From Xinhua: The Internet has been extending fairly rapidly in China’s rural areas, with the number of rural net users reaching 37.41 million by the end of June, approximately 5.1 percent of the total of rural population. Statistics from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) show that at the same time urban netizens had […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Colleagues at the fast-track Communist Youth League have seen a change in their recently appointed boss. “In the past, Hu Chunhua (ËÉ°Êò•Âçé) was known within the Youth League for being polite,” says a powerfully connected Beijing scholar. “But now he seems to be acting much tougher.” Earlier this year Hu, 44, unceremoniously dismissed […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: Thousands of people marched through Hong Kong Sunday to demand the right to pick the city’s leader and the entire legislature in 2012. More than 5,500 people also hoisted umbrellas to form the numbers 2-0-1-2 ” their target year for full democracy ” before they started off, pro-democracy lawmaker […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: The Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Central Executive Committee (CEC), in an extraordinary meeting yesterday, formalized the Central Standing Committee’s call for President Chen Shui-bian (ÈôàÊ∞¥ÊâÅ) to take over the party chairmanship after Yu Shyi-kun resigned on Monday. Vice President Annette Lu (ÂêïÁßÄËé≤) and Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (º†‰øäÈõÑ) joined in urging Chen to […]
Read MoreMia Farrow, actress and Darfur activist, wrote an op-ed in Wall Street Journal: As Khartoum’s largest and closest business partner, China has provoked outrage from the international community for underwriting genocide in Darfur. In recent months, Beijing has responded with steadily increasing talk about its commitment to promoting peace in the region. But it has […]
Read MoreAs world leaders call on China to act in the Burma (aka Myanmar) crisis, an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times argues that China does not have the answer: China is not Myanmar’s biggest trading partner; Thailand is. “You keep seeing these references to Chinese oil and gas assets in Burma,” Overholt said. “The reality […]
Read MoreIn Slate, Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, gives his impressions of a recent trip to China: A visit to Beijing generates two immediate impressions: growth continues at top speed; and, surprisingly, there’s little sign of any real instability anywhere. We’ve seen the stats. The Chinese government has publicly acknowledged that the number of […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: Coveting a Van Gogh but unwilling to break the bank or into a museum? Head to Shenzhen in southern China where thousands of artists churn out reproductions of masterpieces by the dozen. China’s...
Read MoreFrom China National News: China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that over the past five years the country’s industrial economy has been developing steadily and is now midway in terms of achieving its...
Read MoreFrom AFP: Chinese authorities on Saturday issued a flood alert, relocated 138,000 east coastal residents and recalled 27,000 fishing boats as the country braced for Typhoon Krosa , state media reported. Authorities ordered the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian to closely monitor the typhoon, which was pounding northern Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: One morning this summer, residents of this eastern city awoke to find that their beloved Tai Lake had turned rancid. The water was filled with a bloom of blue-green algae that gave off a rotten smell. It was not only undrinkable; it was untouchable. Few living things stirred in the water. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Asia Age: Twenty former world leaders, including Lionel Jospin of France and Mary Robinson of Ireland, on Friday urged China to use its influence to press Burma’s junta to hold talks with the Opposition. The former heads of state and government made the call in a letter addressed to Chinese President […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Chinese medical officials agreed Friday not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families. The agreement was reached at a meeting of the World Medical Association in Copenhagen. China has previously acknowledged that kidneys, livers, corneas and other organs are routinely removed from prisoners sentenced […]
Read MoreDesertification in China is a pressing environmental challenge. Here is some alarming data, from AFP: “China has raised the environmental alarm bell after a survey found over a quarter of its land has become desert, with much of the damage caused by human activity. Desertification has affected 28 per cent of China’s land mass, with […]
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