From AP, via International Herald Tribune: The boy chosen by Beijing as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s second-highest figure, met with China’s top legislator in a rare public appearance and...
Read MoreFrom Chosun Ilbo: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il caused some head-scratching when he unexpectedly pledged not to break faith with China in a meeting with a high-ranking Chinese official. Kim met Chinese President Hu Jintao’s...
Read MoreAs China continues to procure iron ore from around the world, news from Australia that Beijing-based Shougang Corp has acquired a 20 percent stake in Australia’s leading iron ore producer, Mount Gibson Iron. From the...
Read MoreJust off the AFP wire: A pregnant Chinese woman trapped on a bus in icy weather in south China for three days has given birth to a baby boy, which she will name Zhongsheng or “Born in a Crowd,” state press said...
Read MoreHarvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna is about to release a book comparing the business landscapes in China and India. In an interview with the school’s Working Knowledge website, he discusses how various social,...
Read MoreFrom contactmusic.com: The solo star’s record label EMI has confirmed that over one million copies of RUDEBOX will be crushed and sent to the country to be recycled. The products will be used in street lighting and road...
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune looks at two recent legal cases in China, those of corrupt official Wang Yuexi and imprisoned journalist Lu Gengsong, to examine the inherent contradictions in the current fight against corruption: So in...
Read MoreIn The Guardian, Jonathan Watts asks Beijingers-on-the-street what role environmental protection plays in their daily lives. A magazine editor tells him: To China’s critics in the west, I would say, don’t just...
Read MoreTalks are underway between Chinese and Singaporean officials on the planned green city to be constructed in Tianjin. Groundbreaking is planned for July. According to Channel NewsAsia: When completed, there will be some 300,000...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Organisers of the Beijing Olympics have been hit by a lawsuit from a city resident who claims they violated his intellectual property rights by failing to give him credit for the event’s official slogan,...
Read MoreAs China continues to deal with it’s most serious and horribly-timed winter cold-snap in recent memory, Reuters’ John Ruwitch takes a look at how the government has deployed its PR machine to placate the stranded...
Read MoreOverseas Chinese political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, translated by David Kelly: Last week, the US once again became ground zero for turmoil on global stock markets. It was triggered by much worse than...
Read MoreCNN International’s correspondent Kristie Lu Stout interviewed me today about the recent Internet video crackdown. The link is here. There has been stunning growth of user generated online video contents in last year, and...
Read MoreThe following poem was written by Tianjin-based poet Li Wei, translated by CDT: Is Zhang Ziyi pretty or not? Some say she’s pretty. Some say she’s not. Liu Ping in my office says she’s not pretty. However,...
Read MoreThe snowstorm which started in the middle of this month hit mainly southern China and caused an estimated USD 4 billion in direct economic losses, according to the National Ministry of Civil Affairs. Enormous pressures stemmed...
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