From Bloomberg: China Petrochemical Corp. signed a $2 billion agreement to develop Iran’s Yadavaran oil field, advancing prospects for a contract on the sale of liquefied natural gas to the world’s fastest-growing major economy. The field will produce 85,000 barrels a day in four years and a further 100,000 barrels a day three years after […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Los Angeles Times: Information controls are a barrier to social progress and innovation, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a speech Monday in China, whose communist leaders maintain a firm grip on all media. Bloomberg , founder of the financial news business that bears his name, also called on China to […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China is to treble the amount of money that foreigners can invest in the mainland capital market, making the long-awaited announcement on the eve of this week’s economic summit between Chinese and US policymakers. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the country’s foreign exchange regulator, said on its website yesterday that the […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: A Chinese arbitration commission ruled in favor of a Chinese beverage maker on a trademark disagreement with joint-venture partner Groupe Danone SA, the latest legal twist in a closely watched case but one that is unlikely to end the dispute. The Hangzhou Arbitration Commission said the period had lapsed during which […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Eleven Chinese miners trapped underground for nearly six days by a tunnel collapse ate paper and chewed on a boiled leather belt to stay alive, local media said on Monday. The miners were pulled out alive from the illegal iron and gold mine in northern China early on Sunday, the Beijing News said, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A week of senior Sino-US economic exchanges kicked off on Monday with China warning the United States not to push too hard on sensitive issues, amid long-standing tensions over the Chinese currency. However China also said it would triple the quota for foreign stock investment, in a gesture analysts said was meant to […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Though the evidence remains mostly circumstantial, a picture is emerging of a coordinated effort by Chinese-military authorities to recruit hackers such as Tan and his group to winkle out information from computer systems outside China and launch cyberattacks in future conflicts. China has long regarded cyberwarfare as a critical component of asymmetrical […]
Read MoreFrom SF Chronicle: As international diplomats gather in Bali to try to begin negotiating a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, their toughest challenge is how to deal with China’s fast rise as the world’s leading source of greenhouse gases. At the talks, which began Dec. 3 and continue until Dec. 14, no binding agreement […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Chinese politics are often not what they seem, and a recent coup by citizens in the seaport of Xiamen is a case in point. In late May, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao ordered city leaders to freeze construction of a plant slated to produce PX, a toxic chemical used in plastic and polyester, after […]
Read MoreIn an editorial in the New York Times, Eduardo Porter follows up on Albert Keidel’s earlier article explaining that China’s economy is actually much smaller than thought: The problem is that the World Bank’s measure of China’s rate, everybody’s benchmark, had been based on a 1980s survey of Chinese prices. This year, the World Bank […]
Read MoreThe report says that there hasn’t been any evidence yet that the father had been infected by his son. But it was possible, from AP via MSNBC: The father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has also been infected with the H5N1 virus that causes the disease, the World Health Organization reported, […]
Read MoreStudying abroad attracts most Chinese students, reported by Xinhua: More than 80 percent of university students in China want to study abroad, according to a new online survey. The survey, conducted by the China Youth Daily and involving 2,400 university students, revealed that 42 percent of respondents believe an overseas education will be beneficial to […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Ang Lee‘s controversial spy thriller Lust, Caution has won a host of prizes at the Golden Horse awards in Taiwan. The World War II drama was named best picture at the annual event – seen by many as the Chinese-language equivalent of the Academy Awards….[Full Text] [Image: Ang Lee received two Golden Horses […]
Read MoreCurrent.com’s journalist Sherif Soliman tells about another life style far from China’s modern society – living in caves. Soliman says that this way of life is slowly disappearing. [Original Video Here]
Read MoreBelow is a trailer of a documentary about two Swiss architects on two very different projects: the national stadium for 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, by elPatrolArt via Youtube:
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