From The Wall Street Journal: Kunming Pharmaceutical Corp. of China makes a potent drug to fight malaria, a disease that kills more than a million people a year. Business is brisk. Yet the World Health Organization calls the sale of the drug a major threat to global health. It is demanding that Kunming and makers […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: Taiwan has tested missiles that are capable of hitting Shanghai or Hong Kong, a newspaper reported Tuesday, amid renewed tensions between the island and China triggered by strong pro-independence remarks by Taiwan’s leader. President Chen Shui-bian attended the secret test of the Hsiungfeng 2E missiles early last month, the United Daily News reported, […]
Read MoreHere are a few interesting proposals the representatives are advocating at this year’s NPC and CPPCC. Huo Yuping, a member of China Academy of Sciences, said the threat of “global warming” is merely fictional. Yan Zhao Metropolitan News reported Huo blamed a small group of people from the press and the government sensationalizing the topic […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The speech by Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, and the documents released to coincide with Monday’s opening of the annual National People’s Congress were packed with old-style communist rhetoric and the sorts of facts and figures beloved by leaders schooled in central planning. Pore over the policy papers and you find that the […]
Read MoreFrom The LA Times: Wang Xingzui is trying to take the go out of his gongo. Step by methodical step, the executive director of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation is weaning it from the things that have made his group an oxymoron: a government-organized nongovernmental organization, or gongo. The foundation, one of China’s leading […]
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