China : News
A rising proportion of college undergraduates and short term study students in the Chinese student population in the U.S. - Feb 3, 2010 - 9:00:08 AM
PRC website with information from the Shijie Ribao, a Chinese language newspaper in the U.S. on the increasing numbers of Chinese who have studied abroad and are now returning to China.  During 2009,  80,000 Chinese students returned to China from the US.  Quoting the Education Attache Chen Zhunmin at the PRC Consulate in LA, U.S. Embassy Beijing and the U.S. Consulates in China are giving visa to nearly all the students who are accepted by U.S. schools.

China : Comment
Reform Angst Leads 60 Percent of Consumers to Oppose Abolition of the Age-Old Salt Monopoly - Feb 1, 2010 - 12:30:19 PM
In December 2009, a major debate about reforming the salt monopoly system started, reaching as far up as the administration and the salt industry, and as far down as the general consumer. It originated in a statement made at a meeting on Salt Reform by Chen Guowei, a Supervisor on the Enterprise Supervision board of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC): “To break the state’s monopoly, reform of China’s salt monopoly system needs to be sped up. But China Salt Industry Corporation is strongly opposed to this market reform.” In his speech, Chen Guowei directly China Salt’s monopoly over the production and circulation of salt.

China : Comment
From Ruling by Rhetoric to Ruling by Secret Police - Jan 27, 2010 - 5:02:39 AM
I was left rather shocked by the many stories in the current (21 January) issue of Nanfang Zhoumo [Southern Weekend] that reflect a prosperous China's many long and short-term worries.

Coverage of the disaster in Haiti was accompanied not only by “Haiti’s sad history”, but also by stories of Chinese illegal immigrants to the US via Haiti, dubbed “human snakes.” The experiences of the Haitian people and Chinese illegal immigrants are thought-provoking and show how the man-made disasters of greed and evil are the real reasons bringing about a hell on earth.

China : News
Citizen Journalist Sun Hai Yang Received Twenty-One-Month Sentence - Jan 26, 2010 - 11:12:18 AM

Boxun Reported

Shen Yang---According to several inside sources, citizen journalist Sun Hai Yang has been taken into custody in January, 2009, and might be release in October,2010. Specfic accusations against Sun are still unknow.

US : News
Editor's personal email account hacked in the same way as foreign reporters in Beijing - Jan 25, 2010 - 8:46:14 PM

Boxun's editor - Watson Meng's two email accounts (XXX@Gmail.com) were hacked. Watson found two gmail accounts have Forward enabled, emails forwarded to erdweew@gmail.com 

Last week, foreign reporters' gmail accounts were reported hacked in Beijing. Their accounts also forwarded to a hacker's email address.

China : Comment
Google’s Dilemma: Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Jan 25, 2010 - 8:30:25 AM
On 17 January, when many people thought that Google was irretrievably on its way out of China, reports appeared on the Internet of a possible turnaround. [1] Appearing simultaneously with it were an interview on “Voice of America” with the US ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman: “We should focus on the overall situation in Sino-US relations” [2], and “Internet users' sentiment reversed—70% of Chinese believe that Google was politically manipulated.”

China : News
Farmers tried to protect their land: bloody crash down - Jan 24, 2010 - 1:16:53 PM
JiangJia Cun, Guilin, GuangXi: Janurary 19, 2010, farmers tried to protect their land, but hundreds of police attacked them with dogs, gas, dozens of villagers injured. After the tragedy, police continued to arrest those injured farmers from home and hospital. This incident has been covered up totally in China

China : Special
Haerbin Petitioner Has Spent 12 years Fighting For Property Right - Jan 22, 2010 - 11:19:40 AM

Boxun Reported Haerbin---

Zhao's property, a piece of land he planned to invest for business purposes, was accroached, and Zhao struggled fighting against the illegal action. However, 12 years of petition journey has given Zhao Jing Zhou 12 invalid verdicts.

China : Comment
China's Housing Crisis - Jan 19, 2010 - 6:13:13 AM
One of the hottest television dramas currently on air in China is called ‘Woju’, translated as snail home, alluding to the tremendous burden of carrying the dream of home ownership in China. The series has sparked a nationwide debate on the housing affordability issue. Newspaper editorials, online discussion forums and gossip around the tea time are all about with skyrocketing house prices and their impact on social stability, especially regarding the younger generations.

China : Comment
Implications of the Attorney Li Zhuang Case - Jan 19, 2010 - 6:08:14 AM
The implications of last week’s sentencing of Li Zhuang were quite profound. In terms of intellectual-led public opinion, Bo Xilai won the case but in moral terms lost. He clearly manipulated the case, unscrupulously framing Li, and his contempt for the concept of the rule of law in particular outraged many legal and otherwise knowledgeable people, damaging his liberal image, and doing his political future no good.