From Xinhua News Agency, via China.org.cn: Six migrant workers will attend the 11th People’s Congress of Guangdong Province in January of next year as delegates, the first time this demographic will have direct representation in the provincial legislature. …Two of the six Guangdong delegates will be elected from Guangzhou, two from Shenzhen, one from Foshan […]
Read MoreU.S. voters are finding China to be a source of contention, as questions of trade imbalances, product safety, and job outsourcing become more and more pressing. From Reuters: It could be expected that Iraq would play a big role in the 2008 U.S. election campaign. But if recent populist rallies are an indication, another country […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will commit $50 million to expand HIV prevention efforts in China, in partnership with the Chinese government and non-governmental organizations. The foundation said late Tuesday the funding will increase access to HIV prevention programs targeting those most vulnerable to infection, including injection drug users, sex workers, and […]
Read MoreYahoo’s settlement with the families of jailed Internet writers hasn’t changed the outlook for many dissidents in China, according to The Times: Yesterday dissidents wanting to share their thoughts with others in China said that the settlement would not reduce the dangers they faced. One man, who has spent most of the past 18 years […]
Read MoreA major serial corruption case in Hangzhou netted 90 officials. Translated by CDT from Jiangsu Online: Pan Jun, former head of Hangzhou City’s Environmental Protection Science Institute, has had a successful political...
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Read MoreThe New York Times writes about advertising agencies competing for Olympic glory in Beijing: …The coming Games in Beijing, now less than nine months away, promise to be an important moment for Madison Avenue, if not for furthering understanding among nations. The billions of dollars that will be spent on Olympics-related advertising ” directly by […]
Read MoreThat’s Beijing has a feature on the new Chnese virtual worlds that are trying to compete with Second Life: If Second Life is populated by only the occasional virtual Chinatown, the Beijing-born HiPiHi World turns the whole metaverse Chinese. With capital investment over USD 3 million and interest from foreign companies like Intel and Google, […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: An early morning blaze at a foot massage parlor killed at least 11 people in northern China on Wednesday, a fire official said. The cause of the fire, which broke out at 4:30 a.m. at the Lantian Foot Massage Parlor, was still under investigation, said a man at the Chengde county fire […]
Read MoreFrom Business Report: State policy lender China Development Bank on Wednesday denied reports that it is involved in the purchase of a stake in mining company Rio Tinto . “There’s no matter like this,” Yang Hua, a spokeswoman at the Chinese policy bank said. The German daily newspaper Handelsblatt wrote in an advance copy of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online: Chinese archaeologists said they have found fossilized remains of a primitive human species that lived about 2.04 million years ago in the Three Gorges Area in southwest China, the earliest ever found in the country. The findings, including a lower jawbone fragment, an incisor and more than 230 pieces […]
Read MoreFrom Herald Sun: Men of marriageable age now outnumber women by 18 million in China and the sex ratio is set to become more skewed because rural families prefer boys, it was reported overnight. Sex-selective abortions, a direct result of the nation’s one-child policy, have boosted the number of boys born in China in recent […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEx) has not yet decided on a timetable for domestic direct stock investment in Hong Kong and is currently focusing on investors’ risk education, said an official with HKEx yesterday. Domestic investors will have to wait until the Hong Kong market fully opens to the mainland, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China.org.cn: The world’s highest mobile phone base station tested successfully on Tuesday on Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, at an altitude of 6,500 meters. The station, run by China Mobile, the largest mobile phone service provider in China, will provide services for mountaineers on the world’s highest peak and the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Japan and China failed to break an impasse Wednesday in a spat over lucrative gas fields in the East China Sea but agreed to keep talking amid a recent easing of tension between the countries. Asia’s two largest economies, which are also among the world’s biggest energy importers, held their 11th round of […]
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