Reporters Without Borders is reporting that Li Minying, a former editor of Southern Metropolitan Daily, has been released after serving half of his six-year sentence for alleged corruption. Li was arrested together with former editors Cheng Yizhong and Yu Huafeng in a case that was widely viewed as an attempt by the authorities to crack […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via CNN.com: Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine’s Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China. Nowhere more so than in Shanghai, China’s showcase city for the economic reforms of the last three decades, a financial hub which is once more rediscovering its glory pre-World War II days when […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Much to the chagrin of many prospective American parents, China has decided to make it more difficult to adopt Chinese orphans. But is it holding back the prospects of millions of orphaned girls finding homes because it is embarrassed by a pernicious side-effect of the one-child policy? Whether the new rules for […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: A billionairess in east China’s economically booming Zhejiang province, has been detained on charges of illegal fund raising, the Dongyang police said Monday. 26-year-old Wu Ying has allegedly pooled fund illegally by promising high interest rates to the creditors, the police said. Local police has her shops and businesses controlled. The Dongyang government […]
Read MoreNicholas Lardy is a senior fellow of the Institute for International Economics and author of China in the World Economy (IIE, 1994). This presentation was made at FPRI’s Understanding China A History Institute for Teachers, held October 21-22, 2006 at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Institute was co-sponsored by the Clausen Center for World Business, […]
Read MoreDr. Gao Yaojie, the 80-year-old veteran AIDS fighter and national hero, was recently barred by the local government from going to Beijing to get her US visa to receive an award from US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Here in the first part of a series of videos, you can learn about how Gao […]
Read MoreThis week ChinaCast moves its Foreign Correspondent series outside the familiar territory of Western journalism by talking with Yosuke Watanabe, Bejing bureau chief for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. A senior foreign...
Read MoreWith the Year of the Pig arriving soon, China is on the verge of a new baby boom. Photo by Shanghai Sky.
Read MoreChina Daily carries a summary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ new “Outline for China’s Sustainable Development,” which predicts Chinese people will live to 85 on average by 2050 (roughly 13 years longer than they live now). According to the report, the average Chinese will also be in school for twice as long and spend […]
Read MoreMore and more Chinese are putting the details of their salaries online. A Yi, an associate professor at Beijing University, posted a break-down of his monthly salary on his blog in September of last year. His post attracted more than 850,000 clicks in the first week, according to China News. A Yi is neither the […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: When the clock reaches midnight on February 17 and the Chinese New Year begins, so will a baby boom that threatens to overwhelm the country’s overstretched healthcare system. The following 12 months will be known as the Year of the Pig, during which anyone born is supposed to be easy-going and lucky. […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Finance ministers and bankers from the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial nations have renewed pressure on China to relax controls over its currency. Beijing needed to speed-up efforts to improve the exchange rate flexibility of its yuan currency, G7 ministers said at the end of their meeting in Germany. The G7 […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Africa started out last week with the usual manly handshakes, red-carpet strolls, factory visits, and displays of African dance and music. This tour – which includes Cameroon, Liberia, Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, and the Seychelles, – serves to fulfill promises China made […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: As China extends its reach ever more deeply into Africa’s economies, one country has quietly but aggressively moved in the opposite direction, with its companies becoming major players in booming Chinese industries. Companies with roots in South Africa, the largest and most sophisticated economy on the continent, have eagerly expanded beyond […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Sunday that 8 Chinese citizens were killed in a fire in the Republic of Korea and 17 Chinese were injured. The fire occurred at a detention facility for foreigners in Yeosu, 450 km south of Seoul, Sunday morning, the Chinese Embassy in Seoul confirmed… Reports said […]
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