Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'corruption'
Travel Bans For Activists
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 05, 2010 People previously allowed free movement are now having problems leaving China Chinese lawyers, academics, and rights activists say that authorities are increasingly targeting them through immigration controls, with a growing number of people prevented...
Violence Near Tech Park
By Radio Free Asia19 July 2010 Residents want Beijing to investigate graft allegations around a property deal. Thousands of people surrounded government offices near Suzhou's flagship high-tech industrial park in recent days, sparking clashes between riot police and residents angry...
Is China Headed for a Crash?
By PHILIP BOWRING | Op-Ed Contributor | International Herald Tribune | The New York TimesMay 11, 2010 China talk is confusing. The Shanghai stock market is at its lowest level in eight months, with the real estate sector especially hard-hit....
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
Murky world of corruption in China
By Michael Bristow | BBC NewsMarch 29, 2010 Bribery and other forms of corruption are problems often encountered by foreign businesses operating in China. This can result in companies providing clients with expensive trips abroad, lavish meals and red envelopes...
The Dark Side of China Aid
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER and SARAH COOK | The New York Times (Christopher Walker is director of studies and Sarah Cook is an Asia researcher at Freedom House)March 25, 2010 A growing number of developing countries receive billions of dollars a...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
Lead Pollution Harms Children
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 05, 2010 Villagers in southern China say authorities are trying to hide the effects of lead poisoning on their children. More than 100 children in a village in southern China have tested positive for elevated lead...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
Activists Mark Rights Day
By Radio Free Asia December 08, 2009 Chinese activists risk surveillance and detention as they mark two anniversaries. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou have detained an activist who applied to hold a symposium on World Human Rights...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
China Helps the Powerful in Namibia
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 20, 2009 Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia, an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children. The Chinese government has stepped forward to help...
Guinea Boasts of Deal With Chinese Company
By Adam Nossiter | THE NEW YORK TIMESOctober 14, 2009 Guinea's military government, facing international sanctions and heavy strictures over a mass killing of unarmed demonstrators, is highlighting a recent agreement with a Chinese company that could provide it with...
Honor China, Not Its Communism
By Investors Business DailySeptember 30, 2009 Public Relations: The Empire State Building this week will illuminate red and yellow, celebrating China's 60 years of communist rule. There are many things to appreciate about China, but communism isn't one of them....
China Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMESSeptember 22, 2009 WINDHOEK, Namibia -- It is not every day that global leaders set foot in this southern African nation of gravel roads, towering sand dunes and a mere...
Tainted Milk Parents Held
By Radio Free AsiaSeptember 14, 2009 Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children. Three parents of children sickened in China's 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of...
China Tainted Milk Parents Warned Against Meeting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times10 September 2009 Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said...
Lead Children Denied Tests
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 26, 2009 Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning. Promises by local government officials offering free blood tests to children affected by pollution from smelting...
Reporters banned from Chinese village
By BBC World NewsAugust 25, 2009 Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick. Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists,...
Parents of China lead victims fear for future
By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse AFP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 23, 2009 HENGJIANG, China (AFP) - The landscape near Hengjiang village offers a picture-postcard view of China, with rice paddies, water buffaloes and rolling green hills. It...
China bans petitioners in Beijing
By Shirong Chen - BBC News15 August 2009 The Chinese government has issued a new regulation to stop petitioners from travelling to the capital, Beijing. Legal officials from Beijing will now visit people with complaints in the provinces in order...
Clashes Over Quake Trial
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 13, 2009 Chinese writer Tan Zuoren goes on trial, and supporters say his plan to issue an independent report on last year's deadly earthquake is the reason. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have...
China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free
By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok | FORBES MAGAZINE via forbes.comAugust 07, 2009 In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and...
China Urged to Cancel Quake Trials
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesAugust 06, 2009 Human rights advocates are calling on the Chinese government to cancel the criminal trials of two men who pushed for official investigations into the causes of widespread school collapses during...
Namibians Say Inquiry on China Will Expand
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 August 2009 Namibian prosecutors investigating allegations of kickbacks on government contracts with China have expanded their inquiry to include a Chinese contract to build a key railroad link, investigators...
Chinese 'diplomacy' exposed
By John Grobler - Mail&Guardian (South Africa)July 27, 2009 In yet another example of sharp Chinese diplomatic elbows in African business it has emerged that the China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Company (CMEC) tried to charge Namibia...
