From CTA.ca: A group of women in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu are proving the old adage that goes ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’ Under the banner Women’s Rights Protection Investigation Centre (WRPIC), a growing team of women are cruising the streets of the Sichuan capital, on the hunt for wife-beaters […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Foreign investments into Chinese commercial banks, which began just a few years ago, have accelerated to a frantic pace in recent months, with record-shattering deals being announced seemingly almost weekly. Three of the four big state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) that acquired foreign funding – Bank of China (BOC), China Construction Bank (CCB), […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News At least 60 students at a military training school have been swept away during a typhoon in south-east China, state media has reported. The students went missing when two buildings were struck by a landslide in the coastal province of Fujian, Xinhua news agency said. Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered a […]
Read Morefrom AFP, via Taipei Times Hundreds of petitioners have been rounded up in Beijing as authorities sweep the capital to ensure trouble-free celebrations for the National Day holiday, dissidents and a rights group said yesterday. The week-long holiday beginning tomorrow is the most politically important holiday in China, marking the Oct. 1 founding of the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters China’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s second largest, continued to swell in August, a newspaper reported on Friday, suggesting little relief in upward pressure on the yuan since its revaluation in July. Hot money is still flowing strongly into the economy as a bet on further currency appreciation, the data, reported by the […]
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