From AFP: Japan on Thursday warned against rushing to the conclusion that Chinese dumplings behind a health scare here were intentionally poisoned, following allegations of politically motivated sabotage. A senior Chinese...
Read MoreFrom AP: Xiao Wang works in a massive factory in southern China that makes Apple iPods. But lately, he’s been spending most of his time cooking Chinese hot pot feasts with fatty slices of pork carved from a pig’s...
Read MoreFrom Global Voices blog: It’s just a 20-hour travel, but I have lost contact with my 3 kids for 3 days! The train must have been stranded in somewhere unknown, in the wild far from any station. The only cell-phone text message...
Read MoreAfter the poisoned dumplings, pet food from China rings a bell, too. From AP via Newser: Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted Wednesday in the tainted pet food incidents that killed dozens of animals last year...
Read MoreHere is an update to the poisoned China dumplings case. After Xinhua says China Says Tainted Dumplings Not Poisoned at Plant(Bloomberg), there turned out other possibilities of who poisoned the dumplings, from Reuters: Activists...
Read MoreAfter only a week, the Chinese government has decided to pull back from its video restriction rules. More on this, the motivations for the rules’ creation in the first place, and the initial criticism they received, can be...
Read MoreWhile the official “2008 Olympic Countdown” clock is prominently displayed on the Tiananmen Square, some Chinese bloggers have also come up with their own version. Here is a humorous flash: a clock counting down the...
Read MoreGreg Torode writes in the South China Morning Post (subscription only) how a changing Russia, having turned its attention away from Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is looking east again. According to one strategic...
Read MoreAP gives an update on the Huayuan Mine disaster of last summer: Wrapping up an investigation into one of the worst accidents in more than a half-century of communist rule, safety investigators referred six people to prosecutors,...
Read MoreFrom World Politics Review: Valery Loshchinin, Russia’s ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament, recently revealed that on Feb. 12, Russia and China will present a joint draft treaty to restrict the...
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s most likely next president, called on Russian business people on Thursday to copy China and go on a global buying spree of foreign companies to bolster the economy and cut...
Read MoreAn editorial in the Houston Chronicle takes China’s press freedom to task: While China’s booming economy and rising standard of living will be showcased at the upcoming Summer Olympics, there is a dark face of the...
Read MoreFrom BBC News : Chinese authorities are working to restore power and water to millions, as the snow-hit country begins the week-long Lunar New Year festival. More than 3,000 electricians and troops are repairing power lines in...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on a Chinese New Year spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, which surprises the audience by turning into a publicity effort for supporters of Falun Gong: Before long came a ballet piece in which three...
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