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From Reuters: China announced on Monday its tenth official human case of bird flu infection after a 29-year old woman from the west of the country was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus. A notice on the health ministry’s Web site said the woman ran a shop in a farmgoods market in Jinhua town in Sichuan […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The three-year journey that inspired first Stick Out Your Tongue and then Red Dust was taken 20 years ago, and the book itself was banned in China in 1987. In Lhasa, when he arrived, the Chinese were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the “liberation” of Tibet, a miserable festival of flags and […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: In the U.S., China’s control of the Internet — and the role of American companies in helping the Chinese government censor it — is once again a hot-button issue. Following the news that Microsoft (MSFT), at Beijing’s request, axed the writings of a Chinese blogger, critics are up in arms. Congressional hearings […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Land grabs by officials eager to cash in on China’s booming economy are provoking mass unrest in the countryside and amount to a “historic error” that could threaten national stability, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said in comments published Friday. His message underscored the increasing urgency of the government’s campaign to […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: When Angela Feruglio, an advertising researcher, sat in last year on focus groups of young Chinese in Shanghai and Guangzhou as they were quizzed about consumer electronics, it was immediately clear that cities could be divided by desire. In Shanghai, Feruglio said, all the participants wanted iPods and were strongly […]
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