From dpa, via The China Post: It is a country where people caught smuggling religious texts or organizing illicit services can face years in jail. Yet China is about to become home to the world’s biggest Bible factory, producing a staggering 1 million copies a month. The aircraft hangar-sized plant on an industrial park outside […]
Read MoreNewly discovered footprints and a recently uncovered skeleton are the latest developments in the South China Tiger story. From Xinhua: State Forestry Administration investigators found more than 100 suspected footprints of a South China tiger on Friday in Shaanxi Province, where photos of the big cat taken by a farmer have caused a national controversy […]
Read More“Elderly dynamos” who retain power in their companies – even after they’ve hit their 80s or 90s – are at the center of this article from Business Week: In his eight decades in the media business, Sir Run Run Shaw has built the Chinese-speaking world’s most successful film and TV empire. He was co-founder of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A group of leading international record companies have lost their lawsuit against Baidu.com, one of China’s largest Internet search engines, for the alleged illegal downloading and sharing of their music. The seven companies, including EMI, SONY BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music, in 2005, accused Baidu.com of engaging in illegal downloading and playing […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: … After a preliminary study, I feel that the 17th CPC political report possesses several new and important features in regards to the issue of grassroots democracy. First, grassroots democracy is given more prominent emphasis: The emphasis is given in three areas. First of all, fostering the development of grassroots […]
Read MoreAs China continues to mull damming it’s last free-flowing river, China Dialogue examines a “viable” alternative: In many parts of China, the development of eco-tourism is one strategy among many, but in Yunnan’s Nu River valley, it is a race against time. In fact, if tourism based on the area’s outstanding natural beauty fails to […]
Read MoreFrom MarketWatch: Baidu.com Inc., the Chinese operator of an Internet-search engine, said Chief Financial Officer Shawn Wang died in an accident while vacationing in China on Thursday. A statement from the company on Saturday gave no further details on the accident. Wang joined the company as CFO in September 2004; he’d previously been a partner […]
Read MoreFor months, human rights activists in Los Angeles have been trying to drum up support for a boycott of the Beijing 2008 float scheduled to take part in the city’s famous New Year’s day Rose Parade. To no avail, according to the LA Times: The lukewarm response underscores the increasingly close relationship Southern California shares […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China will launch another nationwide campaign on Jan. 1 next year to crack down on unlicensed production and sale of food, in a fresh effort to ensure food safety, the country’s top quality inspection watchdog said. The campaign will target 28 categories of foods, including rice, cooking oil, meat, dairy products, instant noodles, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: Driven into each other’s arms by global concerns over energy, Tibet and other issues, India and China conduct their first ever joint military exercises India and China last week concluded their first-ever war games near Kunming in Yunnan province. Although the eight-day exercise, which ended December 28, involved only two companies of […]
Read MoreIn a moment of fury that has quickly become the talk of the Chinese Internet, the scorned wife of a well-known Chinese TV host recently proved there is no problem in China that cannot be profitably tied to the Olympics. From Global Voices: Friday was meant to be a big day for China’s main sports […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: If China’s exchange-rate policy is a speedometer for the government’s move toward market economics, the shift appears to be accelerating. Thanks to a surge in recent weeks, the yuan is set to end 2007 up nearly 7% against the dollar — twice the amount it appreciated against the U.S. currency in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: China’s top legislature has adopted an amendment to raise the individual income tax threshold from 1,600 yuan (about US$220) a month to 2,000 yuan, a change intended to ease the burden of medium- and low-income earners facing higher living costs. The amendment will take effect from March 1, 2008. The […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Japan’s Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, has called for increased co-operation with China in the future, at the end of a four-day trip to the country. Mr Fukuda said the neighbours could do more for the world by co-operating than each would achieve single-handedly. Despite the remarks, earlier talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wen […]
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