From China Daily: The central government has ordered water facilities in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province to help the drought-stricken city of Chongqing, the largest municipality in China. From Friday, as requested by the State Headquarters for Flood and Drought-Control, seven hydropower stations started pumping water into the Jialing River, the most important water resource for […]
Read MoreA case study of China’s rule of law, or lack thereof. From Yulun Jiandu and other sources, compiled and translated by CDT: Jiangxi Provincial High Court a couple of days ago handed out an official letter to journalists Xu Xiang (ÂæêÁ••) and Li Xinde to accuse them of libel in a recent expose story and […]
Read MoreFrom NPR Despite the recent slide in its growing market, China needs to pursue reforms to open up its economy as quickly as possible, says United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. On the eve of his trip to China, Japan and South Korea, Paulson says he’s more concerned about the broader Chinese economy than the […]
Read MoreFrom the Epoch Times International: China has become the world’s largest exporter of fur garments in just a few years. Many of the international fur traders, manufacturers, and fashion designers have shifted their business to China, where they can exploit China’s cheap labor and the absence of restrictive animal welfare regulations. To get some idea […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Sharp declines in share prices this week appear unlikely to deter the tens of millions of Chinese who buy in. Standing before a bank of computer terminals as the Chinese stock markets opened for business on Thursday morning, the trader was blas√© about the slump in stock prices on local […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: Many voters, pundits and pollsters think Iraq will be the decisive issue in the 2008 election, but increasingly Democratic presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton is focusing on another country: China. Clinton is making America’s dependence on Chinese investors a central theme of her 2008 message. She took to the CNBC airwaves Thursday to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Xie Huilan, 66, has worked all of her adult life and has never given a thought to retirement. Indeed, she and her 73-year-old husband work harder than ever, farming their plot of land in China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi and caring for their grandchildren, whose parents are migrant workers in the cities. “Of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Boston Herald: China plans to prosecute nine former government and state industry officials over a politically charged pension fund scandal in its business hub of Shanghai, state media reported Friday. The nine, including the former chief of the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau, have been kicked out of the Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: The important tasks for China’s reform this year is to transfer the mode of economic growth whereas the fundamental way to respond to its challenges is precisely to go on advancing the reform and...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: For years the residents of this economically distressed hollow in the Appalachians have watched textile mills, glass factories and tire makers close down one after the other. Now its lone remaining big factory ” “the last man standing,” as the production manager at the paper mill here put it ” […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: China has compared U.S. concerns about its military buildup to the prying of a voyeur wanting to see his neighbor naked. China is expected to announce an increase in defense spending next week during its annual legislative session. As Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing, the comments show just how private an issue […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: Last summer, there was grave concern that China was going to make it harder for both domestic and foreign media to do reporting on China. First, there was the proposed law in which there was a clause designed to fine media for the so-called false reporting (Manage emergency through “managing” information? , Kan […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China reported a new human case of bird flu on Thursday, and the World Health Organization disputed Indonesia’s claim that the two were close to resolving a dispute over sharing virus samples that could be used to develop a commercial vaccine. The human infection in China occurred in the coastal province of Fujian, […]
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