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Tag Archives: corruption
I was just reading in the BBC Chinese ab …
I was just reading in the BBC Chinese about a recently released report from the Chinese govt’s national audit office, whose job it is to figure out where corrupt officials are stashing their ill gained loot. Here’s the article in … Continue reading
Stuff about Shanghai cop killer Yang Jia （杨佳）
Some interesting statements during the court proceedings: 杨佳当庭直言：我是无罪的，是他们违法，有罪的是他们。（指警察，发人深思啊） [Yang Jia: I am innocent, is they who are guilty of breaking the law.] 法官问：你有什么补充意见？杨佳说：“这些警察之所以敢这样，都是因为他们的背后有你们”。 [Judge asks: do you have any thing to add to your statement? Yang Jia: “the reason the … Continue reading
Chinese reporter: why I quit being a journalist
This too is a thread from Xici, and in it a reporter talks about the various things that he/she has seen or done in a ten year career as a journalist in China. 说不清我为什么要告别记者生涯，尽管在几年前我已厌倦了这份工作，但真正咬牙下定决心离开，还是年初的事。我揣着记者证，我的社会身份是“记者”，可是这些年来我何尝有机会做过真正的记者？两千多年前太史公秉笔直书不讳君恶，我们今天都做不到。不能真实地记录，不能自由地表达，我还算什么记者？无非是为稻粱谋而已！这样的“记者”生涯，为什么不向它说再见？ [rough trans: I left this work … Continue reading
China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology
Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in … Continue reading
Old man kicks Chen Shuibian in the ass, Chinese people rejoice
Well, I was about to write “old” until I realized that my parents are about the same age. Shu Anquan, 64, waited outside the Taipei courthouse where former Taiwanese prez Chen Shuibian took the stand as the defendant. Shu comes … Continue reading
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Sichuan officials punished for earthquake relief related issues
Just saw this on Sina. In the city of Ya’An in Sichuan has “fired” three township level party secretaries and given serious warnings to several other cadres. This was over irregularities in how the relief efforts were coordinated and handled; … Continue reading
Anhui “white house” official linked with mysterious death is suspended from job
See that building above? That’s what people in the Yingquan district of Fuyang City in Anhui province sarcastically call the “white house” and is the building wher ethe local government does its work. The local party secretary is named Zhang … Continue reading
Southern Weekend interview with Sichuan education official Lin Qiang
This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and … Continue reading
Long Yongtu’s comments get pwned on the internet
????????????? ????????? | ??5???????? via kwout Long Yongtu, former official, got a lot of flack for making remarks at a recent conference saying that the government ought to take a harder stance towards so called “diao min”, meaning troublesome people. … Continue reading →