Treatment by PRC towards Muslims in Xinjiang

All residents in China's largely Muslim region of Xinjiang must hand in their passports to local police stations for "examination and management", according to  Global Times, a state-funded newspaper .

"Anyone who needs the passport must apply to the police station," an anonymous police officer in Aksu prefecture told the paper on Thursday, adding that the policy had been implemented throughout Xinjiang.

The Global Times article followed numerous reports of tightened passport controls  in cities across the region.

Sumber : <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/china-xinjiang-residents-told-turn-passports-161124134129535.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/china-xinjiang-residents-told-turn-passports-161124134129535.html</a>

Woman killed when maintenance wrongly switch-off lift

Sumber : http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/06/two-chinese-workers-were-in-for-a-big-surprise-after-they-unsealed-an-elevator-one-month-after-cutting-off-its-power/

Two maintenance workers are under investigation in the death of a 43-year-old woman whose corpse was discovered in an elevator in China more than a month after the workers allegedly had cut off the elevator’s power.

The woman, whose name has not yet been publicly released, was found dead inside the elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an, according to the Associated Press. The two employees have been detained as authorities investigate why they improperly cut off power to the elevator allegedly without checking to see if anyone was inside.

The maintenance crew members had been called to inspect the malfunctioning elevator in a residential building in the Gaoling district of Xi’an on January 30, CNN reported. The elevator apparently had stopped prematurely between the building’s 10th and 11th floors, and after the two workers called down from the 11th floor to see whether or not anyone was inside, the elevator, they proceeded to cut off its power supply when they failed to hear an answer.

366 cities in PRC are not air-safe

Sumber : http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/366-china-s-cities-don-t-have-safe-air-greenpeace-n500261

Jan 20 2016, 10:31 am ET - 366 of China's Cities Don't Have Safe Air: Greenpeace

by Ed Flanagan

BEIJING — Air quality across China generally improved last year but remains a "major health hazard," according to Greenpeace.

A new report ranking 366 of the country's cities in terms of air pollution highlighted that there was still plenty of room for improvement.

"None of these 366 cities meet the World Health Organization's air quality standard," said Dong Liansai, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace. "That is to say 100 percent of Chinese cities studied fail to meet the WHO's standard."

Image : A woman wearing a mask rides her bicycle near Tiananmen Square during a "red alert" for pollution in Beijing on Dec. 21, 2015. WANG ZHAO / AFP - Getty Images file

Annual average levels of PM2.5 — particulate matter of 2.5 micrometers in diameter that can penetrate deep into the lungs — dropped by 10.3 percent last year compared with 2014 in the surveyed cities, Greenpeace said in its report released on Wednesday.

However, air quality in the Beijing area, Yangtze River Delta area and Pearl River Delta area showed significant improvement.

Despite such good news, the Greenpeace report showed China's national average for PM2.5 concentration was 50.2 parts per cubic meter — well in excess of WHO's guideline of an annual average of less than 10 micrograms.

"Air quality across China is still a major health hazard," Dong added.

Bandar hantu terbesar di dunia

Sumber : http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-worlds-largest-ghost-city-ordos-china-1541512511

Welcome to The World's Largest Ghost City: Ordos, China

Built for over a million people, the city of Ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of Inner Mongolia. Doomed to incompletion however, this futuristic metropolis now rises empty out of the deserts of northern China. Only 2% of its buildings were ever filled; the rest has largely been left to decay, abandoned mid-construction, earning Ordos the title of China's Ghost City.

Last year I travelled to Inner Mongolia for myself, to get a closer look at the bizarre, ghost metropolis of Ordos... and the experience, as I would discover, was far stranger than anything I could have prepared for.

This post originally appeared on Darmon Richter's The Bohemian Blog. It is republished here with Darmon's permission as the first installation of a two-part series. Check back tomorrow for part two, exploring abandoned buildings, tunnels, construction sites, and rooftops in the world's largest Ghost City.

THE GHOST TOWN OF INNER MONGOLIA

China's property market is in a strange place.

With a population reckoned at 1,351,000,000 and rising fast, the resultant boom in property development has led to scores of new-made millionaires and a rapidly growing elite class; at the same time however, analysts fear that this property bubble isset to burst. The country itself owes coming on for a trillion dollars in debt.

Meanwhile, a billion people are waking up to the possibilities of fast cars, smartphones, broadband Internet and credit cards.

