From The International Herald Tribune: China’s cancellation of a fence-mending visit by the Japanese foreign minister following Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to a shrine dedicated to Japan’s war dead highlights once again where the real threat to security in East Asia is emanating from. The fact that Beijing called off Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: BEIJING, Oct. 14 — 2006 is set to be celebrated as China-Italy year, and Italy’s Ambassador to China, Gabriele Menegatti, unveiled the major highlights of the year’s program at a press conference Thursday in Beijing. The curtain will rise on China-Italy year on January 20th, 2006, with an exhibition of Renaissance Art at […]
Read MoreFrom BBCnews: China’s Shenzhou VI has entered its second day in orbit, making it the country’s longest manned space flight so far. Astronauts Nie Haisheng, celebrating a birthday on Thursday, and Fei Junlong, carried out experiments on the craft’s stability, state media said. Experts were satisfied with the first day’s progress, Xinhua agency said. See […]
Read MoreFrom Danwai: Blocked for three years, Google’s Blogspot hosting service is now accessible to mainland users. And Google Cache is operational again as well. Filtering still seems to be taking place on a keyword level (cached copies of certain documents will load only partway before cutting off). And from comments around the net, it appears […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: JINHUA, China – All the tea in China is proving to be a lot of tea these days, as hillsides across central and southern China are bulldozed to make way for tea farms even as many young Chinese are losing interest in the beverage. China still has millions of tea […]
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