Working conditions in China you'd not hear about in cHindu

cHindu praises cHina as much as artists praise the Mona Lisa (maybe this is not the right analogy).
However a spate of recent "incidents" in cHinese factories have caused concern there. Most recently in factories where the iPhone and the iPad were being manufactured. But this would not bother cHindu from being balanced and reporting the concerns. After all those are activities a Left-wing newspaper would do, being bothered with the working conditions etc.

The massive Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is known for assembling famous electronic goods like Apple's iPhone and iPad. But in recent months it has gained a darker image, as a place where distraught workers regularly throw themselves to their deaths. The latest fatality came on Tuesday morning, when a 19-year-old employee died in a fall in the company's Shenzhen compound, according to the state-run Xinhua news service.

The article details the pitiable conditions some of the workers are forced to work in,

Working conditions at Foxconn's factories have been under scrutiny for years. The attention was heightened in 2009 when 25-year-old employee Sun Danyong, who had been accused by management of losing an iPhone prototype, jumped to his death from his apartment in Shenzhen. Chinese press reports said Sun, who grew up in a poor village in Yunnan province and attended the top-rated Harbin Institute of Technology, might have been physically abused by company security guards searching for the missing device. The company pays most of its assembly-line workers in Shenzhen the city's minimum wage of $130 a month, and many work significant overtime hours in order to maximize their incomes.

Somewhere LiC is sipping cHampagne with his cHinese masters....

cHindu celebrates Pak banning computers

cHindu celebrates the 1 day anniversary of Pakistan banning computers. The ban extends to sites like Facebook and Youtube.

Social networking website Facebook has been blocked in Pakistan for the rest of the month following a court order in the wake of protests over an ‘Everybody Draw Mohammad Day' contest.

Paki-lover SV said, no one should bother about Facebook as long as cHindu's website is available.

Future of Indian bureaucracy acknowledges cHindu for guidance

Sad state of affairs when one of the toppers of the Civil services exam has to read cHindu for "knowledge".

But the most important factor in my preparations was thorough reading of The Hindu, which provided a proper insight into current affairs, national and international developments.

Somewhere LiC, SV and company are laughing their a$$ off.
Perhaps she should have said that she reads cHindu for comic relief and how to analyze national politics from news reported by a biased newspaper.

cHindu criticizes aggressive Chinese development

We have been critical of cHindu for being a Chinese party organ newsletter for long. However a recent article by Ananth Krishnan has subtly stated the price of Chinese development.
The context is the dichotomous development of China with the Western provinces left out of the overall growth of the Chinese economy and how China's attempting to get the people in those region involved in the new economy. What is different is Ananth's balanced coverage of the problems faced by the farmers in the development process.

But the rapid development push is bringing with it a host of new problems too. Large-scale infrastructure projects, which the government says are crucial to development, are dislocating thousands of farmers. Rising inflation is threatening to squeeze out an ever-growing section of the populace from the benefits of growth.

Is there a financial meltdown which is about to happen in China?

But rising incomes are only one part of the development story. The massive pumping in of money may have left impressive growth statistics, but it has also left local governments with spiralling debt. To make up for the shortfall, they are swallowing up farmers' lands with increasing vigour, looking to promote expansive real estate developments to attract big industry and Chengdu's rich. Central laws limiting the acquiring of farming land are often violated, with developments loosely characterised as being “in the public interest.”

Communism is alive and well, as a mask on capitalism.

cHindu back to the routine of beating up Israel

cHindu in its routine of "secular" and "minority" appeasement once again beats up on Israel. Without doing any research it opines,

The Tomb of the Patriarchs, also known as the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb, known as Masjid Bilal in Bethlehem, are heritage structures of importance to Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike. Notwithstanding the universally accepted interfaith character of these sites and their location in occupied Palestinian territory, Israel recently included them in its national heritage list, designating them for renovation as Jewish heritage sites. This cannot pass as a benign attempt to conserve old buildings.

They base this statement on,

Neither is it an isolated incident. Earlier, affected Palestinian families appealed to the United Nations to stop Israel and a Jewish organisation from constructing a museum over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

The NY Times exposes this as a fallacy,

Responding to the latest protests, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said in a statement: “The Museum of Tolerance project is not being built on the Mamilla Cemetery. It is being built on Jerusalem’s former municipal car park, where every day for nearly half a century, thousands of Muslims, Christians and Jews parked their cars without any protest whatsoever from the Muslim community.”

The problem with cHindu is that it always presents one side of the story without balance and in the process puts its shoe squarely in its pie hole.

Monkey can be a friend to fighting cats

China's friendship overtures to India and Pakistan reminds me of the old story of how the monkey tried to demonstrate its friendship to two cats.
The monkeys working in cHindu however conveniently deleted the source of this new propaganda. They said,

a leading State-run newspaper on Sunday said an ‘Asia century' will remain only a dream until the two giants treat each other with mutual trust and respect. China wants to build close ties with India like that of its “all-weather friendship” with Pakistan and if Beijing could become the “mutual friend of the Asian rivals” it could contribute more to regional peace and stability

India should tell the writer of the article to find a nice high cliff and jump off it at his/her convenience.
Such rubbish can only be published at your local Chennai based Chinese National Newspaper.

Excellent analysis by B.Raman on cHindu family saga

Shri B.Raman's analysis of the cHindu family saga nails the issue of media hypocrisy when it comes to transparency of operations and governance.

While they have every right to do so, many of the Indian media houses and journalists are themselves not role models of probity, intellectual integrity, transparency and selfless service in the cause of journalism. There are many instances of wrong-doings by media houses and journalists, but the public does not become aware of them because of the reluctance of our newspapers and journalists to report on each other, however grave their failings may be and even if knowledge of such failings be in public interest. Their reluctance to report on each other and their tendency to cover up failings inside their profession have been creating cynicism in growing sections of the public about the ethical standards---or the lack of them---in the media world.

Will LiC listen?

Uphold journalistic principles of truth-telling : N Ram

Exhorting his young audience to uphold journalistic principles of truth-telling, freedom and independence, justice, humaneness and social concern, Mr. Ram said that young journalists .....

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/13/stories/2010031366971500.htm

N Ram could have given examples.

Example of Truth telling : Reproducing Xinhua stories

Example of Independence : Going on a Chinese sponsored trip to Tibet and "reporting" on religious freedom