Friday, August 14, 2015

Access to Information (信息公开)

天津8.12大爆炸55死701傷 津警:網傳只峰背景是謠言 (Tianjin explosion: 55 dead, 701 injured, Tianjin police deny info that Ruihai Int’l Logistics’ legal representative Zhi Feng is son of Tianjin vice mayor)
South China Morning Post, August 14, 2015
http://www.nanzao.com/tc/national/14f2a168c945061/tian-jin-8-12-da-bao-zha-50-si-701-shang-wu-fa-que-ding-wei-hua-pin-zhong-lei-shu-liang

Related:
Minitrue: media directives on Tianjin port explosions
China Digital Times, August 13, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/minitrue-explosions-in-tanggu-open-economic-zone-tianjin/

Inferno: The new rules of disaster management in authoritarian countries
The Economist, August 15, 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21660982-new-rules-disaster-management-authoritarian-countries-inferno-tianjin

The Tianjin explosion, as chronicled on Chinese social media
The Diplomat, August 13, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/the-tianjin-explosion-as-chronicled-on-chinese-social-media/

Netizen voices: volunteer 50 cent standards slipping
China Digital Times, August 13, 2015
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/netizen-voices-declining-standards-in-volunteer-fifty-centism/

Mapping the invisible scourge
The Economist, August 15, 2015
http://www.economist.com/news/china/21661053-new-study-suggests-air-pollution-even-worse-thought-mapping-invisible-scourge