From the San Jose Mercury News (link) A few weeks after receiving a lifesaving liver transplant, Pakistani businessman Shaukat Javed shuffled slowly around a specialty hospital ward chatting with fellow organ recipients. Patients from around the globe mingled in the fourth-floor ward of the First Tianjin Central Hospital, some of them with nurses bracing their […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press via the Washington Post (link) China’s official Internet industry association is calling on its members to help the government suppress material deemed subversive or immoral. “Unhealthy information” online has harmed Chinese children and threatens social stability, the Internet Society of China said in a statement. The 5-year-old group is the government-sanctioned […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Washington Post (link) Chinese President Hu Jintao must perform before a U.S. audience increasingly restive about China’s growing strength when he visits there next week on a trip crafted to reassure, not confront. President George W. Bush has said trade grievances will dominate when the two leaders meet in Washington on […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): For most of the two decades since the Chernobyl disaster, Russia’s nuclear construction industry languished as engineers labored to apply the lessons learned from the accident to improve reactor design and safety. Power stations that were already under construction in Russia at the time of the 1986 accident went […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): With determination and tact, China is steadily increasing its commercial, diplomatic and military influence, especially in the Asia-Pacific half of the globe. Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier, cheerfully accepted a roasted pig and whale’s tooth from his Fijian hosts last week to prove it. Hu Jintao, Chinese president, will make a […]
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