From AP, via BusinessWeek: For 24 years, toy maker Yoshiritsu has resisted the pull to move to lower-cost China, sticking it out in more costly Japan to meet the exacting demands of its picky customers. But that strategy may be starting to pay off in a new market: China itself. “We came to see what […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: Those who see India’s growing closeness to the US as an indication that New Delhi has mortgaged the independence of its foreign policy should feel reassured by Sonia Gandhi’s visit to China, which followed close on the heels of a trilateral meet in Harbin, China, between external affairs minister Pranab […]
Read MoreAccording to official figures, more than 4700 coal miners died in China last year. But independent labor groups put the real toll at closer to 20,000 annually. It has become so routine that hardly anyone notices anymore. Here is...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via yahoo.com: China will push its banks to forge deeper into overseas markets for acquisitions and a global profile, a top bank regulator said on Sunday. “We will encourage Chinese banks to go abroad to participate in international competition and overseas acquisitions to improve global competitiveness,” Wang Zhaoxing, assistant chairman of the China […]
Read MoreFrom Star Telegram, via Cato Institute website: The People’s Republic of China continues to send worrisome signals about its security strategy. As the tone of cross-straits relations grows increasingly strident, China’s latest military reshuffle and ongoing lack of transparency about its military budget are creating new tensions with both the United States and its neighbors […]
Read MoreFrom Sydney Morning Herald: In the fiscal debauchery of a modern Australian election campaign it can be hard to imagine that democracy causes governments to spend taxpayer money more wisely. But that’s because Australians have never known anything else. In China’s 800,000 villages, local officials spend 44 per cent of their budgets on themselves, including […]
Read More“China’s new heir apparent is a surprise pick, suggesting that ‘intraparty democracy’ is no joke.” From Newsweek International: Not long ago, China’s Communist party would never have picked Xi Jinping as its next boss. For one thing, he’s a “princeling“”a derogatory term for the offspring of party leaders, who are resented by many Chinese because […]
Read MoreMengjie, a resident of Mudan Jiang city, spent two months to modify a bike into the shape of the Olympics logo. He plans to ride the bike all over China to promote the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Photos and news via Xinhua. Mengjie showing his bike to the public.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni flew to China on Sunday to lobby for tougher international sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programme, officials said. China agreed to passing two rounds of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Tehran but, like Russia, has voiced a preference for pursuing negotiations with the Iranians. This view has put it […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s top legislature on Sunday adopted a draft amendment to the Law on Lawyers which will make it easier for lawyers to meet criminal suspects and obtain evidence. The draft amendment to the Law on Lawyers was approved after being put to the vote at the end of the five-day session of the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: Japanese patrol vessels fired water cannon Sunday at a boat carrying Chinese activists who were protesting Japanese claims to territory in the East China Sea, the activist group said. A boat carrying the protesters arrived near the five disputed islets known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and Senkaku in […]
Read MoreSince July this year, the crackdown in Chinese cyberspace has been widely reported. Here is the latest example. SINA.com is China’s largest news portal and blog hosting service. Like every other blog hosting service in China, SINA hires human censors and uses key-word filtering technologies to censor blog posts on its servers. The bloggers on […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: This year the Best of Blogs voting has started in Oct 22, 2007. You can cast your vote online for the best weblogs, videoblogs and podcasts. According to Deutsche Welle, there were 7,000 nominations around the world this year. 15 Chinese weblogs are in the nominee list. Among which three of […]
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