Mall sangat besar tapi kosong

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China's Enormous Derelict Shopping Mall Does Not Bode Well For Humanity's Future.

Maddie Stone - Yesterday 2:00pm

China's Enormous Derelict Shopping Mall Does Not Bode Well For Humanity's Future

China is known for building ambitious infrastructure projects, and finding humans to populate them after the fact. Sometimes, it doesn’t go according to plan. This is one of those times.

Meet the Pentagonal Mart, a gargantuan, $200 million shopping complex inspired by the US Pentagon, which has the dubious honor of being the largest vacant building in Shanghai. According to the People’s Daily News, the 70-acre mall was completed in 2009 and remains virtually empty to this day, “mainly because of its location and confusing inner structures.” Hmm, minor planning details.

Only in small sections of the shopping mall/business center/human maze will a person occasionally be spotted pushing a lonely shopping cart down an aisle lit by endless fluorescent lights. Canned foods and packaged goods gleam untouched on shelves; museum pieces in an exhibition of superfluous development that needs no signage to explain itself.

Kerajaan China runtuhkan hospital

Sumber : http://www.bharian.com.my/node/112861

Ahad, 10 Januari 2016 @ 1:11 PM

Pihak berkuasa China runtuhkan hospital .

PIHAK berkuasa wilayah Henan meruntuhkan sebahagian bangunan hospital dan rumah mayat, sehingga memaksa doktor, jururawat dan pesakit melarikan diri. - Foto EPA BEIJING:

Pihak berkuasa wilayah Henan meruntuhkan sebahagian bangunan hospital dan rumah mayat, sehingga memaksa doktor, jururawat dan pesakit melarikan diri. Ia juga menyebabkan enam mayat yang diurus di rumah mayat itu tertimbus dalam runtuhan. Laporan agensi berita Xinhua menyatakan, pihak hospital berkenaan menuduh kerajaan tempatan mengarahkan kerja pemusnahan selepas gagal membuatkan ia bersetuju dengan projek pelebaran jalan. Hospital Universiti Zhengzhou di Henan berkata, kerja pemusnahan tidak dijangka pada pagi Khamis itu menimbus enam mayat yang disimpan di rumah mayat, menyebabkan kerosakan peralatan perubatan bernilai hampir 20 juta yuan (RM134 juta) dan mencederakan kakitangan hospital. "Menimbus mayat pesakit adalah tindakan tidak menghormati si mati. Saya tidak pernah bayangkan perkara seumpama ini akan berlaku," kata timbalan ketua propaganda hospital itu, Zhang Yuan. Pejabat penerangan kerajaan daerah Huiji berkata dalam kenyataan online pada Khamis bahawa mereka meminta hospital memusnahkan bilik pemeriksaan dan rumah mayat itu sendiri. Ia berkata, pekerja memastikan tiada siapa dalam bangunan sebelum kerja pemusnahan dijalankan. - Agensi

Disebabkan 'One Child Policy'

Sumber : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-to-grant-residence-rights-to-13-million-illegal-citizens/articleshow/50120644.cms

China to grant residence rights to 13 million 'illegal' citizens

BEIJING: China will give household registration permits to its unregistered citizens and make medical insurance coverage more equal, the government said on Wednesday, as it looks to overhaul systems often under fire for failing those people most in need.

The move on household registration - or "hukou" - will open access to basic rights such as schooling and healthcare for about 13 million people. Hukou are needed if a person wishes to marry, open a bank account, take out medical insurance and get access to basic education.

But many have been locked out of the system because their births flouted China's strict one-child policy, or they were orphans or homeless.

The Xinhua state news agency also said China had approved plans to merge its two medical insurance schemes for urban and rural residents, aiming to give more equal access to healthcare. Rural primary care currently lags far behind levels in major cities.

China says it offers health insurance to almost all of its near 1.4 billion people, but the schemes still often require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket, a major pressure on families, especially with major diseases such as cancer.

The ruling Chinese Communist Party announced in October it was reforming the family planning policy to allow couples to have two children after decades of the one-child policy, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy.

Xinhua put the number of unregistered people at around 13 million.

"It is a basic legal right for Chinese citizens to lawfully register for hukou. It's also a premise for citizens to participate in social affairs, enjoy rights and fulfil duties," state television CCTV reported, citing a statement released after a government meeting on reform.

Registration should take place irrespective of family planning and other policy limits, the statement said.