From Xinhua via China.org: The Chinese government will build about 160,000 embankment dams on the tributaries of the Yellow River over the next 17 years to prevent soil erosion and filter out silt from the water, according to a senior water resources official. The long-term project involves a combined investment of 83 billion yuan (around […]
Read MoreYasukuni Shrine is considered one most sensitive issue between China and Japan. Anger over former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi’s visits to the shrine led to China to refuse visits between top leaders for 7 years. Against that backdrop, this announcement by the Japanese Prime Minister to-be has major significance. From AFP: Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph.co.uk: The proposed sale of a rare bronze statue, looted from Beijing by British and French soldiers in 1860, has run into powerful opposition from China, where there is rising anger over the millions of Chinese antiquities held by foreign museums and collectors. The beautifully preserved bronze horse head, which originally adorned the summer […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Coca Cola expects China to be its largest market, said E. Neville Isdell, chairman and chief executive officer of the Coca Cola Company. Although China’s economy has been growing rapidly for more than two decades, Isdell noted that he had confidence in its further growth. “China is currently our fourth largest market, but […]
Read MoreFrom Environment News Service: Energy officials from the United States and China Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, to increase cooperation and energy efficiency in China’s industrial sector, which accounts for 70 percent of the country’s total energy demand. Karen Harbert, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, assistant secretary for policy and international affairs and […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing Magazine: A senior executive for a British bank’s China equity fund exuded frustration while promising to keep his nose out of the mainland’s booming real estate market. “Don’t mention real estate,” the executive for Standard Chartered Bank‘s Greater China private equity fund told a Caijing reporter. “From now on, I won’t take part […]
Read MoreA man sells a pig in a village in Jiangxi, by Liu Jianfeng
Read MoreFrom China Daily via China.org: Baidu, China’s dominant search engine, yesterday launched “Baidu TV”, an online video advertising service, expecting it to be a new profit driver to help widen the gap with its rivals, Chinese versions of Google and Yahoo!. Baidu TV is the result of a partnership between Baidu and Ads it! Media […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: China’s southern city of Guangzhou has reported massive deaths of ducks in a village which are suspected to be a bird flu outbreak, according to information posted on the Website of the Ministry of Agriculture. On September 5, farmers in Sixian village, Xinzao Township in the Panyu district of Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China’s broadcasting watchdog has banned 13 radio shows it deemed too pornographic from being broadcast by local radio stations in five central and southern provinces. Provincial broadcast stations in Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Hainan were said to have aired programs about “sex and drugs”, according to the State Administration […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At least 100,000 people have marched in Taiwan in support of a government plan to hold a referendum on joining the UN under the name Taiwan. The UN has rejected previous bids from the island to join the body under its official name, Republic of China. The bids anger Beijing, which sees […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: ….Moving rapidly from one farm to the next, the virus has been devastating pig communities throughout China for more than a year, wiping out entire herds, driving pork prices up nearly 87 percent in a year and helping push the country’s inflation rate to its highest levels since 1996. …China says […]
Read MoreFrom Businessweek: After this summer’s wave of bad news about China’s product safety, Beijing finally decided it was time to patch things up. So the leadership did exactly what it has done in every tough situation China has faced over the past decade or so: It called on 68-year-old Vice-Premier Wu Yi. Her gentle, friendly […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Los Angeles Times: Trade tensions flared between the U.S. and China on Friday, as each brought disputes against the other at the World Trade Organization. China requested consultations with the U.S. — the first stage in launching a WTO dispute — over Washington’s anti-dumping measures on paper imports from China, the WTO […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The Chinese military put on a display of its first Darfur-bound peacekeepers Saturday, having troops throw up Bailey bridges and feign combat to dramatize Beijing’s desire to be seen as a partner in bringing peace to the violence-torn corner of Sudan. The training demonstration, by an engineering unit of the People’s […]
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