China Censors News of Hu's Son
By RADIO FREE ASIAJuly 24, 2009 Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing. Chinese authorities shut down sections of two major Web portals...
Graft Inquiry in Namibia Finds Clues in China
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesJuly 22, 2009 To the likely consternation of diplomats in both Beijing and faraway Windhoek, a newly minted initiative by Namibia's government to root out official corruption has snared an early catch: three...
Crackdown on Rights Lawyers
By RADIO FREE ASIA17 July 2009 Chinese authorities in Beijing have closed a legal research center and revoked the licenses of more than 50 attorneys in a bid to exert greater control over activists. Some 20 officials from Beijing's Civil...
Despite Law, Job Conditions Worsen in China
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 23, 2009 Liu Pan, a 17-year-old factory worker, was crushed to death last April when the machine he was operating malfunctioned. Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics
By Erik Eckholm | THE NEW YORK TIMESMay 15, 2009 In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China's Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping,...
No blame in China school collapse
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsMay 08, 2009 China says it has found no evidence that human negligence caused schools to collapse during last year's earthquake. Thousands of schools were damaged while buildings nearby remained intact in the massive...
In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger
By Jill Drew - Washington Post Foreign Service | THE WASHINGTON POST May 03, 2009 JUYUAN, China -- After last May's massive earthquake buried her son under tons of shattered concrete at his collapsed school, Han Xuehua, numb and disbelieving,...
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 ZHONGLOU, China -- When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black...
China quake activist detained: rights group
By AFP (Agence France Presse) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsApril 01, 2009 Police in southwestern China have detained an activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in last year's massive earthquake, a rights groups said Wednesday. The...
Seeking Justice, Chinese Land in Secret Jails
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times09 March 2009 They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city's south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats. Known as "black houses," they...
Huang Qi
EDITORIAL - THE NEW YORK TIMES08 February 2009 In a changing world, one unfortunate constant is the abhorrent ways in which China abuses its people. Huang Qi is a victim of that abuse because he dared to help other victims...
China Rights Advocate Who Tried to Aid Quake Victims' Parents Faces Trial
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 03, 2009 A human rights advocate who tried to help grieving parents push for an official investigation into a school that collapsed during May's earthquake in Sichuan Province has been charged with...
2 Uighurs Sentenced to Death for West China Police Assault
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES18 December 2008 A court in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang has sentenced two men to death for an attack in August that killed 17 paramilitary officers, according to a report on...
China's coming collapse: hidden crisis, global financial mess, corruption
By Centro de Medios Independientes Valparaiso (Chile)December 13, 2008 Is China about to collapse due to hidden crises and corruption? Is global financial crisis impacting China? Is a runaway government corruption destroying Chinese economy and peace? What is really behind...
Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
By CBS NEWS - 60 MINUTES - Broadcast on November 09, 2008 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth - a place government officials and gangsters don't want you to see....
Courts Compound Pain of China's Tainted Milk
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 17, 2008 The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby's urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine...
Lawyers' Outrage at Milk Case Ban
By RADIO FREE ASIA07 October 2008 Lawyers in China are warned against taking on cases related to a widening scandal over tainted milk. Chinese lawyers have slammed a government directive banning them from taking on cases related to the contaminated...
Vietnam finds tainted milk from China
By Associated Press - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 07, 2008 Vietnam finds 23 tainted milk products imported from China HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Melamine contamination has been found in 23 milk products imported into Vietnam from China, officials said Tuesday,...
China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics: critics
By Peter Harmsen | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 30, 2008 China knew about the contamination of milk products months ago but covered the scandal up to prevent it tarnishing the Beijing Olympics, according to journalists, rights...
A Rising China Must Have Business Morals
Sin Chew Jit Poh (Malaysia) | MYsinchew.comSeptember 24, 2008 About the same time last year, I wrote an article titled "Souring of 'Made In China' Products" in this column to slam the poor safety of Chinese manufactured products. Despite the...
Nearly 13,000 hospitalized in China milk scandal
By Chris Buckley | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 22, 2008 The number of Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula doubled to nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator resigned on Monday in the...
Riot police quell two separate large protests in China
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 05, 2008 China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock...
