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- China, Japan, S Korea agree to push forward Six-Party talks [China Daily] "China, Japan and South Korea agreed here Saturday to continue pushing forward the Six-Party talks aimed at realizing denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
- Tiananmen 20 years later: A survivor's story [AP] Twenty years after China's military crushed dissent around Tiananmen Square, the details are still fresh in Qi Zhiyong's mind. The acrid smell of tear gas. The people run down by tanks. The dizzying pain when a bullet tore through his left leg.
- Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines [NYTimes] "Under China’s authoritarian system, superiors reward subordinates for strict compliance with targets set from above, like reducing mine disasters... Work-safety officials in Beijing complain that even more than in other industries, death tolls from accidents at coal mines are often ratcheted down or not reported at all. That is because of the risky profits to be made — by businessmen and corrupt local officials — exploiting dangerous coal seams with temporary, unskilled workers in thousands of illegal mines."
- Profiting From China's Health-Care Reforms [Forbes] "As China embarks on an ambitious effort to make basic medical services more affordable and available to its 1.3 billion people, the health-care industry is in for a boom."
- Ministry of Finance imposes executive pay cap [Danwei] The Ministry of Finance has imposed a pay cap for executives of state-owned financial institutions. The Ministry announced yesterday that executives' pretax pay of 2008 should be "no more than 90% of the previous year's level"; for those firms whose performance declined during 2008, their executives should expect a big pay cut of 20%."
- Media scholar urges end to ban on cross-regional reporting [CMP] "In last month’s issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, I wrote about how the CCP’s ban on extra-territorial reporting, the practice of media from one region reporting sensitive news about other local governments, was placing extraordinary pressure on hard news in China... At a recent session of the Yanshan Forum in Beijing, Chinese media scholar... Zhang Jiang (展江) touched on these issues and others in a broader discussion of China’s unique brand of watchdog journalism, what is best and most accurately expressed as “supervision by public opinion,” or yulun jiandu (舆论监督)."
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