From AFP: China agreed to send two giant pandas to Australia Thursday at a meeting between Prime Minister John Howard and President Hu Jintao ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit. Wangwang, a two-year-old male panda and Funi, a one-year-old female, will spend 10 years at Adelaide Zoo as part of a breeding program to ensure the […]
Read MoreFrom the New Zealand Herald: Speaking on the eve of an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit that will focus heavily on the globe’s most pressing environmental concern, Mr Hu urged support for the United Nations’ climate change process. …Mr Hu’s stand followed widespread perceptions that China remained one of the most significant barriers to global […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: Private investments made in the early days of a program allowing mainlanders to buy Hong Kong stocks will be small and won’t affect the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares market , Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) , told a global economic conference September 6. Shang said allowing private investments […]
Read MoreFrom AP via wishtv.com: President Bush says he finds the leader of China is “an easy man to talk to.” He describes their talks today in Australia as “very comfortable.” Bush and China’s President Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) met on the sidelines of the Pacific summit. Hu calls the 90-minute discussion “candid and friendly.” And […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese women are looking to marry a mature husband while men hanker after a young wife, a recent survey has showed. More than 80 percent of Chinese women believe an ideal other half is aged 30 or 31 and 65 percent of Chinese men want to find a wife aged 25, according to […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: The Vatican is pushing to get anti-communist bishops appointed on the mainland, a senior official in China’s state-sanctioned Catholic Church said in comments published Thursday. Pope Benedict XVI has been reaching out to Beijing, eager to bring China’s estimated 12 million Catholics under Rome’s wing. But the two sides […]
Read MoreMr Pan Yue, deputy minister of SEPA who started the Green Storm, now moves his knife to more Chinese firms creating pollution. From Reuters, via The Straits Times: CHINA’S environmental watchdog has shut down or suspended 649 firms and given dozens of others a deadline to clean up their act, state media said amid growing […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at the band Qian Jin Zu He, composed of four overweight women, to examine the prejudice against the obese in Chinese society: Their success has been modest, but given the powerful discrimination against the obese in China, Xiao said her discovery by a talent agent has been “like a tree branch […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via China.org: In a biopic released in 1994, Gong Li played Pan Yuliang, the late female painter known in China more for her legendry life than her artistic achievements. The scene that she sketched in a public bathroom caused a big stir in China then. Nine years later, another beautiful actress, Michele […]
Read MoreFrom U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper Series: Abstract: It is increasingly clear that the world would be better off with an international agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions. What remains poorly understood is that the likely costs and benefits of emissions controls are highly variable across nations. Most important, prominent projection […]
Read MoreFreelance writer and blogger Lian Yue rewrote the poem, Look Up to the Stars by China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Lian’s poem, from Niubo Net, translated by CDT: I look up to the stars, So vast and profound; As abysmal as the road to the mine. The infinite truth, So hard for me to seek […]
Read MoreA replica of the Sydney Opera House at a theme park in Shenzhen, by night86mare
Read MoreReuters gives up the update from Sydney: China takes the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific leaders forum on Thursday when President Hu Jintao meets President George W. Bush and Australia’s prime minister to talk about security, product safety and climate change. Australian Prime Minister John Howard, after getting backing from Bush on Wednesday over the Iraq […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The visit by Chinese Defense Minister General Cao Gangchuan to Japan this past weekend begins the process of rebuilding military confidence between the two countries and raises expectations. But judging by the past, Sino-Japanese military ties still face many challenges. The minister’s visit, the first in almost a decade, has been described […]
Read MoreBBC made a follow-up report on Terracotta army’s exhibition in UK and said that” the exhibition, The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, looks set to become one of the most successful the museum has ever staged.” Nearly 100,000 tickets have already been sold for the six-month exhibition – and it still does not open for […]
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