Two of China’s largest oil producers are saying they will refuse to respect a new regulation requiring certain companies to purchase pollution insurance to cover environmental compensation claims, according to a state media report. From AFP via Yahoo! Asia News: Sinopec and CNPC, parent of Hong Kong-listed PetroChina, said that they can handle environmental compensation […]
Read More172 miners in Shandong Huanyuan mine are still missing. Who should be blamed? The floods? From the Washington Post: The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons […]
Read MoreDanwei comments on the government’s recent announcement that it was scrubbing the Chinese Internet clean of “obscene” online fiction: …The dragnet has already snared 348 websites, accused of publishing “disgusting” written content that could “easily poison the minds of young people.” This anti-vice operation seems a strange use of China’s resources. Written pornography isn’t as […]
Read MoreWith Beijing’s 798 art zone morphing from obscure artist hide-out to slick market place, one provincial government decides to lure some of the capital’s art producers with a deal they can’t refuse. From The New York Times: For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but now the country’s leading contemporary artists are […]
Read MoreA group of school-aged boys pose in rural Inner Mongolia, by doos_equis via Flickr.
Read More„ÄÅ On August 15, Beijing-based performance artist Zhou Yongyang (周永阳) published the latest version of his work: “Pointing To The Sky, Cursing The Earth.” (“指天骂地”) He organized more than one hundred...
Read MoreChina’s Family Planning Association has expressed concern over the gender imbalance in the country, which far exceeds recommendations from the United Nations. From BBC: Ninety-nine cities had gender ratios higher than 125, state-run news agency Xinhua quoted the CFPA as saying in a report. The provinces of Hainan, Henan, Guangdong and Anhui also had particularly […]
Read MoreSpiegel Online looks into the bitter dispute raging between Danone and Wahaha: Western businesspeople are keenly following the case, looking on with a mixture of polite sympathy and hidden schadenfreude as Danone slides into disaster. The multinational food company, which earned revenues of ‚Ǩ14.1 billion ($19.2 billion) in 2006, has since slipped into the role […]
Read MoreFrom AP via SignOnSanDiego.com: An internal probe has revealed improper behavior in Siemens AG ‘s business dealings in China, the company said Thursday. The review was part of a wider investigation of corruption at the German conglomerate. Investigators in Italy, Germany and the United States are also looking into bribery and corruption allegations against the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via SignOnSanDiego: Eight Chinese miners are missing after another coal shaft was flooded, this time in southwest China, local media reported on Friday, a week after a mine flood in eastern China trapped and likely killed 181 miners. Emergency crews continued to try to reach the 181 miners trapped in the eastern province […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The wife of a jailed human rights activist in China has been prevented from leaving the country to pick up an award on his behalf, friends say. Yuan Weijing had been due to travel to the Philippines to collect a...
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: … China certainly has the ability to host the Olympics. The country is more powerful than for many years, and already has the experience of hosting large sporting events. The Olympics will not be a financial burden on China as they were for a small country like Greece in 2004. Moreover, the public […]
Read MoreIt appears the disease ravaging China’s porcine population has led the world’s largest pork-producing country to strike an import deal with the world’s largest pork processing company. From the Washington Post’s Washbiz Blog: An outbreak of a deadly disease among Chinese pigs has created a business opportunity for Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, which today announced an […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: Current U.S. headlines about China trumpet dubious dog food and lead paint in toys. Too bad all that is burying another important story. China’s emergence as an economic power has set off alarms among national security and military experts in Washington, D.C., about China’s rapidly rising military expenditures, including the acquisition […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Discussion concerning the drafted Anti-monopoly Law will be included in the agenda of the twenty-ninth session of the tenth National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee that meets from August 24 to 30. This is the third discussion; the second meeting concluded in June. Many legislators revealed that if nothing goes wrong, the law […]
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