From The New York Times: China has stopped granting permission for American films to be shown in its theaters in an apparent trade dispute with the United States, according to several Hollywood executives and United States government officials. The Chinese government has not announced any ban, but American movies are no longer being approved for […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: Residents of the southeast China city of Xiamen (also known as Amoy) had been waiting six months for a review that they thought would decide the fate of the city’s controversial plans for a petrochemical plant manufacturing paraxylene (PX) . They hoped it would mean their families could continue to live in […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Delawareonline: China launched a nationwide recall system Wednesday that shifts responsibility to companies to recall harmful drugs, a day after U.S. and Chinese officials signed an agreement on the safety of medicine and medical devices . The recall plan will place Chinese-made drugs and imported drugs in three classes according to their […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Three Chinese children are reported to have died while searching for valuable jade in the northwest of the country. Police believe the schoolchildren were buried alive under sand and rocks after they entered an unstable pit. A search party was said to have scoured the area after the children were seen leaving […]
Read MoreYesterday, China’s central bank set the daily trading midpoint of the yuan at 7.3647 per dollar. This is the lowest point after July 2005. In the two-days “strategic economic dialogue”, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said stronger Yuan currency is good for controlling inflation in China. From Reuters via The Financial Times: China needs a […]
Read MoreThe following OP-ED piece is from the Indian newspaper The Statesman: Armies of the subcontinent, all deriving from rather antiquated British military traditions, have only once since 1947 fought an external army ~ when China’s Communists, using Lin Biao’s military doctrines, attacked India in 1962 and India lost territory, soldiers and self-respect, gaining ignominy for […]
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Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: China is making progress fighting human trafficking, especially from southeast Asian nations, but needs greater regional cooperation and tougher action, a senior official said on Wednesday. China has resorted to harsh punishments, including the death penalty, to deter human trafficking. The U.N. Children’s Fund says 250,000 Chinese women and […]
Read MoreA columnist in the Globe and Mail writes about economist Jim Walker, who is warning against putting too much faith in reports of China’s economic juggernaut: Instead, say China skeptics like Mr. Walker, these are signs of trouble ahead. China is recording such high growth rates and such huge trade surpluses in part because it […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Darfur rebels said on Tuesday that they had seized control of a Chinese-run oilfield in Sudan, in the second such attack targeting Khartoum’s main arms supplier and oil client in as many months. “We attacked the oilfield of Rahaw this morning at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and took control of the facility” in […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that China and the U.S. have reached an agreement over food inspections, which calls for greater U.S. participation in the certification and inspection process: The safety accord, part of several aimed at easing economic tensions with China on a number of divisive subjects, would impose new registration and inspection requirements […]
Read MoreDucks on a street in Shanghai, by Ol.v!er [H2vPk]
Read MoreIn this video clip, Current.com’s journalist Sherif Soliman illustrates the degree of acceptance of homosexuality in Shanghai by interviewing people in the street. Soliman says that “In 2001 the Chinese government declassified homosexuality from a mental illness. This development, along with an economic boom and emerging gay scene has began to take shape in China’s […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: A finless porpoise was found dead last Sunday morning in Huangshi City Park in Hubei Province, the Changjiang Times reported. “Such an enormous finless porpoise is rarely seen,” said Dr. Hao Yujiang with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, brimming over with grief. The preliminary examination revealed that the marine creature was an adult […]
Read MoreNational Public Radio broadcast the second in a five part series about the Yellow River. It includes an audio slideshow: In China, there’s a saying that a dipperful of water from the Yellow River is seven-tenths mud. The river contains more silt than any other waterway in the world, gaining its name from the loamy, […]
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