Malcolm Moore
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- May 21, 13
The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed police, an internal training document has revealed.
- May 20, 13
A four-year-old disabled Chinese boy was put in a prison for over three years because his parents were protesters, his foster father has claimed.
- May 19, 13
One of China's top universities is in talks to open a campus at the former site of the BBC in London in the latest push to extend Chinese influence across the globe.
- May 14, 13
China has attacked Japan after two incidents in as many days reopened old wounds over atrocities committed during the Second World War.
- May 14, 13
The former deputy police chief of Chongqing has been placed in detention on suspicion of taking £1.7 million in bribes, according to the Communist party's mouthpiece.
- May 13, 13
In its latest bid to contain the often riotous jumble of news and rumour on the Chinese internet, the Communist party has decided to bring the most high-profile and influential voices to heel.
- May 13, 13
No publisher has dared to bring the world's best-selling bodice-ripper to China; the censors would almost certainly ban it.
- May 12, 13
One of China's most senior politicians, who headed the National Energy Administration (NEA) until March, is under investigation, according to the state media.
- May 10, 13
It has taken more than 100 years to come to light, but the web of intrigue and corruption that toppled China's last emperor has finally been pieced together by a Chinese historian.
- May 09, 13
Zhang Yimou, China's most famous film director, is under investigation and could face a multi-million pound fine after it was claimed that he had broken the one-child policy to father seven children.
- May 06, 13
As he sat alongside Nick Clegg on a white leather armchair facing the Dalai Lama in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral last May, David Cameron knew he would face China’s wrath.
- May 06, 13
David Cameron has effectively been barred from visiting China because Beijing is so angry at the Prime Minister for meeting the Dalai Lama last year.
- May 03, 13
Shanghai's residents have joked for years that the city's hot pot restaurants substitute cat meat for lamb.
- May 03, 13
A haunted house in Wuhan, China, is being used by police for the psychological training of their prospective SWAT teams.
- May 03, 13
A Chinese state newspaper has lamented the "excessive scrutiny" of the internet age after sharp-eyed citizens began poking holes in the military's latest promises to stop driving luxury cars.
- May 03, 13
The head of a kindergarten in northern China has been arrested after she allegedly laced yoghurt with rat poison and left it for pupils from a rival school to eat.
- May 01, 13
North Korea has sentenced an American tour guide to 15 years in a labour camp for unspecified crimes against the state.
- May 01, 13
Faced with a strict edict to embrace austerity, China's officials have had to resort to ever more creative ways to lead the high life.
- Apr 28, 13
North Korea is preparing to carry out a "large-scale" military drill on its western coast, according to a South Korean report.
- Apr 27, 13
North Korea has announced the trial of an American citizen who was mysteriously arrested six months ago while leading a tour group into the country.
- Apr 26, 13
South Korea has said it will withdraw all of its workers from a shared industrial park, hours after North Korea rejected negotiations.
- Apr 23, 13
The brother-in-law of Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese activist, has gone on trial, in a case human rights activists claim is another part of the political vendetta against members of the Nobel laureate's family.
- Apr 22, 13
One of China's leading seismologists warned that a devastating earthquake would strike the exact area where more than 200 people have now lost their lives.
- Apr 22, 13
More than 2,000 aftershocks following a magnitude 7 earthquake in China have hampered rescue efforts in the mountains of Sichuan
- Apr 20, 13
A 7 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province may have killed or injured hundreds of people, according to an early estimate from the province's seismological bureau.
- Apr 14, 13
In any normal country, living only 30 miles away from such an unpredictable neighbour as North Korea might induce paranoia. Not in Seoul. Malcolm Moore reports.
- Apr 14, 13
North Korea has rebuffed an initial attempt to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, describing an offer of talks with South Korea as nothing more than a "cunning ploy" and an "empty shell".
- Apr 13, 13
As John Kerry arrives in Beijing, China continues to flout United Nations sanctions in order to prop up Kim Jong-un's regime, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
- Apr 13, 13
As PSY showed off the bottom-waggling dance to accompany his new Gentleman single, residents of Gangnam shared their excitement with Malcolm Moore.
- Apr 11, 13
North Korea has been skating close to a "dangerous line" with its near daily threats against the US and South Korea, Chuck Hagel, the defence secretary, has warned.
- Apr 10, 13
North Korea's two closest allies, China and Russia, have put pressure on Pyongyang to step back from launching a missile, the South Korean Foreign minister has said.
- Apr 09, 13
North Korea's army was deeply split over whether to accept the command of Kim Jong-un, a former officer has revealed, giving a possible clue to the tensions lying behind the young leader's calls to war.
- Apr 05, 13
North Korea has taken a further step to prepare for possible conflict, telling foreign embassies that their safety could not be guaranteed in the event of war.
- Apr 05, 13
North Korea told the Foreign office this morning that it should consider evacuating the British embassy in Pyongyang.
- Apr 05, 13
There are clear signs that China is losing patience with North Korea, America's former top diplomat in Asia has said.
- Apr 04, 13
North Korea's decision to pursue a nuclear programme has radically limited the chances of resuming the stalled six-party nuclear talks, Russia has warned.
- Apr 04, 13
North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, and may launch it in mid-April, according to the South Korean media.
- Apr 03, 13
The US was last night preparing to send advanced missile defences to its Pacific territory, as North Korea further ratcheted up its bellicose rhetoric by approving "merciless" nuclear strikes on America.
