Although Premier Wen Jiabao memorized quite a few poetic phrases at the press conference, for many media outlets, the most memorable event of this year’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (两会) was the “Hongzhong pen snatching” incident.
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A "pigeon bomb" explosion -- suspected to be a terrorist attack -- occurred in Shenzhen on the morning of March 31st. A pigeon of unknown origins with a bomb died to it flew to the northwest corner of the News Center Building near Futian and suddenly exploded.
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More on Ai Weiwei's Sichuan earthquake project, his experience testifying in Tan Zuoren's case, and his thoughts on the retirement of Gao Zhisheng.
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The Chongqing Evening News runs the gutsiest news story we've read all year -- a frank retelling of the story of Google's exodus, hidden in plain sight through mythologizing and anthropomorphization.
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In case you haven't already heard, Google searches (on Google.com and Google.com.hk, according to reports on Twitter) now all return a reset connection, i.e., they have been blocked by China's net nanny.
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The NPC (National People’s Congress) kicks off again this year, and in preparation for that day, Premier Wen Jiabao went to the internet to answer questions from users. This has sparked a lot of discussion on the Chinese blogosphere, the following is a translation of blogger Han Song’s thoughts following the chat. It’s not...
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No, this isn’t about the gymnasts. The (Fake) Walls Come Tumbling Down Tiger Temple reported recently about one of the unintended aftereffects of Beijing’s rush to make itself pretty in the run-up to the Olympics in 2008: the fake walls constructed to make buildings look better in areas of the city expected to receive...
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Readers of ESWN may already be familiar with the name Wang Yahui, perhaps the first man ever to have been killed by a glass of water. The story in brief as translated by ESWN: According to the Lushan county public security bureau, the young man named Wang Yahui was taken away on suspicion of...
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The National Department of Statistics recently published a report on economic and social developments in 2009. Among the statistics found in the report are the past year’s housing pricing changes. In a year when people were literally lighting themselves on fire over housing issues and many complained of skyrocketing housing prices, the official verdict...
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In the wake of President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, and this CNN poll indicating most Americans think Tibet should be independent, the Dalai Lama went on Larry King Live. In keeping with that show’s tradition of internet straw polling, Larry asked viewers the same question CNN asked Americans last week: Should Tibet...
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