With the world’s fastest growing economy, much of it nurtured with natural resources from Africa, China is asked to take more responsibility for helping fight poverty in other developing countries. From AFP: World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Sunday invited China to team up with the 185-nation development lender to fight global poverty and said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: PetroChina, the country’s largest oil and gas producer, said on Sunday it was launching an initial public offer of shares in Shanghai that may be China’s largest, raising more than US$9 billion. Consultations with investors on pricing will start on Monday and subscriptions will be taken on Thursday and Friday. Funds will be […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang entered the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party’s top leadership, on Monday. The four new members were elected at the first plenary session of the 17th CPC Central Committee. Xi, 54, and […]
Read MoreA series of online songs is described in the Beijing Morning Post article below. The songs have set off a sort of Chinese version of last year’s CNN-Daily Show dust-up, in which CNN is a group of traditional Chinese musicians and Jon Stewart is an emerging cadre of smirking Internet punk-commentators. Translated by CDT: “Mouse […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: A record number of more than 10,500 Chinese Muslims are expected to fulfill their pilgrimages to Mecca , Saudi Arabia , according to the Islamic Association of China (IAC) Sunday. This is the first time the figure is exceeding the 10,000 mark, said Hong Changyou, IAC vice chairman. The first group of IAC […]
Read MoreFrom AP via wolx.com: Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi , known as China’s “Iron Lady” for her toughness in trade talks, was left out of a newly elected Communist Party Central Committee on Sunday, indicating that she will retire some time soon. Wu, 68, who has been responsible for contentious trade talks with the United […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Daily, summarized and translated by CDT: In recent years, all levels of the Party organization in Guangdong Province have enhanced and focused on the work of Party building at law associations and law firms. Market demand has driven a rapid increase in the number of lawyers in Guangdong. By the end of 2006, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: The Europe Union (EU) will lift the quotas of ten categories of textile imported from China starting January 1, 2008, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Sunday. According to the memorandum signed by the two parties, the EU will lift quotas on China’s textile exports to the EU at the […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Qinghai News Online: It’s no surprise to see tourism crawling all the way up the Qinghai Plateau. And it’s no wonder either more and more visitors the plateau are driving their own cars to get there. Yet, at the same time, the plateau has seen a boom in environmentalism. “We came […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: On a smoggy morning in Lanzhou, a gritty industrial city in China’s Gansu province, crowds of young men gather outside a half-built construction site. Dressed in torn jeans and dirty shirts and carrying thermoses of tea, they push toward the exterior fence, jostling for the attention of a site manager who […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where? Finding a place that was safe was Rasheed’s top priority, but openness […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun have been elected Sunday morning into the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Party’s top decision-making body. Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng and Luo Gan are not in the new central committee. Zeng Qinghong is 68 years old, […]
Read MoreA commentary from Guangming Daily about a scandal brewing, yet again, around big-wig filmmaker Chen Kaige. Translated by CDT: Chen Kaige, who got burned after his film crew polluted the environment, has just started shooting his new film, “Mei Lanfang (Ê¢ÖÂÖ∞Ëä≥).” (the Peking Opera equivalent of Pavarotti) for which he has been given unprecedented access […]
Read MoreBelow are an insider’s look at how Chinese toy workers, predominantly women, labor away at their workshops making millions of toys for people around the world. From mazm.com:
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