Official estimates put the costs of reconstruction in quake-devastated areas in Sichuan and two neighboring provinces at about US$145.6 billion (RMB1 trillion), the South China Morning Post reported. The tentative plan formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission covers new houses and infrastructure for more than three million rural households, industrial reconstruction and the […]
Category: Politics & Society
An altercation between a British journalist and the Chinese police in Beijing led the International Olympic Committee on Thursday to urge China to let foreign reporters cover the Olympic Games freely, AP reported. IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies told reporters at a daily briefing that the IOC does not approve of "any attempt to hinder a journalist" […]
The Dalai Lama told lawmakers in Paris that China was continuing its crackdown in the Tibet region, and is not adhering to an "Olympic truce" between Tibetans and the government while the Games are under way, the Wall Street Journal reported. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader compared the current climate in Tibet to the Cultural […]
Three security officers were killed and a fourth was injured in an attack in Xinjiang, AFP reported. It was the third attack in Xinjiang in eight days. The attackers reportedly jumped off a vehicle as it passed through a checkpoint in the town of Yamanya, near Kashgar, and stabbed the officers. Thirty-one people have been […]
Olympics officials promised to boost security measures at tourist sites around Beijing after an American man was stabbed to death on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Todd Bachman, father-in-law to the coach of the US men’s volleyball team, was visiting the historic Drum Tower in the north of the city when the attack took […]