- Apr 03, 13
China's new first lady has dazzled the world, but who is the real Peng Liyuan?
- Apr 03, 13
China has intervened in the deepening Korea crisis by summoning the ambassadors of North and South Korea, as well as the United States, to warn tensions must be defused on the Korean peninsula.
- Apr 03, 13
North Korea has refused to allow almost 500 South Korean workers to cross its border into a shared industrial park, raising worries about the safety of the remaining workers on the site.
- Apr 02, 13
North Korea was warned by the head of the UN on Tuesday to stop using nuclear threats as a “game” after announcing it would again start making both plutonium and highly-enriched uranium for its nuclear weapons programme.
- Apr 02, 13
North Korea has said it will fully restart its Yongbyon nuclear complex, allowing it to create both plutonium and highly enriched uranium for its nuclear weapons programme.
- Apr 01, 13
Hundreds of South Koreans who work inside the North face being taken hostage instantly should war break out. Malcolm Moore speaks to the commuters defying Pyongyang's threats for the sake of the daily grind.
- Mar 31, 13
North Korea has vowed to strengthen its nuclear weapons, saying they were the "life of the nation" and declaring they would not be traded even for "billions of dollars".
- Mar 30, 13
The White House said today that it takes North Korea's latest sabre-rattling threats seriously while cautioning that Pyongyang has a long history of bellicose rhetoric.
- Mar 29, 13
North Korea and the United States are engaging in a dangerous game of brinkmanship that could spiral out of control Russia warned on Friday as Kim Jong-un vowed to "settle accounts" with Washington for threatening him with nuclear-capable stealth bombers.
- Mar 29, 13
The brother-in-law of Liu Xiaobo, China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been arrested in what human rights lawyers claim is another act of political vengeance against his family.
- Mar 26, 13
Nevermind a silver spoon, one Chinese mother has bought a $6.5 million (£4.3 million) flat in Manhattan for her toddler.
- Mar 25, 13
A fishmonger in the south of China was gutting a squid for a customer when his knife hit an eight-inch live bomb.
- Mar 24, 13
Xi Jinping, China's new president flew out of Moscow, pronouncing himself "deeply satisfied" with his first official trip overseas. But back home, the only topic of conversation was his elegant wife.
- Mar 22, 13
South west China's spectacular terraced rice paddies are under threat from an invasion of crayfish.
- Mar 18, 13
With his bouffant black hair, white short-sleeve shirt and endless boring speeches, he certainly seemed like a high-ranking Communist party official.
- Mar 17, 13
In his inaugural address as president, Xi Jinping laid out his vision of the "Chinese Dream", which would see the Middle Kingdom reclaim its role as the most important nation on earth.
- Mar 16, 13
China has completed its once-in-a-decade overhaul of its senior leaders by returning a woman to the top of its government.
- Mar 15, 13
More than half a billion birth control procedures, including at least 336 million abortions, have been performed in the name of the one-child policy, China's Health ministry revealed yesterday.
- Mar 15, 13
Li Keqiang, a 57-year-old law graduate and career bureaucrat has been named as China's new prime minister.
- Mar 13, 13
It is a battle that has divided East and West for centuries: Are chopsticks superior to the knife and fork? Now the debate may finally be decided, on environmental grounds.
- Mar 11, 13
Chinese security forces cut off power and phones, fired tear gas and stun grenades, and beat protestors in a southern village to try to end an 18-day rebellion.
- Mar 10, 13
China will abolish its powerful Railways ministry, which has operated for years as a state within the state, as part of a wide-ranging government revamp to tackle corruption.
- Mar 08, 13
China today called for "calm and restraint" from all sides to diffuse the tension on the Korean peninsula.
- Mar 07, 13
It was one of the most peculiar moments of the 20th century, when millions of Chinese workers started fervently worshipping mangoes in honour of Chairman Mao.
- Mar 07, 13
The deification of Chairman Mao went too far and China's revolutionary leader should now be now regarded as an "ordinary man", according to his sole grandson.
- Mar 04, 13
The grass actually is greener in the south-western Chinese city of Chengdu, but only because it has been dyed.
- Mar 03, 13
Malcolm Moore reports on a small Chinese village which has set up its own campaigning newspaper to counter official Communist party propaganda
- Mar 03, 13
The Communist party must improve its conduct or face extinction within a decade, Xi Jinping, China's next president, has warned, as he prepares for his inauguration.
- Feb 27, 13
An enterprising Chinese boss outsourced his 12-year-old daughter's homework assignment to nine of his employees.
- Feb 27, 13
More than 100 Chinese intellectuals have signed an open letter urging the country's parliament to ratify an international treaty on human rights.
- Feb 26, 13
At least 26,400 Chinese school students have been ordered to stop wearing their uniforms after tests flagged up a toxic dye.
- Feb 26, 13
Chinese politicians who try to tackle pollution are less likely to be promoted, a new report has found, offering one explanation for the country's blighted environment.
- Feb 25, 13
If your enemy has conquered the commanding heights, do not follow him but retreat, said Sun Tzu in the Art of War.
- Feb 25, 13
Chairman Mao once said that it was "glorious to scrimp, shameful to waste", and the edict has finally filtered down to the mess halls of the People's Liberation Army.
- Feb 25, 13
A Chinese official has been suspended after he went on the rampage in an airport at being told he could not board his plane.
- Feb 21, 13
Follow the developments and reaction as South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, appeared in court for the third day of his bail hearing.
