From Bloomberg: Warner Music Group, Sony BMG and nine other music firms have sued Yahoo China for alleged copyright violations, the latest effort by global record firms to fight piracy in the world’s most populous country. Beijing’s intermediate court yesterday accepted the suit, which was filed in January, seeking 5.5 million yuan in compensation from […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, outlined a new approach to economic and trade relations with China on Thursday in a speech calling on authorities in Beijing to deepen reforms of financial markets and let in more foreign investors and investment banks. In a 45-minute address to financial executives in Shanghai, Mr Paulson […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via zdnet: Web rivals are battling to set up their online library services in China, to secure a slice of the world’s second-largest internet market Web search leader Google and its top rival in China, Baidu.com, are racing to build their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world’s […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist blog: This interactive map “illustrates some of the most pressing water-related issues in China and how problems that originate upstream are inherited by those living downstream, even those living in other countries.” So says the very comprehensive PBS website entitled China From the Inside, which accompanies the television network’s four-episode series of the […]
Read MoreFrom The Shanghaiist blog: According to this morning’s Metro Express (Êó∂‰ª£Êä•), officials at Shanghai’s Conference on Population and Family Planning declared yesterday that there were 18.15 million inhabitants of Shanghai at the end of 2006 ” and that doesn’t include migrant workers. The figure is said to be 2.07 million more than 2000. By 2010, […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China’s Parliament began debating landmark legislation to protect private property on Thursday following a rare and lengthy public consultation that suggests the Communist Party may be willing to allow more scrutiny of controversial government policies. The proposed law introduced to the National People’s Congress stipulates that all forms of property, […]
Read More1. On May 30, 2004, a mother and her son take a break while climbing the Great Wall . The son is excited about his first visit to the Great Wall but his mother looks sad, thinking both of them with AIDS. They come with 11 other AIDS orphans to celebrate the Children’s Day on […]
Read MoreAt the opening ceremony of the CPPCC annual meeting, foreign minister Li Zhaoxing (李肇星) was surrounded by reporters. Here is an exchange between Minister Li and a Taiwanese reporter, as reported on club.china.com,...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: When Liu Huana was 5 or 6 years old, she learned to help her older sister put goats out to pasture. By the time she was 7, she could take care of 20 goats by herself, often stopping to sneak fresh watermelon from another farmer’s fields… Today, Liu is a member […]
Read MoreFrom Peering Into the Interior blog: In China everyone wants to send their kids to College. In Yantai city, which is on the coast of Shandong, more than 20,000 students lined up to attend a College Recruiting Fair. Over 240 police officers were needed to help control the crowd. The sad thing is for those […]
Read MoreChinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing says Japan should face up to history and take responsibility for its army’s use of sex slaves during World War II, via BBC: He was speaking after Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused controversy last week by questioning whether women were “coerced” into sexual slavery. Many historians say Japan compelled […]
Read MoreAmerica often condemns China’s human rights record, most recently with the State Department annual human rights report. Recently, China published the 2006 American Human Rights Report as a response to and criticism of America. From the Washington Post: The report took aim at a variety of issues, including civilian deaths in Iraq, child poverty, racism, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via China Daily: The beautician from Chairman Mao‘s hometown looks at herself in the mirror and bursts into tears of joy. Forty pounds lighter, jaw slimmer, eyes and nose refined, breasts lifted, 30-year-old Chen Jing has just been through an extreme makeover for a Chinese reality show called “Lovely Cinderella.” It’s a sharp […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: A local official’s comments that it is hard to define the “right” or “wrong” idea of officials’ administrative achievements left the public stunned as well as eager to educate the official in that regard. Mr. Xu Shaohua, the top official of Zhanjiang city of Guangdong and an NPC national delegate, […]
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