From Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: The Chinese government has sacked a senior Communist Party boss from the booming northern coastal province of Shandong for “serious discipline violation”, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Du Shicheng was Party chief for Qingdao city, a magnet for South Korean and Japanese investment and the venue for […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The lack of Chinese success for companies like Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon is down to ‘lazy corporate culture’ When it emerged earlier this week that eBay was preparing to close down its Chinese operation, few observers were wholly surprised. After several years of underperforming results in the auction giant’s business in the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via LA Times: MGA Entertainment Inc.’s Bratz dolls are made at a factory in southern China where workers are obliged to toil as many as 94 hours a week, labor rights advocates alleged in a report. The report by U.S.-based China Labor Watch and the National Labor Committee details allegations of harsh working […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Scrooge is not a familiar character in China, and “Bah, humbug” does not easily translate to Chinese. But a group of graduate students set off a spirited debate here Friday with a crotchety screed condemning Chinese people for their growing tendency to celebrate Christmas. The students, from such elite institutions as […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: About a mile from Tiananmen Square lies a pit from which a 28-story hotel will rise in a little more than a year. An army of construction workers lives and works at the open site, enduring plunging temperatures and freezing winds. Some work the midnight hours, while the rest of […]
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