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From AFP, via the Philippine Daily Inquirer: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Sunday began a tour of India’s hi-tech capital and called for closer cooperation to launch the “Asian century” of information technology. India’s software skills combined with China’s dominance in hardware can trigger a tectonic shift in the global technological landscape, Wen said […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Newsday: China said Sunday that its top legislative panel will settle a constitutional dispute over how many years Hong Kong’s next leader will serve — a decision pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong say will degrade the former British colony’s legal system… But the Hong Kong government last week asked Beijing to settle […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Guardian: Anti-Japan protests erupted for a second day in China on Sunday, as Tokyo demanded an apology and better protection for its citizens and diplomats after demonstrators smashed windows and threw eggs at the Japanese embassy… Some 10,000 protesters surrounded a Japanese-run Jasco supermarket in the southern city of Shenzhen on […]
Read MoreAbout the recent Anti-Japan protests, Edward Friedman writes: The protests are abnormal. Student protests especially in spring time are natural all over the world. Studies of student protests show that the targets tend to be...
Read MoreFrom the China Information Center: Source in China said Cheng Yizhong, former editor-in-chief of the Southern Metropolis and Xin Jing Bao (Beijing News), received a phone call from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on April 5, telling him he had won the 2005 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Chen said […]
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