From PTI: Amidst warming of ties, China has taken exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh and his assertion that the state belongs to India, evoking a strong reaction from New Delhi. Almost...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At the mouth of the Tashan mine, one of the largest coal mines in China, men in hard hats waited to begin another shift a quarter mile underground. Lunch break was over. Their faces were smeared with...
Read MoreFrom AP: The editor of a Chinese newspaper known for its aggressive reporting has been released early from prison after serving four years on corruption charges, a colleague at his newspaper and a journalists’ group said...
Read MoreAsia Sentinel looks at reforms at the China Development Bank: Approval should come soon for the 14-year-old bank to list on the stock market in the first half of this year, and it should quickly become both a major lender to the...
Read MoreIn the Atlantic, James Fallows writes about the Great Firewall and its limitations: Depending on how you look at it, the Chinese government’s attempt to rein in the Internet is crude and slapdash or ingenious and well crafted....
Read MoreThe INFO Project Blog has posted a video interview with Dr. Wang Ruotao of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Wang provides an overview of the occurrence of HIV/AIDS in China, where the disease may spread in...
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews an exhibit currently at the China Institute in New York of Chinese shadow puppets: Long before the invention of film the Chinese developed a remarkable art form of moving images. Shadow puppets, made...
Read MoreA concise summing up of the recent increase in iron prices and the growth of ore sales by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to China can be found in tomorrow’s Sydney Morning Herald: But when it comes to relations with customers...
Read MoreIn China’s latest move to flex its financial muscle, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China’s state-owned investment fund, China Investment Corp., may invest upwards of $4 billion in a new fund being started...
Read MoreA January 24 article in Time reports on the retreat of “Zola” or Zhou Shuguang, the 26-year-old celebrity blogger who had set out to shed light on local government corruption throughout China armed with a digital...
Read MoreHenry Rosemont, Jr. writes in the recent issue of Foreign Policy in Focus to argue otherwise: China’s unprecedented industrial growth over the last two decades has raised the question of whether it now poses a threat to the...
Read MoreWhat is behind the 200 million items of harmful online information removed by the government? From The New York Times: At first blush it sounds like quite an achievement: A marvelously named arm of the Chinese government, the...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China Investment Corporation , the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, is close to an agreement with JC Flowers, the US private equity group, to put about $4bn into a new fund to invest in ailing financial...
Read MoreSlate Magazine looks at how modern urban Chinese celebrate the New Year, without many of the rituals and traditions of the past: While Chinatowns in America host flashy parades this month, city folk inside the People’s...
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