This is my kind of site:  Roddy (of the <a href="http://www.chinese-forums.com/">Chinese Language and Culture forums</a> and helpful <a href="http://members.axion.net/~pnh/China.html#Anchor for OL" title="Information about Travel in China">Oriental List</a> member) has set up <a href="http://www.newsinchinese.com/" title="A resource for those learning and studying Chinese, updated daily">News in Chinese</a>, basically a link weblog of Chinese news stories with one-line summaries in English.  (via <a href="http://brainysmurf.org" title="Adam in Tianjin">Brainysmurf</a>)

--Zhao Ziyang is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/international/asia/06ZHAO.html?pagewanted=print" title="New York Times: Purged Chinese Reformer Gravely Ill, Haunting His Successors">back in the news</a>:

<quote>Nonetheless, it remains possible that lower-level party officials, or students or intellectuals outside the party, may make Mr. Zhao's death an occasion to press for political liberalization. China's long tradition of paying homage to the dead makes it unseemly for the police to repress mourners, potentially opening a window for people to express grievances along with condolences.</quote>