From AFP: China had 345,000 millionaires by the end of last year, the second-most in Asia after Japan, according to a new study by US investment bank Merrill Lynch. The number of Chinese US dollar millionaires was up 7.8 percent from the year before, helped by a stock market that saw its value soar 130 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Human Rights Watch urged China on Thursday to use its U.N. Security Council membership to help end state repression in Myanmar after last month’s crackdown on street protests. The New York-based rights group noted that the auspicious date August 8, 2008, chosen as the opening day of the Beijing Olympics, marked the 20th […]
Read MoreFrom The China Media Project: And the results are in! “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” (‰∏≠ÂõΩÁâπËâ≤Á§æ‰ºö‰∏ª‰πâ) logged the most number of uses, appearing 52 times in Hu Jintao’s political report to the 17th National Congress. A distance second, “scientific development” (ÁßëÂ≠¶Âèë±ï) racked up 38 appearances. Used a total of 34 times, “opening and reform” (ÊîπÈù©ÂºÄÊîæ) finished […]
Read MoreA new, interesting fight is brewing, this one over which city will get the last three-digit area code (with a 2 in the middle) in China. Translated by CDT from Southern Weekend: Well known are the easy-to-remember area codes for China’s biggest cities. Beijing has 010, Guangzhou has 020, Shanghai 021, Tianjin 022, all the […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal Online: In mid-August, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conducted a multi-state military exercise in Russia’s Volga-Urals region, code-named “Peace-Mission 2007.” The SCO allowed some 80 nations to observe rehearsal of the drill, but not the US, an omission that could command considerable outside attention, if not alarm. The joint exercise has prompted some […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: The seventeenth national congress of the Chinese Communist Party on 15-19 October 2007 is attracting high levels of interest from the foreign media. According to some reports, more than 1,000 foreign journalists have already applied to cover the event. Many of these reporters have been contacting me for explanations of the issues involved, […]
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Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: A Wenzhou developer is taking the Huangpu River all the way to Dubai. The Zhejiang Zhongzhou Group plans to build an S-shaped waterway simulating Shanghai’s famous river in the World Islands project off the coast of the United Arab Emirates , company Chairman Hu Bin told Shanghai Daily yesterday. Island Shanghai – […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at how the government’s failure to be transparent about pollution figures in Beijing is worrying Olympics planners: Beijing officials preparing for the Games point proudly to a state-of-the-art control room that measures pollutants at 27 monitoring stations around the city. They say they are adding subway lines and have moved many […]
Read MoreAccording to Will Hutton of the Observer, the ongoing 17th Party Congress is, globally, “the biggest political event of this autumn“. Yet, according to the Telegraph’s Richard Spencer, it is “important for the fact that it has been carefully choreographed to be as unimportant as possible”. Spencer writes:
Read MoreYomiuri Shimbun interviews author Zhou Qing, whose expose “What Kind of God: A Survey of the Current Safety of China’s Food” was nominated for the Lettres Ulysses Prize: Though I intended to ask for his opinion on freedom of speech in China, Zhou apparently thought I lacked a proper understanding of the situation in the […]
Read MoreTwo years ago in Beijing at the Nameless Highland bar, as I was holding my Tsingtao beer and listening to a live show of the band Rebuilding The Rights of Statues/重塑高尚的权利, I knew they had passion. Now they have an EP and a new...
Read MoreFrom China Confidential: Two so-called Fifth Generation Communist Party leaders–men born in the 1950s who are widely considered future leaders of China–have made a rare appearance before the media. Not surprisingly, however, they avoided questions on their political prospects…. Shanghai Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and his counterpart in northeastern Liaoning province, Li Keqiang , […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Orders for Chinese toys are on the rise in the run-up to Christmas despite a wave of product recalls that have shaken confidence in the safety of Chinese-made goods, the country’s product safety chief said on Wednesday. Millions of Chinese-made toys have been recalled this year, mostly because of excessive levels of lead […]
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