From USATODAY.com: The West views this Asian country as a new world economic dynamo, but also as a closed society captive to its dated Communist structure. The year 2008 is likely to be the Year of China. The Olympics will move China to the front of world attention, much as its rapid economic rise has […]
Read MoreFollowing a debilitating algae bloom on Lake Tai in Wuxi last year, Chinese authorities have vowed to clean up their act. From the New York Times: The State Council, China’s cabinet, ordered strict regulation of the release of wastewater, the closing of heavily polluting factories near lakes, the improvement of sewage treatment facilities and strict […]
Read MoreBelow is Al Jazeera English‘s coverage of China’s stock market. It reports that “China’s market is tightly regulated, so regional market trends do not always have an effect on domestic trends,” via Shanghaiist:
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, more efforts to clean up Beijing air before August: Faced with persistent air pollution despite promises to stage a green Olympics, Beijing is planning to reduce the city’s motor traffic by half during the games to improve air quality and ease traffic flow, according to a report Wednesday in local […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China says it is facing serious power shortages as severe winter weather continues to cause unusually high demand for electricity. Thirteen regions have already started to ration power supplies, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It said coal reserves were down to emergency levels and stockpiles were only high enough to generate […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: There have been many casualties in the past few days of stunning share price declines and one of those could be the idea that the Chinese market operates in its own parallel universe. Mainland shares had attracted a huge amount of overseas interest in recent months, not just because of the […]
Read MoreReuters says that China promises to investigate reports of a cover up of construction workers’ deaths on the Olympic Stadium construction site: – Read also China Crackdown on Work Accidents by BBC, via CDT
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post, via Daily Herald news services: There was Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese Communist Party, warmly shaking hands at a party-sponsored New Year’s tea party with one of the country’s main...
Read MoreBBC News writes about the Chinese government’s strong stance against Internet pornography: Chinese authorities closed down 44,000 websites and arrested 868 people last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media has reported. Another 1,911 people received unspecified penalties for “pornography activities”, Xinhua news agency said. The campaign began last year, after President Hu […]
Read MoreTwo Chinese archaeologists made an important scientific discovery after unearthing a near-complete human skull fossil in Xuchang. From Reuters: An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man. Last month’s find in Xuchang, […]
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Read MoreThe New York Times writes about fears that the sudden downturn in China’s stock market will create instability in the run-up to the Olympics: This country’s young stock market, which only came into being in 1990, has been prone to frenzied and hysterical buying and selling. Big price swings are closely watched, not just by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: With the Olympic Games less than 200 days, away China’s President and Communist Party boss Hu Jintao on Tuesday called on cadres to step up their propaganda work to foster stability at home and a positive image abroad. His speech, at a meeting of the party’s top propaganda officials, comes after Beijing said […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is working on a draft regulation to encourage employers to implement salary rises, a move that is being seen as a way to lessen the effects of rising inflation. The regulation is designed to help develop a mechanism to facilitate a healthy and rational increase of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Chen Jiahua, a farmer in Nanping town of Pu’er City in Southwest China’s Yunnan province, drinks tea, not coffee – but coffee is far more important to him. It is his livelihood. It has become a new way of life for him and his family: The red coffee berries flourishing on his […]
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