Shu-Ching Jean Chen gave an analysis for Forbes of Chinese toy product safety: The toy store may seem like a house of horrors to many Western parents nowadays, but the idea of a world without Chinese-made toys might be even scarier to contemplate for the toy industry, as well as China. In the past decade, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: US search engine Google China has struck a deal with online community Tianya.com , its latest move in a localization push to catch rival Baidu.com . The deal will see Tianya.com open two new services, Wenda and Laiba, developed by Google China. The two companies would not reveal financial details of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: High-profile Chinese dissident Yang Jianli , freed after serving a five-year prison sentence for spying and illegally entering China, has returned to the United States, his lawyer said Monday. Yang , 44, a US permanent resident, returned to his home in Boston on Saturday via San Francisco from Beijing, accompanied by a US […]
Read MoreXinhua reports that Chinese white collars have the new way to relax from stressful work: Stressed out white-collar workers are scaling skyscrapers, camping out on rooftops, smashing up restaurants, pretending to be children and even visiting cemeteries in a bid to relieve the pressure of modern life. As the country’s economy continues to steam ahead, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Guardian.co.uk: Families of 181 miners trapped in flooded coal mines in eastern China and presumed dead lashed out at one of the companies Tuesday, complaining it had ignored safety warnings to halt work. Rescue workers were pumping water in a bid to reach 172 miners missing for four days in the Huayuan […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children’s clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. The government ordered the probe after scientists hired by a consumer watchdog programme discovered formaldehyde in Chinese clothes at levels of up […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: There are conflicting reports about whether a test run of traffic controls in Beijing less than one year before the 2008 Summer Olympics has been effective in improving air quality in the Chinese capital. Chinese state media reported Tuesday that the city’s overall air quality improved during the four-day test, which removed […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s central bank raised the benchmark interest rates on Tuesday for the fourth time this year in an effort to prevent the economy from overheating and curb accelerating inflation. The one-year deposit rate will increase 27 basis points to 3.60 percent, while one-year lending rate will rise by 18 basis points to […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor digs into one of China’s most neglected Olympics stories: The Paralympics offer China an equal, if not a greater, chance of national sporting glory than the main event: Its athletes swept the medals table at Athens 2004. Around 4,000 athletes from 150 countries are expected to attend the games, to be […]
Read MoreChina takes the battle to protect it’s good name onto (it’s own) airwaves. From AP via CNN.com: The new television campaign titled “Believe in Made in China” follows discoveries of high levels of chemicals and toxins in a range of Chinese exports from toys to toothpaste and fish. The first program in the series aired […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Ministry of Public Security released figures yesterday showing the capital’s population is nearing 18 million. From AP via the International Herald Tribune: The population rise is straining the city’s natural resources and environment, with Beijing long having passed the food self-sufficiency mark of 14 million, the report said. It said the population included 12.04 […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily, one of five official newspapers with identical front pages on August 19
Read MoreFollowing international media reports that the government had downplayed news about the blue ear pig disease, which has spread to 25 provinces, officials denied the reports. From the AP: China rejected criticism that it had downplayed an outbreak of a disease in pigs, saying Monday it had been “open and transparent” with the international community. […]
Read MoreContinuing the series on ties between China and Africa, the New York Times reports from Zambia on the complexities of China’s role in the continent: From South Africa’s manganese mines to Niger’s uranium pits, from Sudan’s oil fields to Congo’s cobalt mines, China’s hunger for resources has been a shot in the arm, increasing revenues […]
Read MoreFor all official newspapers, what appears on the front page and even at which position using which fonts, have been instructed by the Central Propaganda Department for decades. This is not news. But it is still rare that five newspapers, including four nationally published ones such as People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily and PLA […]
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