Archive for June, 2009

Waitress in fatal stabbing case walks free

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

IN A CASE that has gripped China and sparked a public outcry over women’s rights and official corruption, a karaoke bar waitress who stabbed to death a communist party cadre who tried to rape her walked free after a court said she acted in self-defence.
Deng Yujiao (21) was cleared of intentional injury by the Datong [...]

Great Leap Forward in time is hours too fast for China’s Uighurs

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Reduced to rubble in the name of progress

Monday, June 8th, 2009

‘It’s like missing out on the global joke’

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Huge police presence keeps Tiananmen Square quiet

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Materialism over idealism on anniversary of Tiananmen killings

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Review of Prisoner of the State

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Student leaders plagued by guilt and homesickness

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

‘But the doctor told me he was forbidden to save my son’

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

For a few heady days in May 1989 anything seemed possible

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.