Al-Jazeera takes another look at children, this time at the 150,000 homeless children that the government estimates roams the streets of China. Our hearts are drawn to Wang Pan who wandered the streets alone for a year after his mother was put on death row for murdering his father (while he watched), and Guo Jianhua who himself was once an absent father and is today the founder of an orphanage in Shaanxi province. Recently on......

The Shaanxi Province government confirmed yesterday that photographs of the highly endangered South China tiger taken by farmer Zhou Zhenglong were fake. Thirteen government officials have been punished (China Daily reports them being reprimanded, given demerit points or fired) for promoting the photographs in an effort to boost local tourism. Zhou was arrested for alleged fraud and ordered to return his award of 20,000 yuan for his "discovery" of the tiger. Shi Ying, deputy head......

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Here's an English news link:CHINESE police have rescued 33 intellectually disabled people forced to work at a building site by slave labour merchants after the apparent suicide of a detainee alerted authorities. The Chinese press offers some information. For example, the report above says that about 2/3 of the 33 people discovered were mentally disabled, and that they came from all over China. The ringmasters behind this operation go to train stations around China and......

Those of you that were fans of the gritty documentary realism of Li Yang's first feature, Blind Shaft, will probably take an intuitive liking to Blind Mountain for that very reason. Li Yang's use of regular folks--non-actors--always feels like a breath of fresh air, especially after watching movie/pop-star bloated films we've recently watched, such as Lust, Caution and King of California. The story: it's the early 1990s somewhere in bumblefuck northwestern China, and a Bai......