From BBC News: Hong Kong’s high court has dismissed a plea by campaigners to save a British colonial-era pier, giving the go-ahead for the government to demolish it. Protesters had challenged the legality of a government’s decision not to declare Queen’s Pier a historic monument – which would have saved it….[Full Text] – Read also […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Restaurant owners and patrons should abandon the use of disposable chopsticks for the good of their health and the environment, an official with the China Cuisine Association (CCA), has said. Bian Jiang, its secretary-general, recently called on restaurant operators to phase out one-use cutlery, especially wooden chopsticks, in preparation for next year’s […]
Read MoreFrom Weekly Standard: Membership in the United Nations is supposed to be “open to all . . . peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained” in the U.N. Charter, as the selfsame charter puts it. In a rational world, a country with the world’s 18th largest economy, which is formally and diplomatically recognized by other […]
Read MoreDanwei carries an article — “These Ten Years” — written by Tony Leung Ka-fai (Ê¢ÅÂÆ∂˺ù) via Soho xiaobao, looking at the film industry in Hong Kong over the past ten years. …In July everyone was discussing the tenth anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to the motherland. I will gladly stand up and, from […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Xinhua News Agency’s website previously published a list of the new standing members, members, and alternate members of various provincial Party committees in China on July 3. This list signaled the end of election campaigns during the last half of 2006. Now the recent issue of China Newsweek has revealed four trends regarding […]
Read MoreFrom TCS Daily: As US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson ends yet another round of Strategic Economic Dialogue talks in Beijing with very little progress to show for his efforts, one cannot help feeling that one is watching a slowly unfolding Greek tragedy. For all the main protagonists of this drama play their parts seemingly oblivious […]
Read More2007, the year of the Golden Pig, is expected to be a baby boom year for China. It also looks to be a big year for marriages. From CRIENGLISH via China Daily: Some 3,390 couples registered for marriage in Beijing on Wednesday, August 8, which is considered highly auspicious date. The figure “8”, whose prenunciation […]
Read MoreDanwei introduced a series of video clips by China Car Times “profiling the Geely automobile company and its charismatic founder Li Shufu.” Part 1: [Click here to see the rest of the series via China Car Times]
Read MoreIn all the hoopla surrounding Wednesday’s Olympics countdown extravaganza on Tian’anmen Square, Asia Times correspondent Edward Russell was among the few to note that one of the city’s most important preparations for 2008 ” a test-run of the vehicle ban designed to ease the city’s infamous traffic” failed to happen: On Tuesday, the day the […]
Read MoreAn immigrant worker in the city, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom AP via The China Post: Thousands of Tibetan exiles marched in the Indian capital on Wednesday to protest the 2008 Olympic in Beijing and demand an end to China’s rule over Tibet. Wearing headbands and T-shirts with...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Two Chinese bank workers have been sentenced to death for stealing nearly $7m (¬£3.5m) from the bank’s vault – and losing almost all of it on the lottery. The theft, from the state-owned Agricultural Bank of China in the northern province of Hebei, is reported to be China’s biggest ever. The two […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Post: With help from some Western spin doctors, Beijing is learning how to answer American threats about trade sanctions – shut up, or we’ll cut off credit to both Uncle Sam and Wall Street . China’s usually secretive officials yesterday launched their first open push-back campaign aimed largely at political critics […]
Read MoreKent Ewing is a teacher and writer at Hong Kong International School. He writes an article to state that “the number of unmarried Hong Kong women living on their own shot up 43.8% over the past five years,” and analyses the reason by showing a series of census data. From Asia Times Online: When Deng […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief ( Volume 7, Issue 16): In its efforts to expel an Islamist government and capture a handful of inactive al-Qaeda suspects in Somalia, the United States has risked its political reputation in the region through a series of unpopular measures. These include backing an unsuccessful attempt by warlords to take over the […]
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