• The BBC, long blocked by Chinese web censors, appears to be following in Google's footsteps regarding the internet in China. Shanghaiist finds foreign news organizations self censoring more disturbing than search engines. Who is next?
• Wu Xianghu, the deputy editor of the Taizhou Evening News, "died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work." He was 41. ESWN has photos of the attack. Taizhou is in Zhejiang province.
• Another way of looking at coal mine accident stats in China.

The environment and sustainability have become key issues in China as it tries to find meaning and reason in a society with unprecedented economic growth. Launched by Hu Jintao earlier this year, the concept of "harmonious society" is seen by many as a call to balance the effects China's ravenous agricultural and manufacturing sectors with a fragile environment. more ›