The International Herald Tribune is reporting that China is aiding a U.S. investigation into the steroid smuggling ring: The government said over the weekend that it was cooperating with the U.S. authorities, who last week announced the largest crackdown ever on steroid production facilities in the United States and other parts of the world. American […]
Read MoreOn his blog, Richard Spencer comments on a recent report that the rush to teach Mandarin in British schools hasn’t been as successful as hoped: If pupils are being (even) more disruptive because the classes are Chinese language ones, that suggests that either they are in full-scale revolt at doing something so difficult, in which […]
Read MoreLongquan village in Henan province is considered a “national-level civilized village,” a distinction awarded in honor of its productive farms and profitable private enterprises. All of Longquan’s accomplishments amounted to little, however, when a demolition team made up of local officials, police and soldiers marched into the village to clear land for a 30-meter wide […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports that Shanghai’s hosting of the Special Olympics this week may be a preview of things to come for the 2008 Olympics, if all goes well: On the days leading up to the opening ceremony, the entire area around Shanghai’s Olympic Stadium will be completely shut down to all traffic; a feat of […]
Read MoreFrom IPS: Jarring against a dearth of official news about the turmoil in Burma, the ‘Southern Weekend’ — one of China’s more liberal official newspapers — has chosen to run a lengthy feature about an ethnic Chinese entrepreneur striking it rich in the jade business in that neighbouring country. But the feature was curiously apt. […]
Read MoreFrom The American Spectator: It is campaign season in Taiwan. With opposition candidate Ma Ying-jeou the favorite to win next year’s presidential election, President Chen Shui-bian is pushing a referendum on Taiwanese membership in the United Nations. The measure is roiling politics at home and international relations abroad — with America stuck in the middle […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Channel NewsAsia: Hong Kong’s former deputy leader was on Sunday selected to represent the democratic camp in an upcoming by-election. Anson Chan easily beat rival Lo Wing-lok with 175 votes to Lo’s 83 in a poll of democratic politicians and activists. The result means Chan will go head to head with former […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s landmark Property Law that provides equal protection to both state and private properties was put into effect on Monday. The law approved by the national legislature in March after repeated revisions and unprecedented eight readings is seen as a significant step in the country’s efforts to further economic reforms and boost social […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: A book of idioms and explanations of the thinking of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin has been published, coming out on the eve of the country’s most important Communist Party meeting in five years, state media reported Monday. Xinhua News Agency said the book collected about 1,000 idioms and […]
Read MoreMore than a month after he was “detained” by police in Zhejiang, Internet activist and anti-eviction crusader Lu Gengsong (ÂêïËÄøÊùæ ) has now been officially arrested and charged with a familiar crime. Via Google News: China has formally arrested writer and cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist, on suspicion of subverting state power, […]
Read MorePork, apparently, is for the plebes. TIME looks into an American-owned company that’s set up camp in Inner Mongolia to help provide the Middle Kingdom’s wealthy with more filet mignon: Earlier this year, Western Cattle started to raise Holsteins on an American-style ranch and feedlot built in the wide open spaces of Inner Mongolia. Their […]
Read MoreThe latest round of the Six Party Talks are on hiatus, apparently to give the parties time to put the final touches on a new joint agreement. From XFN via Forbes.com: The six-nation talks were originally scheduled to end today after four days of meetings, but Chinese envoy Wu Dawei said there would be a […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: With tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators bravely protesting on the streets of Burma, the world’s attention has finally turned to that Southeast Asian country and the brutal military dictatorship that controls it. Burma’s military junta, which changed the country’s name to Myanmar, crushed a nascent democracy movement in 1988, […]
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