From China in Transition Blog: The Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world features four figures from mainland China this year, one of the biggest pool of Chinese honorees in the past four years. Chinese president Hu Jintao is on the list for the third time since 2004, and […]
Read MoreFrom Swissinfo: The Swiss section of Amnesty International has launched a campaign for better respect for human rights in China, ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing. At a congress on Saturday in Locarno in southern Switzerland, Amnesty started collecting signatures for a petition to be handed in to the Chinese embassy in Bern […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: The price-to-rent ratio for second-hand houses in some of China’s big cities have gone over the international warning line, said the 2007 real estate blue paper released by China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The price-to-rent ratio, or the rent for one sq. m. of floor space divided by its sales price, is […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Beijing has begun to adopt a more assertive role in global climate change negotiations to head off the development of a regime which it worries could force it to cut emissions and scale back its economy. China’s aggressive posture was on display this week at a UN meeting on climate change in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A former mayor of Taipei has been nominated as the opposition candidate in Taiwan’s presidential election. But Ma Ying-jeou, who is seen as a front-runner in the 2008 poll, is also facing trial on corruption charges. He will run for the main opposition National Party (KMT), which ruled Taiwan from the 1940s […]
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