Results tagged “ondecember”

A 23 year-old Henan woman named Qiu Zi (秋子) may become the center of China's first appearance-related work discrimination case after accusing a company of firing her because her head is too big.

We told you a few days ago about a migrants school that was closed down. The AP has a report on it now, which covers most of the basic facts. However, earlier today we came across this Chinese article which has information not included in the English reports thus far:

We told you about Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff a few days ago. This site has proven to be the best source of updates on the search for the two well-known climbers. Unfortunately, none of the updates have included the news we are all hoping to hear. Here is the latest since Dec. 18:

Members of the Fangzhou Congregation, a house church in Beijing's Chaoyang district (they gather in apartments or other non-official sites to meet and worship) received some surprise visits last Sunday afternoon, January 15. At around 4:30 pm, two uniformed Beijing police officers and two plainclothes police (well, no one knows if they were really police) came in and said that they had to do some investigation of this congregation. The police accused the church of “disturbing the peace" (扰民）and illegal assembly, owing to the fact that the place where they had held the Sunday services had not been officially sanctioned. The usual type melee ensued, with accusations flying back and forth and tugs of war with video cameras. Why all the brouhaha over some small, insignificant house church? Because of the people in it, who are all notorious troublemakers. Yu Jie is an outspoken writer and intellectual that founded China's first PEN association, a pro-freedom of expression writer's group. Gao Zhisheng is a lawyer, and Wikipedia has this to say about him:

of those who want more from music.With one sweeping move and a startling invitation, Shanghai's music elite looks to silence its critics forever. On December 12th, they will rest their hopes that the Shanghai music scene might rise to greatness on the (very large) shoulders of one man. Who is this man? None other than the illustrious Michael Bolton.