- Feb 21, 13
All the developments and reaction after South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, appeared in court for the second day of his bail hearing.
- Feb 14, 13
A law graduate, entrepreneur, television presenter and model, 30-year-old Reeva Steenkamp was in the first flush of romance with South Africa’s most famous sportsman.
- Feb 12, 13
The cardinal who could become the first black pope said Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Church faces grave challenges in remaining relevant in the modern world even as he laid out a conservative vision of how to deal with society's "alternative lifestyles".
- Feb 08, 13
Some of Beijing's most sumptuous restaurants and hotels are facing an uncertain future after a new Communist Party austerity drive robbed them of their best customers.
- Jan 23, 13
A computer program designed to help the 225 million people booking a train ticket for the Chinese New Year holiday was so popular it crashed the system.
- Jan 22, 13
In perhaps the most desperate display of Chinese ingenuity yet, a 43-year-old man has been kept alive for 13 years by a home-made kidney dialysis machine.
- Jan 21, 13
As China's new leaders intensify a campaign to root out corruption, thousands of Communist party officials have been panicked into a fire sale of their illicit properties while billions of pounds have been smuggled overseas.
- Jan 20, 13
China's Communist Party has a new weapon in its battle to win the hearts and minds of teenagers: online games.
- Jan 17, 13
A senior Communist Party policy advisor has been forced to resign after his jilted lover posted a 120,000-word account of their affair online.
- Jan 16, 13
Methuselah himself might have struggled to win a place at one of Beijing's most popular old people's homes: the waiting list is currently 100 years long.
- Jan 14, 13
Beijing's residents are used to living with some of the worst smog in the world. But the latest spell of pollution has given rise to something unprecedented: a stream of accurate information and commentary about the problem in the state-run media.
- Jan 11, 13
Japanese and Chinese fighter jets faced off close to a disputed island chain, amid claims Tokyo is considering raising its military budget for the first time in a decade.
- Jan 10, 13
China has become the world's second largest movie market - and by the end of the decade it will be number one.
- Jan 08, 13
A Chinese millionaire has refused to give up her day job as a street sweeper for fear of losing her work ethic and worrying over her lazy children.
- Jan 07, 13
China will stop sending people to labour camps, the country's incoming security chief has said, after years of international criticism.
- Jan 04, 13
Chinese parents are lavishing more and more of their family wealth on their daughters at the weddings
- Jan 04, 13
A government official in South China responsible for applying the one-child policy has been found trafficking in children.
- Jan 04, 13
Promises from China's new leaders to allow more free speech suffered a double blow after the website of a leading magazine was shut down and a provincial censor replaced a New Year's message in a major newspaper.
- Jan 02, 13
Government officials across China have begun the new year with a long list of austerity measures designed to persuade the public that they are down-to-earth and hard-working.
- Jan 01, 13
A Chinese kitchen and bathroom tile magnate has launched his daughter into marriage with a dowry of more than one billion yuan (£100 million).
- Jan 01, 13
Kentucky Fried Chicken, which has become a staple food for young Chinese, is under investigation in Shanghai for containing high levels of antibiotics.
- Jan 01, 13
Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has given a surprise televised address for the New Year, calling for a "radical turnaround" in his country's moribund economy.
- Dec 30, 12
China will begin releasing air pollution readings every hour in 74 of its biggest cities from New Year's Day, after years of public pressure.
- Dec 26, 12
Diageo has opened a whisky clubhouse in Beijing to meet growing demand.
- Dec 18, 12
With the Shanghai Biennale generating fresh energy in this thriving city, the Telegraph’s China correspondent Malcolm Moore finds there's plenty to discover.
- Dec 11, 12
Millions of Chinese were able to search online for their top leaders and were even free to write criticism on Weibo, after finding that the country's censors had relaxed their grip.
- Dec 06, 12
The wife of China's Nobel Peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo has spoken out from under house arrest for the first time in more than two years, describing the Kafkaesque conditions she is being kept in.
- Dec 06, 12
A Chinese police chief who kept two sisters as his mistresses has become the fifth government official in six days to be embroiled in a sex scandal.
- Dec 05, 12
A promise by China's new leaders to tackle corruption has claimed its first major scalp: the deputy Communist party chief of Sichuan.
- Dec 05, 12
The world's tallest woman has died at the age of 40 in her village in China.
- Dec 04, 12
China's new leaders have promised a dramatic overhaul of how the Communist party behaves, responding to growing public criticism of imperious and lavishly rich officials.
- Dec 03, 12
For 6,000 Chinese pensioners it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: a visit to Beijing to proudly sing before the country's top leaders.
- Dec 02, 12
A five-floor home surrounded on all sides by a Chinese highway has finally been demolished, while its owner has disappeared.
- Nov 30, 12
The nephew of the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has been jailed for three years after assaulting local officials who were searching for his uncle.
- Nov 29, 12
A female doctor has been axed to death by a patient in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin in the latest act of violence in the country's hospitals.
- Nov 29, 12
When Wang Pinghe was 12 years old, his parents took him to hospital for an operation to his chest. He came out infected with HIV.
- Nov 29, 12
In China, perhaps even more than in Britain, a man's home is his castle.
- Nov 27, 12
An aspiring Chinese model has been given a suspended sentence of nine months in jail after posting a series of racy photographs of herself dressed as a policewoman.
