Breaking News – Student attacked for supporting Tibetan cause
According to SOH sources, as a result of sentiments toward the suffering of the Tibetan people, Wang Qianyuan, a Chinese student studying in America’s Duke University, was smeared by Chinese official media as the “ugliest” international student and labelled a traitor by fellow Chinese people after he expressed that Tibetans have the rights to freedom. [...]
Breaking News – Beijing University student: calling for cross-cultural understanding and tolerance
After reading the Beijing University Three Corners BBS, an ethnic student has said that the sudden eruption of the Tibetan situation has intensified the debate on international cultural relationships.
Breaking News – Tibetan protest extends to Beijing, with support from university students
50 Tibetan students from the Beijing Central Cultural University, the highest level of ethnic education institution in China began a silent protest on March 17 inside the university campus. Their protest brings the demonstration of Tibetans to thecapital of China. Eyewitnesses have said that the protesting students have lit candles. There are public security officers [...]
Breaking News – A human rights campaigner’s persecution continues
Chinese human rights campaigner Prof. Guo was arrested by the authorities in the early hours of the 16th of March. Guo was questioned for three hours and released later that day. Family believes that this was done due to the letter that Prof Guo wrote to the communist party leader Hu Jintao, calling for a [...]
Breaking News – Experts Suggest New Regulation To Stop Corruption
Recently, a group of scholars and retired cadres have written to the National People’s Congress and the National Committee, urging them to establish a “Regulation of Announcement on the Declaration of Properties of Public Officers of County-Division Level and Above”, in order to resist the trend of rampant corruption.
Breaking News – Professor appeals to government for change
According to a news report on February 16th, a professor at Beijing University’s Institute of Economics, Shang Dewen sent a letter to Hu Jintao and other high-ranking CCP officials, calling for progressive political reform.
Breaking News – International Police crack counterfeit case in South China
With the assistance of China police, the World Health Organization and scientists from Oxford University, the International Police Organization (Interpol) uncovered counterfeit antimalarial production and sales in southern China, which contain toxins.
This case code-named “Jupiter Action” mainly investigated the case where a large number of “Tiger Ester Artesunate Tablets” that are counterfeit produces of “Gui [...]
Breaking News – Guo Quan sues Google and Yahoo
On the 2nd of February, renowned dissident and former associate professor of Nanjing Normal University Guo Quan announced his intention of suing Google and Yahoo, for censoring his name on the world wide web.
According to Guo, since the 14th of November 2007, when he published eight open letters to President Hu Jintao and other Chinese [...]
Breaking News – University students quit the Communist-affiliated organizations once realizing the nature of the CCP
The Global Quit CCP Centre revealed on 30th January, two university students who recently quit the CCP affiliated Youth and Pioneer League expressed that the Communist Party is too corrupt, and many Chinese people have come to recognize the CCP. However, due to the information blockade, people do not know the channel for quitting the [...]
Edge on China – Memories of Teaching in Shanghai
Should Australian academics here take off their ‘rose tinted glasses’ when courting student and university research exchanges?
Exactly who are the staff in Australian based Confucius Institutes?
As an exchange English teacher I worked only in that role in China, but always had an extra body in my classes watching and reporting on me. (It was a [...]
