From Xinhua: China plans to construct a new space launch center in Wenchang, China’s southernmost Hainan Province, according to official sources. The new launch center aims to serve the next-generation rocket carriers that do emit poisonous and pollutive gas and new-type spacecraft. The new launch site will be mainly used for launching synchronous satellites, heavy […]
Read MoreThis mid-August I was in Beijing, when there was the experiment of cutting half private cars there. It was such a nice scene to see the blue sky in Beijing during those days. It’s said that 60% air pollution in Beijing coming from cars. Imagining how clear the air will be if there’s no car. […]
Read MoreThe Chinese Angry Young People Who Are Poisoned By Nationalism. By Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波). Translated by ESWN: The 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup is being held in China with the 16 teams being divided into four sections. In Group...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has cancelled talks with German officials due to take place on Sunday, when Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to hold a separate meeting with the Dalai Lama, Germany’s Justice Ministry said on Saturday. A ministry spokeswoman said the Chinese cancelled the talks on the rule of law, due to take place in […]
Read MoreFrom UPI Asia Online: Local and Western media hailed the release of jailed New York Times Beijing Bureau researcher Zhao Yan on Sept. 15. However, the detention of two Agence France-Presse reporters near Shengyou, a village north of Beijing, three days earlier, flaunts China’s promises of press freedoms, liberal reporting rules, and suspension of decades-old […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: The seventeenth congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opens on 15 October 2007. Ahead of this major, five-day event, and in line with China’s media regulations, strict controls are already in place to limit the number of “negative” stories in the news. Under orders from the party’s central propaganda department, chief editors […]
Read MoreFrom NBC News World Blog: The startling story out of China’s southern town of Guangzhou this week of a 30-year-old man dying of exhaustion after a reported three-day online gaming binge may be an odd curiosity in the West, but it underscores growing concerns about Internet addiction in this country of more than 160 million […]
Read MoreBelow are two oil painting slideshows, made and uploaded by archlute, via Youtube.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China’s government recently announced that inflation hit a 10-year high of 6.5% in August. This increase in inflation is directly related to global trade imbalances, yet China is trying to control inflation without addressing that problem. That carries two consequences. First, it is doubtful this strategy can work, which likely signals rising […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: A total of 140,660 Chinese officials have voluntarily turned bribes they have accepted over to higher authorities in past five years, China’s disciplinary watchdog said in Beijing Saturday. The bribes, including cash, marketable securities and pay orders, were valued at about 676 million yuan (89.18 million U.S. dollars), according to […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Vice President Annette Lu and two other senior figures from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party were charged Friday with corruption and forgery, the latest in a series of scandals that have created turmoil in President Chen Shui-bian‘s independence-minded government. In addition to Lu, Yu Shyi-kun, the party chairman, and Chen Tan […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China’s auto production saw an annual growth rate of 45.8 percent since 2002 and the country is expected to produce 8.5 million units of automobiles in 2007, a senior official with the top economic planner said at a forum Saturday. By the end of 2006, output value of the country’s […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: So are toys from China safe or not? If you think you’re confused, it looks as if even Mattel, the largest toymaker in the United States, doesn’t know. On Friday, Mattel’s executive vice president for worldwide operations, Thomas Debrowski, met with the Chinese product safety chief Li Changjiang, to apologize for the […]
Read MoreAP reports that China set new rules for TV talent shows, “banning ‘American Idol’ -style mass audience voting by mobile phone text message and the Internet and forcing the programs out of prime time. From FOXNews: Media analyst Wang Ran said Saturday that the new regulations effectively kill the hugely popular TV format in China. […]
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