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From Interfax: Yahoo has eight months to become a better search engine than Baidu or Yahoo will have a hard time surviving in China, said Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, whose company took over all of Yahoo’s China-based assets in August. “Honestly, when we took Yahoo search, it was not good, and today it’s not good. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, nationally televised gala at a Beijing sports arena to mark the 1,000-day countdown until the Games, senior […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Plans to end a controversial residency permit system have been welcomed as a positive step towards bridging the social, political and economic gulf between China’s countryside and its cities. The hukou system of household registration has for decades discriminated against the nation’s 800 million rural inhabitants, by depriving them of most of […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The mainland has been honest with the international community about its latest outbreaks of bird flu, a policy vital to global efforts to avert a threatened human pandemic, top UN health officials said. Concerns have been raised over the transparency of disease outbreaks on the mainland, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Arab Times: The ousted Communist Party chief of a Chinese county who wore a bullet-proof vest for years while fighting graft was himself sentenced to life in prison for corruption on Thursday, a source close to the defendant said. Huang Jin’gao, 53, was convicted by the Nanping Intermediate People’s Court in the […]
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