Orders canceled by Disney on sweatshop. Social responsibility upheld? Not really. From Interlocals.net: Huangxing Light Manufacturing is an OEM factory supplying souvenirs for The Walt Disney Company in Longgang (ÈæôÂ≤ó) area, Shenzhen, China. Last year it was criticized by concern groups as a sweatshop. Yet Disney company did not work on improving its labour condition. […]
Read MoreWorkers knocking down a building in Panzhihua, via Dan’s China Days.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China will wrest the “world’s champion exporter” title from Germany as early as 2008, the federal foreign trade body BFAI has predicted. Already this year, China will overtake the United States as the world’s number two exporter and fight neck-and-neck with Germany for the number one position, BFAI director Gerd Herx said […]
Read MoreFrom Boxun.com, translated by ESWN: Among the “eight banned books” that are being talked about inside and outside of China, I found one that I like — <The Other Stories of History: My Days at the Supplement Division of the People’s Daily> by Yuan Ying. Mr. Yuan Ying is a veteran Communist Party news worker. […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Showcased in bookstores between biographies of Andrew Carnegie and the newest treatise by China’s president are stacks of works built on a stereotype. One promises “The Eight Most Valuable Business Secrets of the Jewish.” Another title teases readers with “The Legend of Jewish Wealth.” A third provides a look at “Jewish […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaDialogue: How can China remedy its environmental problems given the pace and scale of change? Are there lessons to be learned from the international community? Growing rule of law and public environmental awareness are showing promising initial signs of success. However, if China follows the example of the US in taking decades to mobilize […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily, via Chinaelections.org: China was ranked 81st on a list of countries published in the 2006 Human Development Report (HDR). What does this mean for China? Our Stockholm Correspondent, Xuefei Chen, interviewed Kevin Watkins, director of the UN Human Development Report Office, during a seminar held on Friday in Stockholm about how clean […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on the frosty welcome President Hu Jintao received during his recent visit to Zambia: Hostility is such in some quarters that the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, on an eight-country tour of Africa to promote Beijing’s blossoming trade relationship with the continent, cancelled plans to launch a $200m (¬£100m) smelter at a Chinese-owned […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In more bad press for China’s news media, on the heels of international coverage of the Lan Chengzhang story and media corruption in China, the ongoing session of the Guangdong provincial People’s Congress said the media bore partial responsibility for food safety concerns. “‘Food insomnia’: media sensationalism bears some responsibility”, read […]
Read MoreFrom Washingtonian.com: When China and the United States finally buried their long grudge and opened diplomatic relations in 1979, the Chinese hung their flag in Washington outside the drab fa√ßade of the former Windsor Park Hotel. And into its 400 cheaply remodeled rooms, where Connecticut Avenue bends before shooting across Rock Creek Park, dozens of […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: With its gleaming towers and explosive growth, this city has helped inspire dreams of a China century. Governed for four years by a British-educated architect named Chen Liangyu, Shanghai exuded a can-do attitude that welcomed foreign investment and showcased China’s emergence on the world stage. But underneath the boom and […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post: In Shanghai’s muzzled arts world, softly spoken playwright Sha Yexin has made a habit of irritating officialdom with his independent voice. The self-described off-beat writer has acquired a reputation for exposing and criticising the dark side of society, through his plays, articles and willingness to speak out. Last month, he […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Drive from Chongqing airport towards the city centre and the first things you notice are the cranes. A grim mixture of mist and man-made pollution usually makes it difficult to see very far in this sprawling metropolis on the banks of the Yangtse River. But even in the gloom I count fifty […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At least 300,000 people in north-west China are short of drinking water because of unseasonably warm weather, which officials link to climate change. Parts of Shaanxi province face drought after January saw as little as 10% of average rainfall, state media say. Frozen lakes are melting and trees are blossoming in the […]
Read MoreFrom spiegel.de: Can the environment withstand China’s growing economic might? As one of the planet’s worst polluters, Beijing’s ecological sins are creating problems on a global scale. Many countries are now feeling the consequences. The cloud of dirt was hard to make out from the ground, but at an altitude of 10,000 meters (32,808 feet), […]
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