From The Wall Street Journal: China’s financial regulators late Friday announced measures aimed at offsetting inflation and other risks associated with its surging economy — and the one-way flow of money into the country the growth has encouraged. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange said that starting Feb. 1, its citizens will be permitted to […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Carrying its recent tradition of outspoken editorial writing into 2007, Southern Metropolis Daily today offered backhanded praise for the State Council’s “constructive” relationship with foreign media and said the same relationship should apply to domestic media. The editorial, again a case of jieti fahui (or using the opportunity afforded by an […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Yesterday’s Economic Information Daily, a Xinhua newspaper, took a look at some of the problems involved in Internet regulation, and blog regulation in particular. The information is familiar, but this article illustrates the regulatory thicket by listing off a surprising number of government departments that have their hooks in online media. An excerpt: […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Five Chinese telecommunications workers have been kidnapped by unidentified armed men in southern Nigeria. Gunmen seized the men near Port Harcourt in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where many similar abductions have taken place in recent months. The Chinese embassy in Abuja said it had appealed to the Nigerian authorities for help in […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The Karasu Bazaar, just 200 metres from Kyrgyzstan‘s heavily patrolled frontier with Uzbekistan, is a bustling warren of trading stalls fashioned out of metal shipping containers stacked one on top of another. The wares on offer range from bicycles to television sets and cosmetics. The haggling is done as it has been […]
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