Running Aground on the Ethical Shoals: Jerry Yang Meets Shi Tao’s Mother – RFA

From RFA Unplugged blog: Yahoo’s chief executive Jerry Yang and executive vice president Michael Callahan faced a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in Washington yesterday over providing misleading information to Congress last year as part of an investigation into the company’s role in disclosing former journalist and cyberdissident Shi Tao’s identity to Chinese authorities. […]

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Revalue Renminbi to Rebalance Trade, Says EU – Tony Barber

From The Financial Times: China should revalue the renminbi to boost domestic demand, remove obstacles to banking reform and cool an overheating heavy industry sector, Peter Mandelson, the European Union ‘s trade commissioner, said on Thursday. In a speech in Washington that highlighted the EU’s growing concern over China’s currency management and commercial practices, Mr […]

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China Launches Global Warming Initiative – Joe McDonald

From AP: China, one of the world’s leading producers of greenhouse gases, launched a government fund Friday to channel money from the sale of emission-reduction credits into environmental projects. China has resisted adopting emission reductions under international agreements but says it is committed to curbing climate change. The new fund is to receive a portion […]

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Firms Warned Against Avoiding New Labor law – Chen Hong

From China Daily: The government has warned domestic and overseas companies against trying to bypass the new Labor Contract Law by forcing employees close to completing a decade in service to quit and rejoin. The All China Federation of Trade Unions knows about such moves and has begun intervening to pre-empt them, an official surnamed […]

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Merkel Meeting Dalai Lama Was Mistake Says Schroeder: Report – AFP

From AFP: Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said his successor Angela Merkel committed a mistake in meeting Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, China’s state media said Friday. “My predecessors and I refused to meet with the Dalai Lama… and I hope the incumbent government will adhere to it, too,” Schroeder told a […]

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Religious Texts Allowed At Beijing Olympics, But For Personal Use Only; Falun Gong Excluded – AP

From AP, via International Herald Tribune: Outraged Beijing Olympic organizers sought Thursday to refute allegations of religious intolerance, saying Bibles and other religious items for personal use are welcome at next year’s Beijing Olympics. That latitude, however, does not extend to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, banned eight years ago as an “evil cult” and […]

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China Coal Mine Gas Leak Kills 29 – Reuters

From Reuters: Twenty-nine miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak in southwest China’s Guizhou Province and six others are missing, state media reported on Friday. The gas leak at Qunli Coal Mine in Nayong County occurred on Thursday afternoon when 86 miners were working in the shaft, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted […]

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China Tightens Foreign Investment Rules – AFP

From AFP: China has released new rules to prohibit or limit foreign investment in the latest tightening move that signals a major overhaul in outlook of the nation’s booming but flawed economic model. In a wide-ranging directive published late Wednesday, China’s key economic developmental agency laid out a comprehensive list that at its root highlights […]

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Yahoo Isn’t The Only Villain – Peter Navarro

From Los Angeles Times: Which company has committed the greater evil? Yahoo Inc. helped send a reporter to prison by revealing his identity to the Chinese government. Cisco Systems Inc. helps send thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated Internet surveillance technology to China. If bad press is to be the judge, the […]

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Beijing Won’t Blend Recycled Water into Drinking Water – Beijing Times

Translated by CDT from the Beijing Times: Rumors have it that Beijingers will probably soon drink a mixture of first-hand tap water with recycled water. Yesterday, Beijing Water Bureau’s deputy director Cheng Jing (Á®ãÈùô) dismissed the rumors, which potentially could have created panic. “Beijing’s water recycling technology has reached world class standards,” the official said. […]

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China to Join Hands with Russia in Mars Mission – Xin Kuai Bao

Translated by CDT from Xin Kuai Bao (Êñ∞Âø´Êä•): A foreign affairs spokesperson for the National Space Administration (ÂõΩÂÆ∂Ëà™Â§©Â±Ä) said that China is going to launch twin Mars explorers on a Russian-made rocket in 2009. The twin crafts will be developed and produced by China and Russia. China’s will do the same job as its moon […]

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Behind The Smile – Nina P. West

Yue Minjun’s canvas painting “Execution” shone at Sotheby’s in London in October because of its price of $5.9 million. The painting is based on Tiananmen in 1989. From Artfact.com via Forbes: …Since the early 1990s, Minjun’s works, both paintings and sculpture, have featured figures wearing the same facial expression–a wide, oddly enigmatic smile. The eerie, […]

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