(Welcome back to RespChi blogger, Mark Hiew, who contributes this Q&A from his post in Chengdu!) The Sichuan earthquake of 2008, beyond the tens of thousands of lives it took, left behind a massive reconstruction task, to which the Chinese government recently committed 1 trillion Yuan ($146.5 billion). Yet alongside all of the houses and [...]
Breaking news, via The Wall Street Journal: “China Shutters Nonprofit Newsletter“ By Nicholas Zamiska July 11, 2007 HONG KONG — A widely read newsletter on Chinese development and human-rights issues has been shuttered after more than a decade by public security officials, according to the newsletter’s founder, amid what observers say may be heightened scrutiny [...]