From AFP, via TODAYonline: A Chinese woman who contracted AIDS from a hospital blood transfusion was detained on suspicion of a serious crime after she asked the health ministry for more compensation, an activist said. . Postal worker Li Xige was detained by police in her home county of Ningling in the central province of […]
Read MoreFrom Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Fuelled by its economic growth and armed with a new sense of self-confidence, China now counts itself among the powerful nations of the world and is eager to assert its global authority among the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations. ‘China and the G8 countries are each important players in the international […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Every summer, hundreds of Chinese- American scientists, so-called overseas Chinese, leave their posts in the United States and elsewhere to return to help out, lured by lucrative salaries, prestige and the chance to “help China.” Despite all the hype, most researchers say, their best students are so far staying in […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: …The Thai Education Ministry aims to promote the Chinese language alongside compulsory English and hopes that one third of high school students will be proficient in Chinese within five years. Lending impetus to this move are China’s other efforts to promote Chinese language education overseas. Beijing recently established the Confucius […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Migrant workers are temporary laborers from rural areas working without official permits in cities. Many urban employers of these workers want their effort, but not the liability for safety, fair wages, family services, and a host of other rights furnished to those with residential permits by way of birthright or deep pockets. […]
Read MoreChinese authorities often uses “state secrets” charges to arrest government critics and others who write or talk about sensitive political subjects, including journalists Zhao Yan and Shi Tao. Yet the government has...
Read MoreThis is Richard W. Fisher’s speech on News & Events – Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: As you contemplate them, you might start by putting China’s economy in context. One can paint two starkly different pictures of China right now, the Big China view and the Little China view. The Big China view centers on […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Prostitutes are being made the focus of the Ministry of Health’s latest efforts to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to a draft guideline released by the ministry on Monday, prostitutes are to be offered HIV/AIDS and safe-sex education, as well as tests and treatments for sexually transmited diseases. According to […]
Read MoreFrom KYODO NEWS: Japan’s education ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook Tuesday that critics call nationalistic, immediately drawing flak from China and South Korea. While some of the eight history textbooks approved in the latest round of ministry screenings mentioned wartime sex slaves in simplified terms, most avoided […]
Read MoreWhile welcoming certain gestures by the Chinese government, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes after a visit to China that its recommendations in a 1997 report have not been implemented: “Namely, the provision which stipulates that everyone shall not be consider guilty until convicted has not been amended to clearly stipulate the presumption […]
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