Small, nimble, private companies should be a ray of hope for the Chinese economy—but they’re going through tough times, according to entrepreneurs in China.
China’s web authorities say the largest Chinese-language Internet portal is not diligently filtering “illegal” content. Netizens scoff the official speak.
While the well-known Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong is facing five years in prison for his political activism, an associate of his — the wealthy Chinese businessman Wang Gongquan — who was accused of the same crimes was allowed out on bail because he confessed.
Downtown Beijing landlords squeezed 25 college students into a cramped, fetid apartment, charging each person $130 (800 yuan) for a bunk bed, Chinese state-run media found on Monday.
Chinese women’s rights activist Ye Haiyan was beaten at her home and then detained for several hours at the local police station after she tried to raise public awareness of child sexual abuse.
A group of nearly a dozen Chinese human rights lawyers who attempted to investigate an extralegal “brainwashing center” in the southeast of the country were violently set upon by guards on May 13.
Chinese online media company Sina says it has 500 million members on its Twitter-like platform called Weibo. But a recent report suggests the numbers include many fraudulent “zombie” accounts, meant to pad the books.
A photo that shows a Chinese kindergarten teacher holding a small boy by the ears, causing the child to scream in pain, triggered a storm of criticism among netizens after it was uploaded to a popular Chinese social media website on Wednesday.
The Chinese regime has become more restrictive in controlling what its citizens see on the Internet in the past year and commits the most violations of user’s rights in the world, a new report from Freedom House has found.