From The Globe and Mail : The Chinese government is desperately trying to control the problem. It executes more officials for corruption offences than the rest of the world combined. At least 25 officials have been given the death penalty for accepting bribes or kickbacks in the past four years. More than 846,000 Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Chinese are coming. More than 20 years after China reopened to the world for business, the world’s most populous nation has stepped onto the world’s high-tech stage with a string of recent acquisitions and moves into Western Europe and North America. The multibillion-dollar global expansion marks a coming of age for a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: China wants to take the Olympic torch to the top of the world and across Taiwan on its route to the 2008 Beijing Games, one of the top organizers said on Thursday. Liu Jingmin, executive vice president of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games, told Reuters he hoped the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: Most of the Yellow River, the second-longest in China and the cradle of early Chinese civilization, is so polluted it is not safe for drinking or swimming, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. Nearly three-quarters of the river, which supplies water to 12 percent of China’s 1.3 billion people and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua,via China Daily: Experts estimate that China will consume 2.2 billion tons of coal by 2010, causing a shortage of 330 million tons, Wang Xianzheng, vice director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said Tuesday at an annual exposition… He said China’s current coal production capacity, with all types of coal mines included, […]
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