The Smart Cube blog (via China Law Blog) reports on a survey that found that despite the recent spate of negative news about exports manufactured in China, foreign companies have no plans to change their modus operandi in the...
Read MoreRecently, the Chinese government has had to defend its moon photographs against allegations that the pictures were plagiarized. Sleuthing on the part of blogger Emily Lakdawalla might put these doubts to rest. From MSNBC’s...
Read MoreRecently, the Chinese government has had to defend its moon photographs against allegations that the pictures were plagiarized. Sleuthing on the part of blogger Emily Lakdawalla might put these doubts to rest. From MSNBC’s Cosmic Log: In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on Chinese media coverage of major events unfolding in neighboring Pakistan and Burma in recent months: But despite the proximity and important interests in play, most Chinese newspaper readers had to content themselves with dry, narrowly drawn and sometimes inaccurate accounts of the events. Absent from the foreign news coverage […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on Chinese media coverage of major events unfolding in neighboring Pakistan and Burma in recent months: But despite the proximity and important interests in play, most Chinese newspaper readers had to...
Read MoreMigrant workers going home on a tricycle in Beijing, via fengniao.com.
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Acer , the world’s third-largest personal computer vendor, has beaten its close rival Lenovo to become a global sponsor of the Olympic Games. Acer will become one of 11 global sponsors for the...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Acer , the world’s third-largest personal computer vendor, has beaten its close rival Lenovo to become a global sponsor of the Olympic Games. Acer will become one of 11 global sponsors for the Olympics from January 2009 to 2012. It will supply notebook and desktop computers and monitors to the 2010 […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: For the past two decades, John Kashani has been buying cheap goods from Chinese factories and exporting them to the US. Now he wants to sell made-in-the-US goods in China, and to do it from Yiwu , a...
Read MoreFrom AFP: Chinese President Hu Jintao and his US counterpart, George W. Bush, spoke on the phone about building closer bilateral ties and resolving global disputes such as Iran, China said Friday. The pair spoke on Thursday,...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s bid to end fuel shortages by ordering refiners to beef up supplies puts only a temporary cap on a problem that may keep bubbling up until the government bows to market forces. If global crude prices...
Read MoreFrom New York Times: China said on Thursday that it had demolished the facilities of more than 2,800 rural food makers as part of its effort to crack down on shoddy, fake or substandard food, according to the official Xinhua...
Read MoreFrom RConversation: Zhou Shuguang, aka “Zola,” reports that he is home safe in Changsha after being detained in Shenyang, interrogated, made to write detailed reports on everybody he met and everything since arriving in Shenyang to blog about the Yilishen “ant-farmer” protests, had his ID and money confiscated, punched around the head and neck a […]
Read MoreFrom Variety: In its most drastic measure ever against Hollywood, Chinese authorities have banned the release of American pics for at least three months. Ban began Saturday and will continue until the end of February at least, but Chinese sources say it could continue until May. [Full text] And from the International Herald Tribune: Chinese […]
Read MoreMore on the “ant farmers” in Shenyang, who were hundreds of thousands of mostly poor workers and farmers, many of whom lost their life savings in a financial scam. News about the incident and subsequent protests has...
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