From International Herald Tribune via Chinadaily: Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Sunday that he was working with the Chinese government to bring his Grameen Bank lending system to rural China within a year. Yunus, at a news conference at the opening of the ITU Telecom World gathering, being held for the first […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: With its property prices fluctuating wildly, Shanghai has been designated as a testing ground for a more centralized, and hopefully more effective, vertical land administration system. This was one of a series of moves, taken last week by central government agencies, to further regulate the land and housing market. It follows public complaints […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Hank Paulson, US treasury secretary, will on Monday begin a series of discussions with industry leaders to hammer out the Bush administration’s policy towards China ahead of a high-level delegation to Beijing next week. The former head of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, will on Monday meet executives from manufacturing companies, including […]
Read MoreTwo kids sitting on a tractor in an unknown village, via blog.sohu.com
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Last month the International Energy Agency announced that China would probably surpass the United States as the world’s largest contributor of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 2009, more than a full decade earlier than anticipated. This forecast could spur China to adopt tough new energy and environmental standards, but it […]
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