18 April 2005 11:22 A GMT+09
If claims released this week, by the environmental group Greenpeace, are accurate, central China’s rice industry could potentially be an environmental time-bomb waiting to explode, or final proof that genetically modified rice can be grown and cons

Sino-Canadian Mud-slinging reaches new and unusual heights.

Sunday, 17 April 2005 2:09 P GMT+09
While political mud-slinging between China and western nations is not unusual, a recent infraction between China and Canada stands out from the rest as being particularly unusual: It involved actual mud.Far from being thrown, the mud in question was

Angry Chinese Blogger hits the Google top Spot: for Huankantou

Saturday, 16 April 2005 3:28 P GMT+09
Angry Chinese Blogger has now become one of Google.com’s primary search hits for information on the village of Huankantou, ranking at number one for several key searches and ranking highly for others.Number 1Huankantou Huankantou unrestHuankantou t

Coming to America?: Washington think-tank warns that the US could be next on China’s hit-list.

Friday, 15 April 2005 4:50 P GMT+09
During a deposition to the Bush administration, Richard D'Amato, head of the influential US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, described feeling a sense of “Foreboding” over Beijing’s handling of disputes with Japan. Expressing that

Suppressing the Press: Foreign Journalists still not welcome in China

Thursday, 14 April 2005 1:46 P GMT+09
Despite claims to be opening up to the outside world and pledges to allow greater freedom and autonomy for foreign press operation in China that was made as part of China’s pledge towards the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, there are still many issu

The Domino Effect:: How small Headaches become big migraines

Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
In the West, it is called the domino effect; the supposition that one small event may cascade into many similar events and form a linear sequence that will eventually run out of control.For China, latest domino toppled in the village of Huankantou on

You have the right to remain silent: Locking up the Lawyers to silence the clients

Sunday, 10 April 2005 6:48 P GMT+09
The image of Chinese justice took another step backwards on 4 March 2005, when it was revealed that Guo Guoting, a mainland Chinese lawyer, had been placed under house arrest then prohibited from practicing law for one year for "anti-constitutio

China’s ‘cold war’ boils over, but could it burn Beijing too?

Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
In a series of worrying incidents, the diplomatic ‘cold war’ between China and Japan ignited this weekend, prompting politicians in Tokyo to call on their Chinese counterparts to ensure the safety of the tens of thousands of Japanese citizens who

Public Safety Notice for foreign residents of Beijing

Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:44 A GMT+09
Foreign residents in Beijing are advised to avoid the Zhongguancun Hailong Plaza electronics market in Haidian between the morning of 9 April (Saturday) and the even of 10 April (Sunday).Reports originating from a US source have indicated that this i

Sakura Matsuri festival: Washington, America

Saturday, 9 April 2005 9:00 A GMT+09
Sakura Matsuri festival Parade: Washington, America

Missing Chinese Migrant worker in New York found alive and well

Thursday, 7 April 2005 7:51 P GMT+09
Life for immigrants and foreign national in America can be a mix of ups and downs. Unfortunately, one Chinese resident of New York recently found that he couldn’t get sufficient of either to extract him from a tricky predicament.Ming Kungchen, a na

What you can't see doesn't exist. Right?

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
In a move that has disappointed, but not surprised, many China watchers, it has been revealed that a number of prominent China web portals and message services have been actively preventing users from publicly posting prayers, blessings, and even dis

All tied up, bar the shouting: EU delegation to offer reassurances over China arms sales

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 2:51 P GMT+09
Sources within the European Union have announced that the multi-nation block will be sending a delegation to Japan later this month to offer explanations and reassurances over the planned lifting of the EU arms embargo on China.It was not reveled exa

France holds its ground over China despite US brow beating

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
In a move that signals the European Union’s decision to continue on a path of reconciliation and tighter economic ties with China, French President Jacques Chirac, this weekend, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to lifting the 15 year old EU ar

Crook, Line, and Sinker: Taring the good with the bad

Monday, 4 April 2005 11:18 A GMT+09
This month, Chinese business practices were once again brought under official scrutiny when it was announced that three shipments of Chinese made DVD players were confiscated in Israeli after authorities discovered that they posed a tangible risk to