From Reuters via SignOnSanDiego: Four Chinese firms, including property developer Soho China , have won approval from Hong Kong’s stock exchange to launch initial public offerings expected to raise a combined US$2.7 billion, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. The debut by one of the four – Xinjiang Xin Xin Mining Industry Co […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman. They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen’s body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy. Some of these needles have penetrated vital organs, such as the lungs, liver and […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China has shut down a large number of Internet data centers (IDCs) and server cabinets in recent weeks in its latest Internet purge, a source told Interfax today. “The government began shutting down large IDCs across China last week,” a Web site owner, who wished to remain anonymous, said. He said IDCs in […]
Read MoreReuters writes about the slogans that define a leader: Within a year of Hu taking power in 2002, the “scientific concept of development” began working its way into official pronouncements and the phrase “harmonious society” popped up on every banner from Beijing to Buddhist Tibet. With a five-yearly party congress due to open in October […]
Read MoreBBC reporter Dan Griffiths gives a first-person account of being detained and questioned while reporting from Shengyou, Hebei, the scene of a violent conflict between villagers and police in 2005: Round a bend in the road, I see two white vans. Several policemen are standing beside them. They look as out of place in rural […]
Read MoreJoseph Wu (吴钊燮), head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, presented a speech on Taiwan and mainland China to the World Affairs Council of Northern California on June 19. The video of this event is now available on FORA.tv:
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times, via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website: During the last two months, as Washington focused on Iraq, few people were paying attention to what was going in the remote Ural Mountains of Russia. There, under the auspices of the benign-sounding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, some 6,000 troops, combat vehicles and planes from […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: One day towards the end of August, I received a surprise call from the German embassy in Beijing telling me that Chancellor Angela Merkel would be visiting China, and that one item on her agenda would be a...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Nanjing city police have cracked one of China’s biggest child-trafficking cases, rescuing 40 babies and detaining 47 suspects, the Beijing News reported today. The police had investigated the case for about 100 days since May 25, when they found four middle-aged women on a train heading from Kunming City, Yunnan Province, to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese anti-graft investigators have found that 90 percent of the country’s most senior officials brought down in corruption cases in recent years had kept mistresses, drawing a link between sex and misconduct. Mistresses and “second wives” are common among government officials and businessmen in China and are often blamed for driving officials to […]
Read MoreStudents Xiaoxuan Li and Michael Zang traveled through villages in rural areas of Shandong and Inner Mongolia to investigate problems in Chinese rural education, in addition to teaching English classes to elementary and middle school students. They contributed the following photos and essay to CDT. (Students in Inner Mongolia) A Generation of Rural Teachers Challenged […]
Read MoreChina’s image declined due to the product safety scandals, from China Post: Public opinion surveys taken in the United States and other countries around the world show that China’s image has been badly dented in the wake of widespread reports of unsafe food, toxic toothpaste, dangerous toys and poisonous drugs. A recent NBC News/Wall Street […]
Read MoreA bride and groom at their wedding banquet in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreChina is investing heavily in biotechnology, hoping to feed its growing population in the coming decades. From Bloomberg: Diversion of food crops to biofuels has finally caught the attention of policy makers in China. Even as the country seeks to use 10 million tons of bio- ethanol and 2 million tons of bio-diesel annually by […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government is defending its actions in Darfur and saying Western countries bear the same responsibility in the region: Liu Guijin, a former Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe and South Africa, met Thursday with U.S. lawmakers and Bush administration officials to describe China’s efforts in a region where conflict has killed more than 200,000 people […]
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