From BBC News: An explosion at a petrol station in Shanghai , China, has killed four people, including a cyclist hit by debris one kilometre (0.6 miles) away. More than two dozen people were reported injured in the blast, including several passengers on a bus hit by shockwaves. Two workers and an unidentified woman were […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China’s refusal to allow a U.S. aircraft carrier to dock in Hong Kong on Thanksgiving — a port call planned months in advance — was probably a response to President Bush’s appearance with the Dalai Lama last month, a longtime specialist in U.S.-China relations said Friday.
Read MoreSleepy students in a new semester opening ceremony, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreSouthern Metropolis Daily interviewed a tiger expert, Hu Huijian, on the recent Huanan (South China) tiger dispute. He demonstrated a way to fake the image of the Huanan tiger by taking photos of a paper tiger. Meanwhile, since...
Read MoreAn update of the Ant Farmers’ protest, via Reuters: Tensions have eased after thousands of people in northeast China besieged government offices demanding help to get their money back from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic. Several thousand irate investors from across Liaoning, a rustbelt province striving to attract investment, […]
Read MoreAs the world’s biggest CO2 emitter, China says, “climate change is a problem for rich countries.” From Reuters: China wants next month’s international talks on global warming to focus on future greenhouse gas cuts by rich countries and moving more “clean” technology to poor countries, an official said on Thursday. China is emerging as the […]
Read MoreFrom China Rises: Living in China is like being in a laboratory and observing an experiment unfold. The speed of change in the physical surroundings, especially in cities like Beijing, has no parallel anywhere in the world, as far as I can tell. A modern gold rush is afoot here, and prospectors are arriving from […]
Read MorePeter Hessler’s latest dispatch in the New Yorker tackles driving in China. Unfortunately the website only has an abstract which doesn’t come close to capturing Hessler’s descriptive abilities: Letter from China about the writer’s experiences driving in China. Writer recalls his first car accident in China, claiming it wasn’t his fault. He’d rented a Volkswagen […]
Read MoreMure Dickie of the Financial Times writes about the censorship of his views as a panelist on a Chinese television show: While courageous Chinese journalists continually test the boundaries, they swim against a regulatory tide. The collapse of the government’s attempt to cover up the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in 2003 raised hopes […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: For two and half years veteran Chinese journalist and former CMP fellow Zhai Minglei and others went quietly to work on Minjian (民间), China’s first magazine telling the stories of grassroots...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: AMERICA’S holiday shopping season, which officially opens today, is expected to yield sales 4 percent higher than last year. This growth is not likely to be seen at discount stores; their customers are feeling the credit crunch. But a big increase is predicted in sales of luxury-brand products like Burberry […]
Read MoreFrom eKantipur.com – Nepal’s No.1 News Portal: It has been 12 years since the World Bank dropped its support for the massive and costly Arun III Hydroelectric Project in Nepal in response to local and international criticism. Today, Indian companies are bidding to construct Arun III and the Asian Development Bank and Chinese financial institutions […]
Read More“The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk’s Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong is scuttled, leaving sailors at sea and their visiting families on land. But Beijing’s point is unclear.” From the Los Angeles Times: China’s decision to block the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk from a long-planned Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong, before relenting 24 hours […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Peter Mandelson, the European Union trade commissioner, warned China on Thursday that the EU could be forced to use anti-dumping measures to defend itself against Chinese exports if Beijing failed to help reduce an “unsustainable” trade deficit rising by ‚Ǩ15m ($22.3m) an hour. Mr Mandelson’s comments reiterated the call he made […]
Read MoreFrom The Korea Times: China’s release of a white paper on the country’s political party system purports to show that it has a system of “multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.” This, presumably, is meant in part at least to counter criticism that China is nothing but […]
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