From The New York Times: With a growing number of cases involving the sale of fraudulent or dangerous medicines, China said Friday that it had ordered a thorough investigation into its government agency that is supposed to be the national watchdog. The government said it had detained Zheng Xiaoyu, the head of the State Food […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China is often depicted as a juggernaut of sorts, its untroubled and unfettered rise into the ranks of global powers a fact that lesser nations can only watch with awe and trepidation. On Friday, President Hu Jintao of China completed a 12-day tour of Africa that suggested the reality was […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: For the climate to change for the better, the country will use as much clean energy as possible and curb the use of fossil fuels, which is largely behind global warming… In the first official response to the landmark United Nations report on climate change released last week, Qin Dahe, chief of […]
Read MoreHere comes a detailed break-down of a monthly salary slip for a utility worker in China. The mere number of categories is overwhelming, but is a common reality in many Chinese work units, or danwei. From a post in Xici’s Reporters Home, translated by CDT: Date: Feb. 1, 2007 (salary for Jan. 2007): Division Name: […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via San Francisco Chronicle: Black-robed warriors fly through the air. Thousands of men clash with spears in spectacular battles. And an emperor struts around in splendid golden robes in the Chinese blockbuster “Curse of the Golden Flower.” Yet, China has no rating system for movies ” no formal way of warning people, especially […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times, via Euro2day: A love-in is going on between the Middle East and Asia, in particular China. The growing trade between the regions has spawned a buzz-word: Chime (China, India, Middle East). Another term, equally cheesy, is the New Silk Road, reflecting the fact that goods and services are once again flowing along […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China executed an ethnic Muslim from the country’s restive far western region for alleged separatist activities, a U.S. broadcaster said Friday. Chinese authorities say militants among the Uighurs _ Turkic-speaking Muslims _ are leading a violent Islamic separatist movement in the region and are seeking to set up an independent state of “East […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Con artists and swindlers in China who try to use fake ID will have a tougher time trying to pass themselves off as someone else now that the public has access to the Ministry of Public Security’s population database. Anyone can now send a text message or visit the country’s population information center’s […]
Read MoreZhang Wuchang (º†‰∫îÂ∏∏), (blog here) a controversial economist known as one of the founders of new system economics and modern property rights economics, said to a Southern Metropolitan Daily reporter that China doesn’t have income polarization and dismisses calculators of the “Gini Coefficient” as unworthy of being his students. The Deng Xiaoping reform admirer has […]
Read MoreIn Der Spiegel, Andreas Lorenz writes about the history of Taoism and its continued influence over life in China: The cradle of Taoism, one of China’s key religions, can be found 40 miles northwest of Chengdu, a city of 1 million in Sichuan province. It was Mount Qingcheng that the celestial master Zhang Daoling chose […]
Read MoreThe To The Point radio program had a special report yesterday on China’s role in Africa: While Chinese President Hu Jintao is on a 12-day tour of Africa, the Pentagon has announced the formation of a new command structure focusing on that continent. Trade between China and Africa has more than quadrupled in the last […]
Read MoreFrom Isaac Mao’s Blog: Dear Larry and Sergey, I’m writing you the short letter on behalf of many Internet users in China to have some suggestions to resolve the current dilemma for Google in China, from both business and social perspectives. During the National Day holiday week in 2002, when Google.com was blocked in China […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal (photo: a “Don’t Spit” campaign during SARS, via wsj.com): On the streets of the country’s capital, spitting — often complete with loud throat-clearing, gurgling and an arc of phlegm — is a frequent occurrence. The deeply ingrained habit is found among young and old and crosses class lines. Now Chinese officials […]
Read MoreLetters From China blog translated following report from Central News Agency, via China Times: At long last, top propagandist Wu Shulin openly denies the book ban accusation:- (in translation) After the seminar, reporters asked...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: There was no sign, but Gedong’s teenagers knew the way. Down a dusty alley just off Jicui Park and a few minutes’ walk from local schools, the curtained door beckoned. Inside, in a dingy back room off the kitchen, a clutch of adolescent boys crowded around six computers and stared at […]
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