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From the Washington Post: China reported its first confirmed cases of people falling ill with bird flu Wednesday, saying the disease had spread from infected fowl to human beings in at least two areas. The announcement, from the Agriculture Ministry via the official New China News Agency, marked a recognition of the failure to prevent […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Li Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend’s young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued the boy, but not before […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Officials and professionals attending the opening ceremony of the fifth Forum on the China Internet Media signed in Hangzhou Tuesday a joint proposal calling on China-based news websites to contribute towards establishing a harmonious society. Put forward by Zhou Xisheng, president of state-owned Xinhua Online, the proposal provides guidelines for China’s Internet […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a speech given by Yu Jie at the 2005 Asia-Pacific Regional Writers’ Forum in Melbourne, Australia: Yes, as Czech democratic vanguard Havel said in “Living in Truth,” we are a group of writers who want to live in truth, we come from a country where lies are overflowing, we choose to reject […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: What is it about commodities and Asia that attracts rogue traders? A decade after Nick Leeson brought down Barings and Sumitomo’s chief copper trader executed a $1bn fraud, a Chinese copper broker has gone missing. The man, named as Liu Qibing, is said to have taken out a massive bet that copper […]
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