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From the BBC: The Chinese government says there is no need to be alarmed. So far, the only deaths reported from the latest bird flu outbreak are 178 wild geese found on the shores of Lake Qinghai earlier this month… But if there is no reason to be alarmed, why has China rushed to shut […]
Read MoreFrom siliconindia.com: When the going gets tough, the Chinese simply cross the Wall. Faced with a higher tax on exports following pressure from the U.S. and the European Union, large Chinese textile suppliers to Wal-Mart are relocating their manufacturing base to India.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday called for making continuous efforts to improve public security situation, stressing that China needs a harmonious and stable social environment for its development… He described the present public security situation as “good in general”, but noted there also “existed some problems that should not be ignored” and […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today: Yu Quan, like every music act in China, gets almost no income from CD sales, even though millions of its CDs have been sold. As soon as a CD is made, the pirates are on the street, offering them for a fraction of the retail price. Stores sell pirate copies. Legitimate CDs […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Tehran Times: A recent survey has revealed that nearly half of China’s population cannot speak the official dialect, mandarin, despite decades of efforts by the communist government, state media said Sunday. The National Language Commission’s survey also found that many of the 53 percent of China’s 1.3 billion people who can speak […]
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