From Financial Times: Shanghai’s new status as a weathervane for global markets proved to be short-lived after the stock market in mainland China rallied strongly yesterday in spite of sharp falls in the rest of Asia and Europe. The dramatic trading on Tuesday, when the mainland market plunged 9 per cent, had raised the prospect […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Planetark: China is planning to shut down small cement plants across the country over the next two years, as the latest step in its efforts to improve energy efficiency, combat pollution and upgrade its industry. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the powerful economic planning agency, said in a recent notice […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The wife of a blind Chinese activist who was jailed after he documented cases of forced abortions was reunited with her husband Thursday for a 10-minute visit, the first such meeting since he was detained a year ago. Yuan Weijing said she saw Chen Guangcheng at a prison in Shandong province, hugging him […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s parliament is to consider reforming a controversial law allowing police to send crime suspects to labour camps without trial, state media said. Reforming the “re-education through labour”...
Read MoreFrom Seattle Times: China’s population, the world’s largest, grew by almost 7 million people last year, according to an official report. China’s National Bureau of Statistics said in a report released late Wednesday that the country’s population was 1,314,480,000 at the end of 2006, an increase of 6.92 million people. The bureau said males accounted […]
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