- Nov 27, 12
Four more Tibetans have set themselves on fire, bringing the total to more than 20 this month, while an attempt by Chinese authorities to address the issue at a school in Qinghai resulted in a mass protest, according to overseas campaigners.
- Nov 26, 12
A scandalous set of sex tapes featuring Chinese government officials has lifted the lid on a blackmail ring in Chongqing under Bo Xilai, the city's disgraced Communist party boss.
- Nov 22, 12
China has redrawn the map printed in its passports to lay claim to almost all of the South China Sea, infuriating its southeast Asian neighbours.
- Nov 15, 12
Of all the ways to describe the seven men who will now lead China, Xinhua, the official mouthpiece of the Communist party, chose: "The new leaders are not ossified or conservative".
- Nov 15, 12
China's new leader: Chairman Mao once said that Xi Jinping's father was a man "tempered by fire".
- Nov 15, 12
Xi Jinping has stepped forward as China's new paramount leader with a remarkable speech that shattered Communist party convention.
- Nov 14, 12
The world’s second largest economy ushered in a new political era on Thursday morning, as China’s Communist Party unveiled its new commander-in-chief and elite ruling council.
- Nov 14, 12
For the Chinese state media, the past 10 years under the leadership of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao have been a "golden age".
- Nov 12, 12
Beautiful women prefer Communist party cadres, a senior delegate to the Party's once-in-a-decade leadership change has claimed.
- Nov 09, 12
China has revealed it is using a massive surveillance camera network to cover restive areas of Tibet and bring to an end a grisly wave of self-immolations.
- Nov 09, 12
As China’s Communist Party Congress got under way in earnest on Friday, question after question was raised among delegates about the rampant corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of the party. Malcolm Moore investigates.
- Nov 08, 12
It may be the defining political event of the decade, unveiling the men who will steer China to become the world's most powerful country. But there were more than a few stifled yawns inside the Great Hall of the People.
- Nov 08, 12
The Chinese Communist party began its once-in-a-decade handover of power by vowing that while its leaders are changing, there will be no change to its hardline policies.
- Nov 08, 12
The systemic corruption that has infected even the very top of the Communist party could "prove fatal", Hu Jintao, China's outgoing president, has warned.
- Nov 07, 12
The Communist party will begin its once-in-a-decade change of leaders today by insisting that its iron grip on power "suits China's national reality" on the eve of its 18th national congress.
- Nov 07, 12
The Communist party has learned an "extremely profound" lesson from the Bo Xilai scandal and will continue to root out corruption, a senior official has promised.
- Nov 06, 12
Neil Heywood, the British businessman murdered in China, regularly provided information on Bo Xilai, the powerful politician, to MI6 before he was killed, a new report has claimed.
- Nov 05, 12
Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, is reported to have asked for a formal investigation into his family's wealth after claims that it is as high as £1.67 billion.
- Nov 05, 12
This week’s Beijing power shuffle could be more important than the US race – but much of the process is a mystery, says Malcolm Moore
- Nov 01, 12
The Chinese Communist party has begun a final set of private meetings to prepare for its 18th Party Congress, at which a new generation of leaders will be unveiled for the first time in a decade.
- Nov 01, 12
China's factories showed signs of growth last month for the first time since the summer, raising more hopes that the slowdown in the world's second-largest economy has bottomed out.
- Oct 31, 12
China should immediately end its one-child policy and instead adopt a two-child scheme, a foundation with close links to the highest levels of the Communist party has said.
- Oct 28, 12
Relations of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, have denied amassing a multi-billion-dollar fortune and threatened legal action against The New York Times.
- Oct 26, 12
China has angrily denounced and censored a report that claimed the family of premier Wen Jiabao has amassed a $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) fortune.
- Oct 25, 12
The family of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, has controlled assets worth at least $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion), according to a detailed review of company and regulatory filings.
- Oct 23, 12
China has begun a wholesale reshuffle at the top of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) which will eventually see seven of the country's top ten generals replaced as the world's largest military continues its dramatic modernisation.
- Oct 22, 12
A Tibetan man in his 50s has set himself on fire inside the Labrang monastery, according to Free Tibet, the activist group.
- Oct 18, 12
The mausoleum of Tian Yi, the favourite eunuch of Ming Dynasty emperor Wanli, is now a memorial to those who sacrificed so much to serve, as Malcolm Moore reports.
- Oct 18, 12
One week after Mo Yan became the first Chinese author to win the Nobel prize, proud local officials rushed out a £70 million plan to transform his sleepy village into a "Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone".
- Oct 18, 12
China's economy grew by 7.4pc, year-on-year, in the third quarter, its slowest rate for three years.
- Oct 17, 12
Children as young as 14 have been working on the production lines of a Chinese factory that makes Nintendo consoles and Sony televisions, Foxconn, the world's largest electronic manufacturer, has admitted.
- Oct 15, 12
The son of the fallen Chinese leader Bo Xilai has denied that he has returned to China and said he has “no information” about his father’s trial.
- Oct 14, 12
The son of Bo Xilai, the fallen Communist party leader, has quietly returned to China and could play a key role in the "imminent" trial of his father, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
- Oct 12, 12
China now eats twice as much meat as the United States and must rein in its appetite or face a food crisis, one of the country's leading farm experts has warned.
- Oct 11, 12
China celebrated its "first" Nobel Prize winner after the author Mo Yan was awarded the 2012 medal for Literature.
- Oct 11, 12
More than 40 Chinese set themselves on fire in just two years in desperation at being evicted from their homes, a new report has revealed.
