From International Herald Tribune: The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s largest English-language daily, has abruptly announced the departure of two top editors, the latest in a series of personnel changes in the newsroom over the past year. The separate resignations of the paper’s editor and the managing editor, disclosed in an internal memo late […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Boston Herald: Twice in the past three years, Chinese President Hu Jintao has been greeted in Africa as the welcomed leader of a new economic and political power. But on a trip starting Tuesday, he also faces growing skepticism about China’s role on the continent. The itinerary for the eight-nation, 12-day tour […]
Read MoreFrom Laowiseass Blog: “You come here when you want the truth. You won’t get it from them,” a farmer in Hebei province once told me during a news interview to learn what China’s estimated 800 million people with rural residence permits thought of some recent government action. The farmer — a loose term that covers […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian: The football star Ronaldo is suing a Chinese medicine company which allegedly used a hastily shot photograph of him to advertise throat lozenges, reports said today. According to a series of Chinese papers, the Brazilian striker innocently posed holding a packet of Golden Throat Lozenges at a dinner in Beijing in September 2003 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is failing to make progress on improving and protecting the environment, according to a new Chinese government report. The research ranks China among the world’s worst nations – a position unchanged since 2004. After the US, China produces the most greenhouse gases in the world. The Chinese report, prepared by academics […]
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