From AP via San Francisco Examiner: China’s military spending will jump 17.8 percent this year, the spokesman for the National People’s Congress said Sunday. Jiang Enzhu told a news conference on the eve of the annual meeting of China’s legislature that military spending would hit nearly $45 billion in 2007, an increase of $6.8 billion […]
Read MoreBelow is a partial translation of an article written by Pan Xiaotao(ÊΩòÂ∞èÊ∂õ), a political commentator from Hong Kong, on Asia Times Online After the Chinese New Year, China’s Pearl River Delta area will suffer a “migrant worker shortage” again. Factories in the area will not be able to recruit enough ideal workers, and the situation […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Qin Fangyi’s religious moment came after a walk in the pouring rain two years ago to a nunnery for a ceremony that her mother had urged her to attend. Qin’s mother converted to Buddhism two years earlier despite her husband’s open hostility to religion, and quietly nudged her daughter into having […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: In China huge cities are springing up and city jobs are being created for more than 500 million agricultural workers who are no longer needed in the fields. One village in south west China has been designated as the new capital of remote Wuxi county. But progress has not been as smooth […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Channel News Asia: China on Saturday began its annual parliamentary session with calls to address a widening wealth gap, environmental degradation and other ills attending its economic growth. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a rubber-stamp advisory body, opened its 12-day session on Saturday afternoon at the Great Hall of the […]
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