- Oct 09, 12
A high-speed railway that can run at nearly 220mph in temperatures of -40C has begun a trial operation in China, ahead of a launch at the end of the year.
- Oct 04, 12
A huge landslide has engulfed a primary school in a remote part of south west China, burying 18 children.
- Oct 03, 12
British officials are "urgently investigating" the suspected death of a British woman in Hong Kong's worst ferry crash for decades.
- Sep 30, 12
A Chinese tycoon is planning to revolutionise the way skyscrapers are built by bolting together the world's tallest building from factory-made parts in just seven months.
- Sep 30, 12
The son of disgraced Chinese Communist party leader Bo Xilai has broken his silence to say that lurid allegations levelled at his father, including corruption, complicity in murder, and multiple adulterous affairs, are "hard to believe".
- Sep 30, 12
Disgraced Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai, facing criminal trial, is said to have had many glamorous mistresses. But film star Zhang Ziyi is definite that she was never one of them.
- Sep 28, 12
Bo Xilai had the jet black dyed hair, ruthless pragmatism and unexplained wealth of other Communist party leaders, but in the end his arrogance and recklessness brought him down.
- Sep 28, 12
The first National Congress witnessed the founding of the Chinese Communist party in June 1921, in a grey-bricked house in Shanghai's French concession.
- Sep 28, 12
The Telegraph's Beijing correspondent Malcolm Moore answers all those questions surrounding the transfer of power in China
- Sep 28, 12
China's Communist party moved has moved to bring its annus horribilis to a close, announcing that one of its fallen heroes, Bo Xilai, would face criminal charges and simultaneously revealing the date when it will unveil a new generation of leaders.
- Sep 28, 12
As China announced the date for its once-in-a-decade change of leadership on Friday, Beijing was already moving into lock down.
- Sep 28, 12
Bo Xilai was a princeling of the Communist party, a man who believed he might one day be China's paramount leader. Now he faces spending decades behind bars. This is how his career unravelled.
- Sep 28, 12
Bo Xilai, who once believed he could become China's paramount leader, has been expelled from the Communist party amid charges of taking "massive bribes", playing a serious role in Neil Heywood's murder and of engaging in "inappropriate sexual relations".
- Sep 28, 12
On November 8 the most powerful decision making body in China, the Politburo Standing Committee, will select new leaders. Here we look at ten years of events in China under the leadership of Hu Jintao, President of China, and Wen Jiabao, The Premier.
- Sep 27, 12
A military conflict between China and Japan is looming, with neither power willing to back down over a disputed chain of islands, one of China's leading foreign policy experts has warned.
- Sep 27, 12
The gay daughter of one of the richest men in Hong Kong has laughed off her father's plan to offer nearly £40 million to any man who can charm her into a heterosexual marriage.
- Sep 25, 12
North Korea has announced the first official change of policy under Kim Jong-un: an extra year of schooling for all children.
- Sep 24, 12
Armed paramilitary police had to be called in to quell a 2,000-man brawl at the troubled Foxconn factory in Northern China that makes parts for Apple’s iPhone 5, among other products.
- Sep 24, 12
Wang Lijun, the Chinese police chief who blew the whistle on the murder of Neil Heywood, toppling one of China's most prominent political families, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- Sep 23, 12
The biggest event in Chinese politics for a decade, the moment that a new generation of leaders steps up to take the helm of the world's second superpower, but precisely when it happens is a closely guarded secret.
- Sep 21, 12
Three children were killed and 13 injured when a mental patient attacked a play group in China.
- Sep 19, 12
China appears set to prosecute Bo Xilai, the disgraced former top Communist party leader, on criminal charges over Neil Heywood's murder after publishing the fullest account yet of the days after the killing.
- Sep 19, 12
An angry crowd mobbed a car carrying the US ambassador to China at the height of protests against Japan’s claims over islands in the East China Sea.
- Sep 18, 12
Seven months after he disappeared into the darkness of the Communist party's internal investigations machine, Wang Lijun was back on centre stage on Tuesday, handsome and relaxed in a crisp white shirt.
- Sep 18, 12
China has warned it may take "further action" against Japan, as Chinese ships briefly entered waters around an island chain the two countries are quarrelling over.
- Sep 18, 12
Japan has stepped up Coast Guard patrols around the disputed Senkaku Islands as it awaits the arrival of a fleet of as many as 1,000 Chinese fishing boats.
- Sep 17, 12
Around 1,000 fishing boats have been mobilised by China to sail to an island chain controlled by Japan, as the quarrel between the two countries fuelled a seventh day of protests.
- Sep 16, 12
More than 50 Chinese cities saw mass protests against Japan on Sunday, with police in the southern city of Shenzhen using tear gas and water cannons to dispel an angry mob.
- Sep 15, 12
Large scale anti-Japan protests over disupted islands have spread throughout China, and the Japanese embassy in Beijing was pelted with rocks, eggs and bottles.
- Sep 15, 12
Xi Jinping, China's leader-in-waiting, has resurfaced after a two week-long vanishing act that led to rumours of illness from a bad back to a stroke, heart attack or worse.
- Sep 14, 12
Xi Jinping, China's president-in-waiting, who has not been seen in public for two weeks, was under intense pressure from within the Communist party before he disappeared, the Daily Telegraph has been told.
- Sep 14, 12
Six Chinese patrol ships have entered Japanese waters around a disputed island chain, while anti-Japan protests continued on the streets of Beijing.
