From Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is likely to give priority to meeting energy saving targets at the annual session of parliament which opens next week, after the country failed to meet last year’s goals. China cut its energy per unit of gross domestic product, or energy intensity, by 1.23 percent last year, the National […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: A regulation mandating greater transparency in China’s government is moving forward in Beijing, but its contents are a secret. The regulation, eight years in the making, may do more to strengthen Beijing’s sway over its bureaucracy than to meet growing public demands for accountability in a country where information is […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Tens of millions of migrant workers who are helping to fuel China’s booming economy are being treated as an urban underclass, Amnesty International says. Despite some reforms, they are often denied rights to adequate health and education services and are vulnerable to exploitative working conditions. As many as 200 million people in […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s two fixed-line telephone operators have sealed a deal intended to limit competition and leave each in control of its core markets, according to a company official and local media. The deal between the parent companies of China Telecom and China Netcom highlights contradictions of interest inherent in the country’s state-controlled but […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is expanding its presence in China after agreeing to buy a 35% stake in discount store chain Trust-Mart. The terms of the deal, giving Wal-Mart an interest in 100 stores in 34 Chinese cities, were not revealed but analysts have said the business is worth $1bn. Should […]
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