From Guardian Unlimited: Spectacular growth in China and India has pushed the number of people around the world living on less than a dollar a day below the 1 billion level, but masks entrenched poverty in Africa and Latin America, the World Bank said yesterday. Reporting an 80-million drop in extreme poverty in the two […]
Read MoreAn editorial from the Delaware Online: It seems that hosting the Olympics next year means more to China than its often-stated stance of noninvolvement in the internal affairs of foreign governments. Within the last week, a senior Chinese official traveled to Sudan to push the government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force, according to […]
Read MoreFrom PanAsianBiz blog: Presently there are just 63 franchise retailers in China for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Franchise Stores, mostly in Beijing. At the end of the year, that will change. “Organizers of the Beijing Olympics Games said they would allow individuals to open Olympic franchise stores by the first quarter of 2008.” Come […]
Read MoreFrom dpa, via The China Post: China plans to expand its use of animated police figures into a virtual force symbolizing the government’s monitoring of all major Web sites and online forums, state media said Saturday. The government believes the floating images of male and female police officers have proved successful during trials in the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via INQUIRER.net: While only about 4,000 people have severe skeletal fluorosis, said Ma, a look around in Zhijin reveals that residents as young as six have decaying teeth that are severely discoloured and other signs of the disease. Nationwide more than 2.8 million have some form of skeletal fluorosis, according to data published […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: China’s government-backed trade union, long considered a paper tiger, is growing real fangs — delighting worker advocates but making foreign executives sweat. Dismissed for years as a Communist Party mouthpiece and organizer of holiday parties, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has started pushing for tougher labor protections and launching an […]
Read MoreFrom Liuqiang.space.univs.cn, translated by CDT: Xie Xiaozhuan, from a farming family in Hunan, graduated from Suzhou University in 2004 and enrolled into a graduate program at People’s University in Beijing. He itemized his expenditure during his four-year college to give people an idea of how much a peasant family pay for a college student. The […]
Read MoreChongqing fans, upset on a defeat, blocking a bus carrying Chengdu fans home, via rednet.com.cn
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China Central Television recently reported a case in which 12 peasants won an administrative suit against Zhejiang Provincial Government. The issue of contention was a land requisition project in a village in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. According to statistics from the Supreme People’s Court, over the past seven years courts in China have […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Shanghaiist posted a dancing video clip from a PricewaterhouseCoopers employee gala in Beijing last fall and translated a report via Xinhua about the charming-ness of men in different parts of China: * Harbin: Macho, but don’t really make good husbands * Chongqing: Powerful, straightforward but tend to be chauvinistic (a bit like Harbin […]
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, Orville Schell writes about China’s ecological crisis and the role the next president of the United States could play in finding a solution: In today’s China, nature is on the run, and at the...
Read MoreFrom NPR: Chinese and Japanese students brought together to produce a play soon learned that tensions still divide their nations. So, after initial clashes, they wrote a new play that shies away from historical issues. The play features students from International Christian University of Tokyo and Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. [Listen to NPR ]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The dispute between Chinese beverage company Wahaha and its French partner Danone took another unusual and very pubic twist on Friday with the Wahaha president admitting he made mistakes but insisting the original contract he signed isn’t valid. Wahaha’s president Zong Qinghou says the original agreement between the two beverage giants was […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Weekend, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Our newspaper had exclusive interviews with Chongqing Jiulongpo district party secretary Zheng Hong, Jiulongpo district court director Zhang Li and the “nail house” owner Wu Ping who “vanished” after the settlement was reached. This report describes in detail how the public crisis was resolved through mediation and what is […]
Read MoreCarl Minzner, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote the following op-ed for Ripon Society (“The conscience of the Republican Party”): While the grinding Iraq war currently dominates the attention of the American public and government, China’s steady rise in economic and political influence is the single event that will reshape international politics […]
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