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From People’s Daily: The General Administration of Press and Publication of China released China’s first press industrial research report entitled “China National Press Industrial Development Report for Year 2005” at the opening of “The Second Annual Conference on China Press Competitiveness” held recently. The report said that on average, China printed 100 million copies of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Next week will see far larger war games involving Chinese and Russian troops in and around the Shandong peninsula in the Yellow sea. Regional observers say such military cooperation is unprecedented and could mark the start of something new. “The China-Russia exercise is intended to send a message to Taiwan,” said Andrew […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Environmental News Network: Chinese villagers resettled to make way for the massive Three Gorges dam project were harassed by officials and prevented from petitioning the central government about pollution, a human rights group said Tuesday. Five villagers representing the 500 residents of Yangguidian, a village in central Hubei province, were taken off […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Singapore-based Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group, has been accused of illegal logging of natural forest in southwest China’s Yunnan province. The alleged deforestation was done as part of a vast wood-for-paper project, in which APP and the Yunnan government are cooperating. The project area covers almost […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via TodayOnline.com: China has failed to provide adequate health care to most of its citizens and the national health system is unable to properly cope with large-scale epidemics and diseases, the health minister admitted. In a 11-page report, Health Minister Gao Qiang detailed a list of serious problems plaguing the sector and expressed […]
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