- Sep 13, 12
China wheeled out an economic weapon on Thursday in its conflict with Japan over a disputed island chain, threatening to disrupt trade ties.
- Sep 12, 12
China's next leader has not been seen in public for 11 days because he suffered a heart attack, a source has told The Daily Telegraph.
- Sep 11, 12
China’s economy will soon stabilise, before continuing its “fast and stable” growth, said Wen Jiabao, the country’s premier.
- Sep 10, 12
The man who is likely to be unveiled at the pinnacle of China's Communist party in just a few weeks time has disappeared from public view for nine days.
- Sep 06, 12
A van driver who hit and killed a two-year-old girl in an accident that shamed China has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years for manslaughter.
- Sep 05, 12
The Chinese police chief who blew the whistle on Neil Heywood's murder, in the process toppling one of the Communist party's most powerful families, faces at least a decade in prison after charges were laid against him.
- Sep 05, 12
China warned on Wednesday that it would take all "necessary measures" to thwart a Japanese plan to buy a disputed chain of islands.
- Sep 05, 12
The first instinct of any bank robber is to head for the hills, but few stay there for as long as Chen Jianxue, a former deputy branch manager of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC).
- Sep 05, 12
On what may be her final trip to China as America's top diplomat, Hillary Clinton failed to find any agreement over Syria or the South China Sea and saw her meeting with the country's next president cancelled.
- Sep 04, 12
Hunger strikes and mass protests have greeted the beginning of the school year in Hong Kong over plans by Beijing to introduce classes which critics say will “brainwash” children with the Chinese Communist party’s version of history.
- Sep 03, 12
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- Aug 31, 12
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- Aug 30, 12
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- Aug 30, 12
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- Aug 30, 12
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- Aug 29, 12
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- Aug 29, 12
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- Aug 28, 12
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- Aug 27, 12
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- Aug 27, 12
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- Aug 26, 12
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- Aug 26, 12
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- Aug 24, 12
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- Aug 23, 12
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- Aug 21, 12
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- Aug 20, 12
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- Aug 20, 12
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- Aug 20, 12
Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was spared execution for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood after a court ruled that a "mental disorder" meant she was unable to "control her behaviour".
- Aug 19, 12
The wife of the disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been given a two-year suspended death sentence for the murder of Neil Heywood.
- Aug 17, 12
The former home of Pu Yi, China’s last emperor, has been demolished because it had become unsafe after recent floods, said officials in Beijing.
- Aug 17, 12
China has underlined its support for North Korea's efforts to rebuild its economy, after a meeting between Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, and Jang Song-Thaek, the powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
- Aug 16, 12
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- Aug 15, 12
Chinese activists landed on a disputed island in the East China Sea as a wave of anti-Japanese protests swept Asia on the 67th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
- Aug 15, 12
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- Aug 14, 12
After an eight-year manhunt across four provinces, involving tens of thousands of police officers, China's most-wanted criminal died nine miles from his mother's home.
- Aug 13, 12
The Chinese police chief who revealed the murder of Neil Heywood has already been secretly put on trial, a report claimed on Monday.
- Jul 27, 12
The trial of Bo Xilai's wife for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, will be fair and transparent, the Chinese state media has said.
- Jul 26, 12
The wife of one of China's most senior political leaders has been charged with murdering the British businessman Neil Heywood over his alleged threat to her son's "personal security", state media announced yesterday.
- Jul 26, 12
A Chinese man who became a symbol of the fraught relationship between doctors and their patients after he stabbed four hospital staff has been convicted of murder.
- Jul 25, 12
A freak storm that devastated Beijing, leaving dozens dead and motorways flooded, has not had any effect on the city's leadership, with the city's mayor and one of his deputies reshuffling before promotion.
- Jul 24, 12
A 46-year-old Chinese woman who angered local government officials with her repeated protests has claimed she was tied down and forcibly sterilised in an apparent act of revenge.
- Jul 24, 12
China founded a new city on Tuesday more than 200 miles from the mainland, in a bid to cement control over 800,000 squares miles of the South China Sea.
- Jul 23, 12
China has blacked out the first anniversary of the worst train crash in its history, with no memorial service for the 40 people who died and the media banned from mentioning the disaster.
- Jul 23, 12
The death toll from a freak storm in Beijing that caused £1 billion of damage is expected to rise, with long sections of one of the city's major motorways still under several feet of water.
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- What happened to the men who built China?By Malcolm MooreIn the late 1980s and early 1990s tens of millions of Chinese farmers set out to make their fortune on the coast.This first generation of migrant workers transformed China, building its skyscrapers, manning its factories and digging its mines.But where are they now, and did their dreams come true?
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Cheng Guorong sits stiffly and silently on his bed, staring into space. When he lights himself a cigarette, his hands shake.
Seven months ago, the 34-year-old was living rough in the eastern port of Ningbo, eating food out of bins and scraping tobacco out of butts to roll into new cigarettes.
In March, however, he briefly became one of the most famous people in China after a candid photograph of him was posted on the internet, wandering through the city with his cheekbones framed by cigarette smoke.
His striking looks won him the nicknames “Brother Sharp” or “China's Sexiest Tramp”. After his fame spread, local government officials tracked him down and rescued him.
He became such a sensation that several different families popped up claiming to be his relatives. His real family had to prove they knew him by revealing they were aware of a scar concealed underneath his matted hair.
