American actress Mia Farrow, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, criticizes China’s relationship with Sudan’s government, as well as film director Steven Spielberg for his role in helping the Chinese government stage the 2008 Olympics. From Reuters: American actor Mia Farrow has criticised film director Steven Spielberg and four corporate sponsors for supporting […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: U.S. officials have singled out China’s failure to protect U.S. copyrights, national government subsidies and regulations that favor Chinese companies as methods used to limit the competitiveness of U.S. companies in China. Lavin highlighted tensions in the aviation, steel and telecommunications industries, most of which center around charges that Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The State Council called for harsher punishments for those who make false reports or flee and hide after an accident. It also called for closer investigation of all work accidents and harsher punishments for those responsible. The State Council encouraged a wider range of supervision from the public and media and better protection […]
Read MoreThe Sunday Telegraph ran an excerpt from The Real Toy Story, by Eric Clark, about the migrant workers in China making toys to supply the world’s children: The dominance of China in toy production is staggering. There are about 8,000 toy factories, employing three million workers, spread over six main areas, of which the Pearl […]
Read MoreChina Media Project has translated portions of an editorial in China Youth Daily criticizing domestic media’s coverage of the “nail house” story, saying the reports have been blown out of proportion. From CMP’s introduction: The China Youth Daily editorial, written by Lu Gaofeng (ÈôÜÈ´òÂ≥∞), suggests that some media have used (or abused) coverage of the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: A small satellite developed by China will piggyback on the Russian launch of a spacecraft called “Phobos Grunt”, probably in October 2009… After entering orbit around the Red Planet, the Chinese micro-satellite will detach from the Russian spacecraft, and probe the Martian space environment, according to the statement. [Full text]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Channel News Asia: Six construction workers were buried when a subway tunnel being built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed, and rescuers give them little chance of survival, China’s state press reported Thursday. The accident early Wednesday occurred in Beijing’s Haidian university district on the No 10 subway line, the People’s Daily […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China may stop building a 21-km-long (13-mile) dragon planned as a tourist attraction because of environmental concerns, state media report. It was originally due to be completed in time for the 60th anniversary of Communist rule in 2009. It is located on top of the Shizhu Mountain, which was designated a national […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: His first venture, “Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing,” which ran from last September to January, brought together ancient masters of calligraphy with modern artists inspired by the visual possibilities of Chinese characters, like the abstract painter Wang Dong Ling and the conceptual prankster Xu Bing, who has […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese-American defense engineer accused of stealing information on U.S. military technology to send to China admitted trying to help that nation, a prosecutor alleged Wednesday in opening statements of a federal trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Staples painted a picture of defendant Chi Mak, 66, as a longtime agent who had been […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily, via chinaelections.org: The high-profile holdout homeowners in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality said that they want to meet the city’s Party Secretary to talk.‚Ä®‚Ä®Yang Wu, hailed as China’s “hardest holdout homeowner” on the Internet, told the Beijing News that he would allow the authority to demolish his house even without compensation as long […]
Read MoreFrom Reading China blog: Notes: The following is Wang Xiaofeng‘s sarcastic comments on the Olympic Games hosted by Beijing…. … What will Beijing look like in 2008? She will definitely be very beautiful. 1. Half of non-Beijing Chinese will leave this city and then we invite the same number of foreigners to Beijing. In a […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: American fast-food giants McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) are being bombarded for their work contracts which offer their part-time Chinese employees just four yuan per hour, well under the state requirement, state media reported. An employee is entitled to no less than 4.3 yuan per work hour, said a rule released […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: The world’s tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday. Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman Xia Shujian several days ago, the Beijing New reported….[Full Text]
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