By Yan Wenxin, published: March 25, 2015
TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: WANG MAN (王曼), LI TINGTING (李婷婷), WU RONGRONG (武嵘嵘), ZHENG CHURAN (郑楚然) AND WEI TINGTING (韦婷婷). PHOTO CREDIT: HRIC
Lawyer Yan Wenxin (燕文薪)’s post on Weibo:
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After trying unsuccessfully for four consecutive work days, Continue reading
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Britain, the EU and US ambassador to the UN among those calling for activists detained just before International Women’s Day to be freed
Wei Tingting, right, waits outside a court in Beijing last year. Wei is one of five female activists detained for planning to put up anti-sexual harassment stickers. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP
Tania Branigan China correspondent
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By @WoodenHarp, published: March 22, 2015
An interesting take by an anonymous Chinese tweep.
If the China-US relationship from the early 1970s to the late 1980 was built on national security considerations of the two countries against their common Continue reading
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The founding prime minister of an independent Singapore, he sought to encourage prosperity through ensuring a dominant role for the state
Lee Kuan Yew at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2001. He saw in the economic success of east Asia the triumph of ‘Confucian values’: discipline, order, Continue reading
AFP By Felicia Sonmez
March 20, 2015 2:00 AM
Beijing (AFP) – A hard hat-clad American TV host grips the bamboo-and-steel scaffolding, the dizzying urban landscape of China’s commercial centre Shanghai unfolding far below him.
“I’m bringing cameras and questions to places outsiders are rarely permitted, to investigate the aspirations of the world’s fastest-growing middle class,” architect Danny Forster tells Discovery viewers.
There is just one catch: both the cameras — and the questions — are co-funded by the Chinese government.
Beijing has long sought to boost its “soft power” abroad, spending billions of yuan on expanding the international presence of its state-run media — including broadcaster CCTV Continue reading
Emily Rauhala / Beijing @emilyrauhala March 19, 2015
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Indian women’s rights activists wearing masks of five women’s rights activists formally detained in China after Women’s Day crackdown, hold placards with their names, to express their solidarity and demand their immediate release, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The line between dissidence and social activism grows ever murkier
It was supposed to be a celebration. This year marks Continue reading
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An Excerpt from “China’s Millennials: The Want Generation”
Eric Fish March 16, 2015
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Li Tingting is interviewed by members of the media during the Occupy Men’s Room demonstration in 2012.
On March 6, Chinese police detained a group of feminist activists ahead of International Women’s Day. Five of them, remain in criminal detention on suspicion of “picking quarrels and causing a disturbance,” Continue reading
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Re-education through labourL is a thing of the past, but criminal detention now takes its place
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Police increasingly use short stints in detention to silence those who may previously have been sent to re-education-through-labour camps. Photo: AP
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