Today, he is back in his hometown, living his life with mother and two sons in a village near Poyang Lake in Jiangxi province. His wife and father were killed in a car crash just two months before he became famous.
Meanwhile, the trauma of his years in Ningbo still haunts him, and he rarely speaks.
“He shows his affection for us through his actions,” his 22-year-old cousin, Cheng Si, says. “For example, he always serves us the best cuts of meat at the dining table with his chopsticks,” she adds.
She insists that he is not mentally-disturbed, and that a psychiatrist has seen him and claims that his condition is reversible. Nevertheless, Cheng now measures out his days in cigarettes, and whatever happened to him as a migrant worker on the coast seems to
have destroyed much of his spirit.Cheng was 16 years-old when he first went out to work in 1992. Although he is only in his mid-30s, that makes him, in terms of timing, part of the first generation of workers to leave China's countryside and seek their fortune on the coast.
The “first generation” of Chinese migrants are now aged anywhere from their mid-30s to their mid-60s, but share an ability to “chi ku” or eat bitterness that younger migrants are often said to lack. The second generation, according to the Chinese media, has grown up more fragile, with high expectations and an impatient urge to better themselves.
In terms of attitude, Cheng belongs squarely to the first generation. He seems strong and wiry, silent and self-contained. And when I interviewed him earlier this year, I suddenly realised that there must be many more like him, men who sweated and toiled to build modern China, but who had failed to find the dream they were seeking.
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The first migrant workers, in the Communist era, emerged in the early 1980s after Deng Xiaoping's government began to break up China's centrally-planned system.
Instead of collective farming, each family was given a quota to fill. When officials then stopped the minimum grain allowance, many farmers left their wives to work the land and began to move to urban areas to look for ways to boost their income.
The No.1 Document, issued in 1984 by the Communist party's Central Committee turned the trickle into a flood, allowing farmers the right to work and live in cities.
Despite not being able to claim any healthcare, pension or education in the cities, as many as 30,000 migrant workers flocked every day to Sichuan's railway stations by the end of the 1980s, all boarding trains to a better life somewhere else.
By 1989 around 30 million farmers had left to become migrant workers. The number doubled by 1993 and then doubled again by the end of 2006 to 131.8 million.
Life in the country was grim. Infant mortality in some rural areas was six times higher than in China's cities. Malnutrition was widespread and there was little hope of an education. According to the 1982 census, almost three-quarters of people in the countryside had not made it past primary school.
(Incidentally, the same census also revealed that a quarter of China's government officials also had no high school education and only six per cent had a college degree).
Unskilled, but hardworking, the migrants slotted into the thousands of construction sites and factories around south and east China and today migrants make up more than 70 per cent of China's builders, 68 per cent of its factory workers and 80 per cent of its coal miners. It is migrants who have transformed the country, churning out cheap goods for the West and erecting the skyscrapers that wow foreigners.
For almost all of them the dream is to make enough money to build a house or start a business in their hometown and to send back enough money to support their parents.
Across the Chinese countryside, it is easy to spot the ones who have been successful. Their large houses often stick out from the drab buildings surrounding them, secured with ornate gates and boasting an array of flat-screen televisions, computers and washing machines inside.
“The first generation of migrants was hardworking, tough and responsible,” says Dr Liu Kaiming, the founder of the Institute of Contemporary Observation in Shenzhen. “They were the backbones of their families and they built all the new houses in rural areas. There was little economic option for them. The annual income you can have by farming land is around 10,000 yuan and your profit from that is only a few thousand. In cities you can turn at least 10,000 yuan of profit.”
Chen Kaiqing, 52, and his family run the First Class Pavilion Noodle Shop in a back-alley housing compound in central Shanghai. "We came to Shanghai from Fujian in the 1990s after borrowing money from our family and friends to set up a dried mushroom stall," he says. After eight years, the family switched to running a restaurant, and are keen to stay in Shanghai.
"We never had big ambitions. We wanted to make a small amount of money and we did. We think we have fulfilled our dream, and we are satisfied with life here," he says. "A lot of our town folk also went out and some of them did very well, even managing to buy a house before the financial crisis struck," he adds.
Of course, not all returnees have been successful. Some have returned to find there were no customers left in their hometowns for their entrepreneurial businesses. “I know some who set up small businesses with their savings, but those businesses failed because everyone has now left the countryside for the cities. And their savings got eaten
away,” says Dr Liu. “By and by their wives could not stand it any more and left them facing a very dim future.”* * *
As they reach their late thirties, forties and fifties, the first generation of migrants is beginning to outlive its usefulness, unable to shoulder the same backbreaking labour that they once did.
Instead of moving up in the world, many of them have found themselves moving in the opposite direction.
“More than half of them have gone back home as they got too worn out to continue,” says Dr Liu. “Some of those also needed to go home to look after the older people in their families. The majority of these returnees are now working for small workshops in their home counties, some have started their own businesses and a very small number have gone back to farming. Some have moved in the opposite direction from the coasts, moving westwards to pick cotton in Xinjiang or digging coal in the north.”
He added: “But in their old age, they have no social welfare, no savings and no medical insurance. And they do not know how to fight for their rights. Most of them are doing dirty and consuming work that the new generation of migrants would turn their noses up at.”
The migrants who remain on the coast have seen themselves move inexorably down the value chain. For years they were a source of cheap labour for Chinese companies, now they are a source of cheap labour for municipalities, who often pay them below the minimum wage to sweep the streets or collect rubbish.