China's product safety agency under pressure from within
By Don Lee | The Los Angeles TimesSeptember 01, 2008 Lawsuits filed by eight Chinese firms alleging collusion by the government ministry could test the country's new anti-monopoly law. China's product quality and food safety agency came under pressure last...
Police, money silence protests over China quake school deaths
By Robert J. Saiget - Agence France Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 27, 2008 Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests,...
China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES 24 July 2008 The official came for Yu Tingyun in his village one evening last week. He asked Mr. Yu to get into his car. He was clutching the contract and a...
China's coming collapse: corruption, finance, trade, outsourcing, politics, law, society
By Centro de Medios Independientes Santiago (Chile)July 20, 2008 Is China about to go burst? What is really behind Chinese finance, politics, trade, politics and society? Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption...
Chinese Riot Over Handling of Girl's Killing
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times 30 June 200 Thousands of people have rioted in a county in southwest China, setting fire to government buildings and overturning cars in angry protests over the official handling of the death...
China detains critic of schools collapsed by quake
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times18 June 2008 A retired Chinese schoolteacher who criticized the construction of schools that collapsed in last month's powerful earthquake has been detained, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Wednesday. Police detained...
Sensitive China Quake Photo Removed
By Cara Anna - The Associated Press - via ABC NEWSJune 15, 2008 A photograph hinting at shoddy school construction was pulled from an exhibition about last month's devastating earthquake, an apparent indication of rising government sensitivity over an issue...
Chinese Parents Call Off Quake Memorial After Official Warning
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJune 13, 2008 Parents who lost children in a particularly horrific school collapse during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province scrapped their plan for a one-month mourning ceremony on Thursday after local...
Reporters kicked out of China city where schools collapsed
By Dan Martin - Agence France Presse | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJune 12, 2008 Police on Thursday kicked foreign journalists out of a city where the collapse of several schools in China's earthquake drew charges of corruption from parents of...
China's Local Leaders Hold Absolute Power
By Edward Cody | The Washington PostJune 10, 2008 Party Vows Reform but Moves Slowly When Zhang Zhiguo took over as Communist Party leader in Xifeng county, he was determined to make his mark, to push this impoverished corner of...
Media Banned From Quake School
By RADIO FREE ASIA June 06, 2008 Parents across southwestern China are struggling to hold local officials accountable for allegedly shoddy construction standards in school buildings that collapsed during the May 12 earthquake. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan...
Grieving quake parents want facts
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJune 05, 2008 Parents fear there will not be a proper investigation into why so many schools collapsed in last month's earthquake in China. Many complain that although local authorities have promised to investigate, they...
Police drag parents away from quake protest
By Associated Press | via ABC World News June 03, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last...
Parents' Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesMay 28, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Bereaved parents whose children were crushed to death in their classrooms during the earthquake in Sichuan Province have turned mourning ceremonies into protests in recent days, forcing officials...
Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Fell
By JIM YARDLEY | The New York TimesMay 25, 2008 This story was reported by Jim Yardley, Jake Hooker and Andrew C. Revkin, and was written by Mr. Yardley. Shoddy Construction "Stole Our Children," Parents Lament - Subject is Banned...
Why China's buildings crumbled
By Geoffrey York | The Globe and Mail (Canada) May 15, 2008 The bodies of the children were lined up in a long row in the mud of a basketball court, just outside the flattened school. Every few minutes, another...
China Detains 1,000 Petitioners Ahead of Parliament
By RADIO FREE ASIA March 04, 2008 Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained around 1,000 people with grievances against the government ahead of the country's annual parliament which opens in Beijing Wednesday, petitioners told RFA's Mandarin service. "I'd say...
Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death
By David Barboza | The New York TimesJanuary 18, 2008 More than 100 people are under investigation and several government officials have been detained or removed from office in central China after a dispute in early January in which a...
Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China's Boom
By Howard W. French | The New York Times January 13, 2008 YANGMIAO, China -- When she gets sick, Li Enlan, 78, picks herbs from the woods that grow nearby instead of buying modern medicines. That is not a result...
Far From Beijing's Reach, Officials Bend Energy Rules
By Howard W. French | The New York Times24 November 2007 When the central government in Beijing announced an ambitious nationwide campaign to reduce energy consumption two years ago, officials in this western regional capital got right to work: not...
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