From China Daily: China’s Nanjing Auto and Italy’s Fiat have decided to breathe new life into their partnership by respectively investing an additional three billion yuan (389.6 million U.S. dollars) in their joint venture Nanjing Fiat. There had been reports that Fiat was likely to end its partnership with Nanjing Auto as the Chinese company […]
Read MoreThe NLF continues its efforts to popularize football in China by funding children’s programs and by advertising to young, urban middle class men. From the International Herald Tribune: Basketball has been played for 100...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Erosion could wipe away more than 61,600 square kilometers of land by 2010 as China gears up economic development, said Vice Water Resources Minister E Jingping on Friday. The figure represents an increase of 11.5 percent from the amount lost from 2001 to 2005, he added. E said the situation had deteriorated […]
Read MoreFrom the Hindu: China will send two cuddly giant pandas to Spain as “goodwill emissaries” and for research. A seven-year-old male “Bing Xing” weighing 140 kg and a four-year-old female “Hua Zui Ba” weighing 93 kg would be sent to the Madrid zoo, head of the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base, Zhang Zhihe said. […]
Read MorePope Benedict XVI has written a letter to the Chinese government that offers reconciliation, with hopes to end the persecuation of underground churches. From the New York Times: In an extraordinary open letter directed to Chinese Catholics and released Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the suffering experienced by Catholics under Communist rule but also concluded […]
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