“The first generation migrants can still earn more in the cities than they would at home. After all, they do not have much education and they are not as forward and aggressive as the younger generation. Activists like me have approached them many times to help them fight for their rights, but they do not get engaged,” said Xiao Qinshan, a labour activist in Shenzhen.
“But the situation is that companies in Guangdong rarely hire anyone over 40 years old and foreign-invested companies rarely hire anyone over 35. So the first generation workers are doing menial jobs – they are cleaners or neighbourhood guards. And the cost of living is rising. In the old days, ten yuan would have lasted a while, but today
you can buy barely anything with it. There are tens of millions of these people in China's cities, but no one seems to care. No newspapers report about them, and they remain disadvantaged and invisible,” he says.Thirty-nine year-old Chen Zhihua, originally from Anhui province, works in Shanghai as a bao'an, or guard, for an apartment block.
“I left home in 1992 and worked on a building project in Shanghai for a while. Then I went to make shoe heels in a factory in Wenzhou. That was a good job – I made between 3,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan a month - but eventually I had a stomach illness and had to leave. Now I get 2,000 yuan a month with free accommodation and food. Considering my age and experience, this is a crappy job,” he says.
“There are not many options for us,” says He Jian, a 39-year-old construction worker from Anhui who is finishing up the restoration of Shanghai's Bund. “I would rather stay on the building site than work in a factory and farm work is just as physically-demanding as this,” he adds. “We rural folk always look older than our real age anyway.
In the last six months, the aftermath of the financial crisis, which has seen coastal factories desperate for workers to fill their production lines, has created new openings for migrants. Meanwhile, many employers have come to realise that the first generation of
workers is far tougher than the coddled generation that has replaced it. “Most of the workers on site are about my age. The young people can't stand the hard work,” says He.* * *
Meanwhile, the scars that have been left on this generation of Chinese workers by poor safety and chronic overwork are only just beginning to emerge.
Experts believe the number of first generation migrants who have suffered injuries while working on the coast could run into the millions. The government is working on better universal healthcare specifically to look after these people, but so far there are barely
any benefits available.“They have a rural cooperative medical service, which is of a low standard in terms of diagnosis and treatment, and which provides only 20 per cent to 30 per cent reimbursement of their bills. To get this service, you have to pay ten to 20 yuan a year in your home town,” explains He Wenjiong, head of the Social Security research unit at
Zhejiang university. “But in general you do not get treated for light illnesses and since you only get 30 per cent of your bills back, you still cannot afford to go to hospitals for serious problems.”Some of the first generation of migrants have workplace injury insurance, paid for by their employers, and companies generally cover the full cost of treatments that are incurred on site. But if the injuries only emerge later, such as lung disease or chronic
musculoskeletal pain, it remains near to impossible to get treatment, or to get employers to admit responsibility after the event.“Quite a large number of first generation workers are having difficulties with their livelihood because of injury and sickness,” says Mr Xiao. “Out of the 900,000 workplace injuries identified in China each year, the majority are sustained by migrants. We did a
survey in Hunan and Sichuan and we found at least three to four returnees in each village with injuries. Also, there are a lot of people with mental problems, such as depression, but no one is helping them either.”Zhang Qian, 42, from Shandong has moved up the coast from Shenzhen to Shanghai because of worries about his health. He now works as a security guard.
“I left the factory five or six years ago. It paid well, but it was too demanding, both mentally and physically. Long hours on the line and repetitious hand movements left me constantly worried about my health and I spent quite a lot of time not feeling quite right,” he says.
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Cheng Guorong has still not told his family exactly what horrors he suffered in Ningbo, but his relatives have pieced together some of the missing years.
"Our family has always suffered misfortune," his cousin says. "For many years we just thought he was dead."
Like many rural children at the time, Cheng dropped out of school in order to help his parents and his brother and sister on the land, chopping firewood and herding water buffalo. "He was a kind and considerate boy," his uncle says. "He was never aggressive at all, but very easy going. He had plenty of friends and he liked to play football and ride his bike."
When his production brigade in Boyang was dissolved, Cheng decided to go to Wenzhou to try his luck. He won jobs on construction sites and then moved to do similar work in Ningbo.
Initially, everything went according to plan. He married a woman from a nearby village in 1999 who bore him two sons in 2000 and 2001. He returned home each Chinese New Year for the holidays, sent back money and even bought himself a mobile phone, a rare luxury in those days – his family still had to walk to the grocer's in order to receive his
calls.But then things went wrong. In 2003, Cheng was robbed of his savings and, worried about his family's reaction if he stopped sending back money, he dropped out of contact. "His phone was always engaged," his cousin says.
It was common for first generation migrants to disappear for long periods - their families usually only saw them at Chinese New Year. When Cheng began to skip the Chinese New Year celebrations as well, his family began to search for him, but several attempts to track him down all failed.
Unable to dig himself out of his hole and earn money to send home to his family, Cheng decided to vanish, his Chinese dream dashed. Today, he has told his relatives that he wants to return to work, but it is clear that his body and mind are wrecked.
“The government has not come up with any solutions about how to help these people,” says Dr Liu. “If nothing happens, this could turn into a really serious issue in the coming five years or so. We desperately need a minimum social welfare and free medical care, and the ability to transfer these benefits between city and countryside. Migrants should also be allowed to assimilate, and have the right to dispose of their property – either renting it, selling it or simply transferring it. But so far, I have not seen any evidence of serious change.”
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