From ChinaDaily.com: Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has pledged to stabilize soaring property prices by putting up more real estate for sale, standardizing the market and offering more and better houses to low-income families. By the end of last year, 512 of the 657 cities had set up the low-rent housing scheme, and the Ministry of Construction […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaDialogue: Around 200 million people in China live in poverty, but the country’s relief programme is not working, warns Gaoming Jiang. Polluters and corrupt local officials are diverting money intended to avert hardship. “Mismanaged poverty alleviation has given rise to recurring – even worsening – economic hardship, and has caused much environmental damage in […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: A documentary on China’s AIDS orphans, “The Blood of Yingzhou District,” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject at the Academy Awards yesterday. Ruby Yang, the Hong Kong director of the documentary, thanked all the “heroes” fighting AIDS and all the people who support them when receiving the trophy, Sina.com reported […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, an interesting look at a town that has had great success at lowering the birth rates, without imposing the national one-child policy: For the past 21 years, the citizens of Yicheng County, in the mining province of Shanxi, have been exempt from the “one-child policy” on which the Chinese government […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: What kind of food will athletes at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing eat? Mostly western, as most athletes at the Games will be coming from western countries, according to a Beijing Organizing Committee of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) officer before the Spring Festival. “Because the majority of athletes come from Western […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: British-based publisher Pearson said it planned to invest more in Web-based activities, particularly in the business segment via the Financial Times in the fast-growing Chinese market. Pearson Chief Executive Marjorie Scardino, speaking to reporters in a call on Monday after the company’s 2006 results, said she had ‘very strong plans’ for the Financial […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Cnet: Google, fighting to consolidate its trademark globally, faces an obstacle in the world’s second largest Web market–China’s www.gmail.cn, which is refusing to sell its Internet address to the U.S. giant. A legal source told Reuters on Monday that Google was trying to buy the Internet domain name www.gmail.cn, which is run […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: The story of how a young Englishman, George Hogg, took 60 orphans on a journey of hundreds of miles to safety across war-ravaged China in the winter of 1944 is one of the more remarkable tales of the Second World War. In the town of Shandan, in Gansu province on the Mongolian […]
Read MoreThe Times (via the Australian) reports on the hype over Chinese artists in the international market: If there is a bubble in the market for contemporary Chinese art, gallery owners, curators and collectors are not expecting it to pop just yet. Briton Karen Smith arrived in China in 1993 planning to stay a year and […]
Read MoreIn his new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, James Mann, author in residence at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and former Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Beijing, throws into question the conventional wisdom about China’s future. In Mann’s view, U.S.-China relations have […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang announced he will seek the ruling Democratic Progressive Party‘s nomination for the 2008 presidential race. “Taiwan’s history is turning to a new page. The 2008 presidential election is about to come,” said Su, nicknamed the “electric fireball” because of his small stature and lack of hair.[Full Text]
Read MoreVia Newsday: President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 was an iconic event. A brilliant diplomatic stroke, the trip melted decades of deep freeze between two of the world’s great powers and realigned the geopolitical triangle with the Soviet Union. It was a savvy political move, too, clinching Nixon’s image as a foreign policy […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The China Post: A 79-year-old prominent Chinese AIDS activist is to fly to the United States as early as Sunday to receive a human rights award after she was freed from house arrest thanks to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gao Yaojie is to receive the Vital Voices Global Women’s Leadership Award […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Traffic accidents killed more than 1,100 people in China over the Lunar New Year holiday, but the figure was down by more than a third from 2006, the official Xinhua news agency said… China again topped the world list of road deaths and accidents last year, with nearly 99,000 people killed in 450,000 […]
Read MoreOn Grist.org, Erica Gies takes a ride on the new Tibet-Qinghai railway: Ever since the $4.2 billion railway began operating in July 2006, 4,000 passengers a day have taken advantage of the chance to visit — or work in — Tibet. It may be part of the same country, but it’s a world away to […]
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