From China Daily: Hotels in Beijing should provide Bibles for foreign visitors during the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, a Chinese political adviser said… Beijing is expected to receive about 500,000 to 550,000 overseas visitors during the 29th Summer Olympiad, which opens on August 8, 2008 and will run until August 24… At least 40 million […]
Read MoreFrom United Daily, summary translated by CDT: Zhang Xianliang, a famous writer and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) criticized the members of the National People’s Congress and CPPCC, also referred to as the “two sessions.” He pointed out that the local government and officials have no ability to supervise and […]
Read MoreThere has been growing unrest in China due to food safety concerns, poisoning, and fake drugs. The Asian Development Bank criticized the Chinese administration last year and called for urgent reforms. Whether Chinese officials are responding to outside pressure or to the worries of its citizens and businesses, several prominent Chinese officials have issued apologies […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Metropolitan Daily, translated by CDT (photo: Du Xin the text message spammer, via Southern Metro Daily): Eight years into the job of Xinhua District (Êñ∞ÂçéÂå∫) party secretary, Du Xin (Êùúʨ£)’s next goal in life was to be promoted to b vice mayor or something of that rank in Pingdingshan City (Âπ≥È°∂±±Â∏Ç). Unlike President […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadialogue: …It now seems possible that the finless porpoise, known in Chinese as the “river pig”, may go the same way as the baiji (the Yangtze River dolphin). In December 2006, a survey of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River found no trace of the baiji, and the number of finless […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via The Japan Times Online: The late Emperor Hirohito was critical of Japan’s decision to start a war with China and felt his military planners had underestimated the enemy’s strength, according to a recently found diary chronicled by his chamberlain between 1939 and 1945, Tokyo publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said Friday. Excerpts from […]
Read MoreU.S. based blogger Josie Liu has been following the 2007 NPC, CPPCC meetings on her China in Transition blog. Today she covered following contents: * Don’t Push for China to top the Gold Medal List in the 2008 Olympics * China’s Soft Power Roots in her Own Cultural Tradition * Set Confucius Birthday as the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s stability could be threatened if the government tried to curb smoking, a senior official said on Wednesday at a discussion of the annual meeting of parliament. “Smoking harms people’s health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability,” said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. “Smokers rioted when the former […]
Read MoreFrom The Register: The wife of a jailed Chinese cyber-dissident has travelled to the US to sue Yahoo! for its role in facilitating his prosecution. Wang Xianoning was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2003 for posting what Beijing claimed were subversive materials on the net. His wife, Yu Ling, flew into the US this […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Foreign journalists covering China’s annual parliament session are being allowed for the first time to interview lawmakers and political advisers directly. Chinese official media are touting this as a sign of the country’s growing transparency to the world’s press ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. China’s domestic media, by contrast, face growing […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: China will create an agency to invest its immense reserves of foreign currency, now totaling more than $1 trillion, the country’s finance minister announced on Friday. The minister, Jin Renqing, offered no specifics about how much of China’s currency reserves would be under the agency’s control. But whatever the precise figure, […]
Read MoreFrom yWeekend „ÄäÈùíÂπ¥Âë®Êú´„Äã, translated by ESWN: Someone said: “The Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry people did it.” Someone said: “A decorator company boss did it for his own fengshui.” Someone said: “The truth has not been confirmed yet.” One incident. Three reporters. Three versions. What is the truth about the “green paint on the mountain […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via Victor Shih’s blog: China confirmed the appointment of a senior Finance Ministry official as deputy secretary-general of the State Council yesterday, to lead preparations for a new agency that will more actively manage the country’s foreign-exchange reserves. Lou Jiwei, 56 years old, formerly a vice minister of finance, has […]
Read MoreFrom A Glimpse of the World blog: Imagine a world where Germany denied the Holocaust, the United States denied the slaughter of Native Americans and Europe denied organizing its immensely profitable and centuries-long trans-Atlantic trade in African slaves. Why would they bother? Presumably because they thought cleaning up these dark blots on their past would […]
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