From MSNBC: SONGJIANG, China – The ding-dong from the neo-Gothic church next door signals to Wu Yuqing that it’s time to wake up. On her way to the grocery store each day, she walks past the Cob Gate Fish & Chip shop and bronze statues of Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale and William Shakespeare. Tall men […]
Read MoreFrom the Epoch Times: With a large-scale anti-rat campaign launched in China’s Foshan City, Guangdong Province this year, poisoned vole meat has ended up being served as a delicacy in the city’s restaurants. In response, the city authorities have urgently issued a decree to ban all serving of vole meat in all restaurants in the […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times Online: Australia does some strange things in its foreign policies. The latest “security” (read “military”) tieup with Japan is no exception. Canberra insists that the tieup has no anti-China implication. But a tieup with a Tokyo beset by anti-Beijing dislikes and fears, and which seeks to recruit even such unlikely candidates […]
Read MoreOutside Magazine has published a lengthy account of a raft trip down the Yangtze River and an examination of what the ecological consequences will be for both China’s soaring energy demands, and the numerous dams planned on China’s rivers to satisfy that demand: Roughly the size of Germany, Yunnan is a hothouse of 20 endangered […]
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Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In the latest showdown over watchdog journalism and media ethics in China, a spokesperson for China’s health ministry yesterday criticized media for “violating professional ethics” and “misleading the public” in a story on medical fraud that ran last month in a number of newspapers and on major Web portals and caused […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The China Post: While China has been modernizing its military in recent years, Japan, South Korea and Russia — all neighbors and potential rivals — have been pushing ahead with upgrades of their own, according to a report released Tuesday. But Taiwan’s military spending has actually been decreasing, reflected in the government’s […]
Read MorePhilip Bowring writes on Asia Sentinel: The phrase “middle class” is bandied about as though China now had huge numbers happily consuming at the rate of your average Los Angeles suburbanite. Even taking into account the huge income disparities in China and accepting that most people are still poor, that would still seem to leave […]
Read MoreFrom Peering Into The Interior blog: According to Sina’s Pioneer magazine ( ÂõΩÈôÖÂÖàÈ©±ÂغÊä•) and China’s Maritime Department, the United States has on several occasions (cited as 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) “illegally entered” China’s maritime territory to conduct maritime surveillance. The sina article states that: “When America engages in military surveying, on the one hand […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: Thousands of people have posted comments on online forums in China, expressing their shock and rage over the killing of a customer by a finance guard in a bank in Shenyang.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (photo: imported Chinese worker at a Romanian garment factory, via nytimes.com): To get around the chronic labor shortages hampering this traditional textile center and in other industries across Romania, Sorin Nicolescu, who runs a clothing factory, came up with an original solution: import 800 workers from China. “The explanation is […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Tokyo and Beijing are set to resume military exchanges this year with the goal of holding mutual naval visits that would bring Japanese warships into Chinese ports for the first time since the second world war, Japanese officials said on Monday. The renewed effort to build ties between Asia’s two most powerful […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: JPMorgan Chase & Co.‘s Chinese fund management venture said on Wednesday it had received nearly 90 billion yuan ($11.7 billion) of subscriptions to its new equities fund in a single day — over 10 times its original sales target. The oversubscription ratio is one of the highest seen at any fund since China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Danone, the French food and drinks group, has initiated legal action against its main joint venture partner in China, raising the stakes in a ferocious dispute that has threatened the future of the lucrative drinks business. The French group has sent a letter to Zong Qinghou, the chairman of its joint venture […]
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