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Wal-Mart is planning to move its Asian headquarters to Shenzhen, according to this article in Eastday: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, plans to move its Asian headquarters from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, a city in south China’s Guangdong Province, in 2006… Ding said besides Shenzhen’s location neighboring Hong Kong, support from its Chinese partners and […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe, an editorial about China’s passage of the anti-secession law: China’s Communist leaders sketched an unflattering self-portrait last week when their make-believe Parliament passed an anti–secession law authorizing Beijing to use “nonpeaceful means and other necessary measures” to thwart the slightest move toward independence on Taiwan. The regime’s latest attempt to intimidate […]
Read MoreThe China Daily reports on a proposed national database of HIV/Aids patients: Several critical steps will be taken this year to solve problems in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, senior officials said on Friday. “One question is that we are still blind about some vital aspects of HIV/AIDS control,” said Wang Longde, vice-minister of […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Michael Swing does not have to go back far to remember the bad old days in Macau, when Triad gangs were blowing up cars and spraying bullets at each other in shopping malls. …Since it was handed back to Chinese rule in 1999, the territory has experienced one of the most spectacular […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post , via Asia Pacific Media Network, has reported on the restrictions placed on university BBS sites: From Sunday, chat room operators and bloggers will be held liable for any “objectionable content”. Sources said the Ministry of Education had also weighed in with a circular on strengthening “political thought” at universities, […]
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