From Reuters via CNN: China should learn from Europe’s mistakes and promote innovation and entrepreneurship to avoid slipping into economic stagnation in the longer term, Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel laureate for economics, said Tuesday. Years of nearly double-digit growth have turned China into the world’s fourth-largest economy, but questions abound for how long the […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The Bush administration, facing heavy pressure to deal with soaring trade deficits, is considering imposing economic sanctions on China in a dispute over government subsidies. If the administration decides to take action, it would open up a new area in which American companies being battered by a flood of Chinese imports could seek […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A Chinese newspaper has accused a state-owned company of trying to cover up an accident in a Beijing subway tunnel which left six workers missing. The Beijing Times said the company had waited eight hours before officially reporting Wednesday’s accident while it carried out its own rescue operations. It also accused the […]
Read MoreA week ago, domestic newspapers broke the news that the National Statistics Bureau is balking on plans to publicize China’s second Green GDP report. This was not altogether shocking, since the country’s first estimates of the costs of environmental degradation, based on 2004 data, only came out in September 2006 – after much delay, cutting, […]
Read MoreFrom Washingtonpost,com via MSNBC: …”Beijing has made significant progress compared to a few years ago, but just by looking outside you can see the pollution is still very bad,” said Lo Sze Ping, campaign director for Greenpeace China. As he spoke, an acrid gray haze hung over the city. Air pollution was greatly reduced in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Chinese government announced on Thursday that Chinese students studying abroad would have special privileges if they return to work after graduation. Returned graduates will be qualified to work without residency restrictions, personnel quotas and pay limits, according to a document jointly issued by the ministries of personnel and education….[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog: This is my last Asia column before I have to retire shortly from the Financial Times, after 39 years. It is an irresistible opportunity to draw together some lessons and impressions gathered while covering the region and to explode the odd myth. I shall […]
Read MoreFrom Reading China blog: Over the past few years, there are many controversies over the foreign owned fast food restaurants such as KFC and McDonald’s in China. Recently, some part-time workers accuse them of unfair treatment including offering low wage, requiring long work hours, unequal agreement, and refusing to give workers labour contract. New Express […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential blog: More proof that the Monroe Doctrine is dead.Agents of state-owned Chinese companies are circling large land tracts in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The Chinese want to use the land to grow jatropha, a hearty, drought-resistant, perennial plant that produces excellent feedstock oil for biodiesel fuel processing. [Full […]
Read MoreA man covers his mouth as he crosses a street in Linfen, Shanxi, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreThe Party’s Propaganda Department has given orders to Chinese domestic media to stop reporting on the “nail house” story, a Chinese journalist who is currently in Chongqing wrote on his blog. Now some Chinese bloggers have taken up their “citizen journalist” role. Read the following post from China in Transition blog: While the Chinese public […]
Read MoreFrom Peering Into The Interior: “How do you actually watch movies on the internet?” The person in charge for copyright protection at a website answered: “go to a Peer To Peer (P2P) webpage and look! 90% of all websites have them” 2006 was the year of frenzied investment in internet movie downloading and online viewing, […]
Read MoreRFA Unplugged has posted footage from the riots last month over bus fares in Yongzhou, Guangdong Province. See the full RFA post here. Read more about the incident here.
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan’s next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island’s biggest security threat. She said she would emphasize respect, cooperation and love rather than […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a north China coal mine hit by a gas blast on Wednesday, bringing the number of deaths to 26, local authorities said on Thursday. The explosion occurred at around 11:30 a.m. at the Yujialing Coal Mine located at the Yipingyuan Township, Yaodu District of Linfen City, […]
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