Beijing, Beijing
Hello guys, just came back from Hong Kong and Beijing. What a good holiday, though it went too fast, as usual. :) Now I’m back home, should pick up writing again. Here are some photos I took of Beijing: beijing 2009 First of all, I’d like to talk about my Beijing trip. This is the second time I visit Beijing, the first one in 1990, right after the Tiananmen Massacre. As everyone can imagine, Beijing has changed from head to toe.... [Read More...]
Pop diva Anita Mui ‘deeply involved’ in saving June 4th dissidents: activist
Hong Kong’s former pop superstar Annita Mui (梅艷芳) was “involved deeply” into the “Project Siskin” (黃雀行動), a pro-democracy secret campaign that helped bring hundreds of student leaders of the Tiananmen Massacre and other Chinese dissidents to safety to western countries between 1989-1997, according to Hong Kong media reports. [Read More...] Read More →
Why can’t China’s future be left to the Chinese — not the west?
In a supposedly satiring article posted on CanWest sites today, I found a few lines that I’d like to highlight to our western friends. They were made by Wang Wei, chief spokesman for the Beijing Games and secretary general of the Beijing 2008 bid committee. His message was that for the last 30 years, China has been making reforms step by step, but it was naive to think that one of the world’s oldest civilizations, with a history of states... [Read More...]
China politics 101: central vs local governments
Another eye-opening incident happened during the earthquake relief work in the Sichuan area. (translation from here, here and other Chinese reports) On Thursday, thousands of quake victims surrounded a store in Luojiang county, Deyang, Sichuan, chanting anti-corruption slogans and questioning if someone have shipped relief materials to this store to sell for profits. Later, ralliers marched to the local police station for being suspiciously involved... [Read More...]
Local Taiwanese back anti-Chen campaign
North America’s first “Overseas Chinese Anti-Chen Shuibian Support Group” has been set up in Vancouver. Organizers want to lead an anti-Chen campaign in 50 cities in Canada and the US (story in Chinese). Organizer Jang Jingtao (鄭經濤), a Vancouver businessman, said the group will serve as a backup force for the front-line demonstrators in Taiwan. So far over 100 members have been recruited. Any overseas Chinese immigrants are... [Read More...]
