A case involving restrictions on the important of foreign-made car parts marks China’s first defeat in the World Trade Organization. From the BBC: Upholding a complaint from the European Union, Canada and US, the...
Read MoreSpielberg’s decision to withdraw from the Olympics has sparked opinions from bloggers, including these two interesting ones: Richard Spencer blogs for the Telegraph: Only one topic today, which is Steven Spielberg’s...
Read MoreFrom BBC: It is not unusual for China’s most senior leaders to meet with the Chinese people but it is rare for them to do so with an apology on their lips. … And as someone in the state media told me, there were...
Read MoreAccording to Chemistry World magazine, the Chinese government is planning to replace SEPA with an environmental ministry this year: Hong Yaxiong, deputy director at SEPA’s department of policy, said that the move would...
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on an Internet sex scandal that has made the front pages of the Hong Kong media for 16 days in a row, and has been abundantly covered by ESWN and Shanghaiist. From the Guardian: An unlikely coalition of pop...
Read MoreAt a disarmament conference in Geneva, Russia and China formally presented a plan to ban weapons in space. From the International Herald Tribune: Russia and China have pushed for years for a treaty to prevent an arms race in...
Read MoreFrom AP via Seattlepi.com : Chinese insurers have paid more than 1.2 billion yuan, or $165 million, for deaths and damage from snowstorms that killed at least 107 people, said officials quoted Wednesday by a state news agency....
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times : In the shadow of the $440-million “bird’s nest” Olympic stadium , migrant workers toil for a few dollars a day. A few miles away, bulldozers destroy a neighborhood where petitioners...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times : China’s chief environmental watchdog says local officials are sabotaging a central government edict to restrict loans to heavily polluting industries, despite limited success in withholding credit in some...
Read MoreSome Chinese officials are growing anxious over the possibility of future demonstrations and social unrest during the Olympics. To combat this, new plans have been announced that include heightened watchfulness and added...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese tanker truck carrying more than 30 tonnes of sulphuric acid has crashed in southwest China, spilling its load into a river and causing “serious pollution”, state media said on Wednesday. The...
Read MoreFrom the East-West Center of Honolulu: With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, the world’s attention will soon focus on the rapidly changing but still sensitive news media landscape in China. At a media conference last week...
Read MoreHarvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna’s new book “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours ” is a comparative book on the different business landscapes of...
Read MoreThe Shanghai Daily News reports that migrant workers have some hope to resolve their woes with free legal assistance in the northwestern city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province. Running with a budget of less than 7,000 yuan...
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from China News Online: The new round of city cluster reform zones are not all about pure economics; they are starting to tackle social and equality issues that are just as important as the economy in the...
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