From Financial Times: The cost of shipping dry bulk commodities, such as coal, iron ore and cereals, has surged to a new high boosted by strong demand, port congestion and a significant lengthening of trade routes. The Baltic Dry Index , the best gauge of the world’s dry bulk shipping costs, last week rose above […]
Read MoreFrom Y Weekend and translated by EastSouthWestNorth: What has changed with the sexual activities and relationships of the Chinese people over the past six years? Recently, the published research results at the Chinese Renmin University Sexual Sociology Institute website challenged the general beliefs of many people. During an interview with reporter from Y Weekend, Professor […]
Read MoreFrom Royal African Society website: What passes for the conventional wisdom emanating from Western capitols these days portrays the emergence of China as a major economic and diplomatic force on the African continent that is having a detrimental impact on the prospects for good governance there. China’s ‘no conditions’ foreign policy has in short order […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Washington has now heard the two candidates from Taiwan’s main political parties state their objectives. During his trip to the US, Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (˨ùÈï∑ª∑) mentioned, more than once, the need for more dialogue between the US and Taiwan. One can only hope that this will materialize. There […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: In Beijing, a pregnant woman, Zeng Jinyan, blogs almost daily about her married life. This, however, is no tale of cosy domesticity. She posts photographs of the cars used by the state security officers who follow her and her husband every time they leave their house. Last week, she described going for […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Thirty-five of the 52 trapped workers have been rescued after a rail tunnel under construction was flooded in central China’s Hubei Province, sources with local work safety officials said on Sunday. The flooding accident occurred at around 3:00 a.m. Sunday at the Yesanguan rail tunnel in Enshi Tu and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, which […]
Read MoreLenovo, aiming to retain a large share of the Chinese computer market, will begin producing a cheap computer for low-income Chinese. The computer can be connected to a television set and will come with a keyboard and processor. From the Chicago Tribune: Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday that it will sell a basic personal computer […]
Read MoreBelow is a selection of photos depicting Chinese people’s worship of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution taken by Xiao Zhuang, a Zhejiang-born photojournalist who started working for Xinhua News Daily in 1952. In 2004, a number of Xiao’s works were published under the title “Irrational Times” by Zhonghua Publishing House and displayed at 798 […]
Read MoreIn addition to distributing a list of slogans that promote China’s one-child policy, officials have banned what they deem to be “offensive” birth control slogans. From the Boston Globe: China has banned crude and insensitive slogans promoting the country’s ‘one-child’ family planning policy, such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies,” which have stoked anger […]
Read MoreFrom eFlux Media: In order to push the sales of its latest operating system and to combat the software piracy Microsoft decided to cut the price of Windows Vista in China. In a bold move, Microsoft reduced the price of Windows Vista as much as 67 percent. According to the company, from August 1, the […]
Read MoreFollowing article is translated from Spanish. The author is a senior analyst (Asia-Pacific) at the Elcano Royal Institute and professor of Applied Economics at Madrid’s Complutense University, from realinstitutoelcano.org: Theme: In early June China unveiled its National Plan for Climate Change, a document which has generated some controversy and which has led certain sectors of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Yahoo.com: As Hong Kong basks in one of its finest summers for nearly a decade, the government and environmentalists are at loggerheads over the reason for the clear blue skies residents of this usually smog-ridden city are enjoying. Air quality in Hong Kong has taken a dramatic turn for the better this […]
Read MoreChina’s answer to the question seems to be, mostly, no. Just check out the increasingly crowded roads, and longer traffic jams, in Beijing. Translated from Xinmin Weekly: Beijing topped the list of most air-polluted cities in Asia included in a report released at last December’s “better air quality” conference in Indonesia. That came as good […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Central Huijin , China’s state-owned investment company, plans to inject 40 billion U.S. dollars into the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) , the only one of the big four state-owned commercial banks that remains unlisted, the Economic Observer newspaper reported. The injection would mark a major step in ABC’s shareholding reform. […]
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