April 6, 2004 “At 63, Huang Zhenyun says the newly-passed amendment to the Constitution is the key to keeping his house from being torn down — at least for a while…Huang said he held up a copy of the document as he stood at the gate of his house on the early morning of April […]
Read MoreApril 5, 2004 “Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party chief who became a potent symbol of thwarted political reform after he was purged during the crackdown on dissent in 1989, is critically ill and is being kept alive by a respirator at his home in Beijing, people close to Mr. Zhao’s family said Monday. Analysts […]
Read MoreApril 5, 2004 “U.S. tech companies are rapidly expanding their partnerships with China. They are eyeing the nation’s huge domestic market and tapping its cheap labor for skilled manufacturing and, increasingly, the brainpower for creating tech innovations. At the same time, the American tech companies are looking warily at an emerging rival.” For the full […]
Read MoreApril 4, 2004 In a pair of related announcements, China, Japan and South Korea have announced that they will collaborate on developing their own open-source alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and on a 4G cell phone standard “expected to enable throughput of 100 megabits per second–equivalent to the speed of fiber-optic communications…to allow users […]
Read MoreApril 2, 2004 Reflecting sensitivity to the issue of animal cruelty and how it might tarnish China’s image abroad, the Beijing City Council reportedly intervened to scrap plans for Spanish-style bull fights in a privately owned arena, newly constructed for that purpose. According to the BBC, the move also represents a victory for the emerging […]
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