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From The Time Asia: China has grown into the world’s made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world’s output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimate”China’s factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter’s ideas and designs”much of it is […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: The Chinese government is using a new internet content management system named the “Night Crawler System” (pa chong) to block access to websites that have not been registered with authorities as of the June 1 deadline established by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) in March of this year… Authorities have now begun […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: The 10 mainland western provinces suffer an annual economic loss of up to 150 billion yuan (HK$141.1 billion) because of environmental deterioration, according to state media. The amount lost accounted for 13 percent of the local yearly gross domestic product, Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday, quoting a government research report. See also […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Thousands of workers in a Hong Kong-owned textile mill in southern China staged a strike and protested for higher wages and clashed with police, prompting riot police to use tear gas and arrest workers, Chinese media reported over the weekend. The strife erupted on Friday morning at the Futai Wool […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: As he rose through the ranks at China’s largest lender, Zhang Guilin helped build the bad debt crisis plaguing his country’s banks, the gravest threat to this fast-growing economy. Zhang directed funds to cronies and political allies, authorities here say, adding to a national toll of bad loans estimated at $500 […]
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