From Bloomberg: European finance ministers pressed China to let its currency strengthen so their economy no longer bears the brunt of the drop in the U.S. dollar. With the dollar plumbing record lows against the euro this month, the officials meeting yesterday in Brussels complained Europe’s economy is shouldering a disproportionate share of the impact. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s inflation lingered at 10-year highs in October, the government said Tuesday, as major state newspapers carried a vow by Premier Wen Jiabao to stabilise prices. The consumer price index was up 6.5 percent last month from a year earlier, compared wth 6.2 percent in September and 6.5 percent in August, the National […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The Dalai Lama will visit Japan this week, organizers said Monday, despite China’s protests over other trips overseas by the Tibetan religious leader. But top government officials are not expected to meet with the 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate during a nine-day trip starting Thursday, according to the Foreign Ministry. The monk was […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s muzzled press and burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity — however fleeting — to spread news quicker than government censors can control it. But the ability of bloggers to dodge censors and provide a voice for China’s poor and disadvantaged by covering news events Beijing would rather […]
Read MoreFrom China Rise: A battlefield whiff is already in the air before the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games… There’s a big dose of fear in there, too, to match China’s rightly deserved confidence that the Games (the sporting part, that is) will go well. China is getting nervous about what it sees as “intensifying negative publicity.” […]
Read MoreDanwei translates an article from the Beijing News, which looks at the demographics of agricultural work in China, when most of the young people have gone to the cities to find work: I met a number of village cadres, all of whom were in the grandpa/grandma range, most of them over fifty and some even […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: The neutral colors, anodyne landscape paintings, and diplomas ranged on the windowsill make Tian Guoyan’s office much like a psychological counselor’s clinic anywhere else in the world. But this is China, where only 20 years ago, recalls Canadian psychiatrist Michael Phillips, his local colleagues hid their work from neighbors who feared […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has started revising the current laws and regulations that ban HIV carriers from entering the country, health ministry spokesman Mao Qun’an said on Monday. At a press briefing in Beijing, he said it took time for China to learn about AIDS. When the country had no idea how HIV/AIDS was transmitted, China […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 1,000 chemical plants will be forced to close around the shores of China’s third-largest lake due to an increase in pollution charges following an outbreak of algae bloom earlier this year. In late May and early June, the giant Taihu Lake was covered in a thick foul-smelling canopy of green algae […]
Read MoreFrom theage.com.au: In August last year, Victor Perton, then a Liberal member of State Parliament, sent an email to all 128 state MPs. It also ended up with an unintended recipient. The email invited MPs to a briefing on a report, compiled by a former Canadian MP, on allegations that the Chinese Government was “harvesting” […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Giant pandas living in the wild in the misty mountains of southwest China are facing a possible food shortage as bamboo plants, their staple diet, near the end of their lifespan, state media said on Monday. Yang Xuyu, deputy head of the Wild Animal Preservation Station of the provincial forestry bureau, responsible for […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China’s two largest railway construction companies plan to sell shares in Shanghai and Hong Kong before the end of the year to capitalise on soaring valuations and make up for a shortfall in government funding for the state-owned sector. China Railway Group , the third-largest construction contractor in the world and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A gas leak at a Chinese mine trapped 12 miners underground on Monday, state media reported, the latest in a grim series of colliery accidents. The gas “outburst” in Pingdingshan, one of China’s...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: To understand the deadlock in the debate on global climate change, take a look at your iPod. The vast majority of the world’s MP3 players are made in China, where the main power source is coal. Manufacturing a single MP3 player releases about 17 pounds of planet-warming carbon dioxide into the […]
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