From International Herald Tribune: The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s largest English-language daily, has abruptly announced the departure of two top editors, the latest in a series of personnel changes in the newsroom over the past year. The separate resignations of the paper’s editor and the managing editor, disclosed in an internal memo late […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Boston Herald: Twice in the past three years, Chinese President Hu Jintao has been greeted in Africa as the welcomed leader of a new economic and political power. But on a trip starting Tuesday, he also faces growing skepticism about China’s role on the continent. The itinerary for the eight-nation, 12-day tour […]
Read MoreFrom SanDiego.com: China will lend African nations $3 billion in preferential credit over three years and double aid and interest-free loans over the same time, Beijing said on Monday ahead of President Hu Jintao’s tour to woo the continent. The announcement by China’s Ministry of Commerce stressed the offer came with none of the strictures […]
Read MoreMing Pao (translated by ESWN) reports on the potential impact for domestic journalism of the new easing of restrictions for foreign journalists: China Youth Daily veteran reporter Lu Yuegang said that it is inevitable that when the Chinese government permits non-mainland (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan) and foreign correspondents to gather news freely, there will be […]
Read MoreXinhua reports on the first attempt to establish real-name registration for bloggers: A blog site that only allows users to publish blogs and comments using the writers’ real names — believed to be the first in China, was launched here on Monday. Chinese intellectuals are enthusiastic about social affairs and are willing to express their […]
Read MoreThis week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series features Jocelyn Ford, former China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace Beijing bureau. Ford reported for Marketplace for...
Read MoreFrom China Business News (Á¨¨‰∏ÄË¥¢ÁªèÊó•Êä•) via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT (photo: Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng, via China Daily): Shanghai mayor and acting party secretary Han Zheng (Èü©Ê≠£) proudly announced at a government report meeting of the city that all the illegitimately used pension funds, totally 3.7 billion yuan including interest, have been recouped. Without naming […]
Read MoreSome new, weird numbers to chew on. From Shanghai Youth Daily via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT: A recently released paper, China Modernization Report 2007 (‰∏≠ÂõΩÁé∞‰ª£ÂåñÊä•Âëä2007), predicts that China will fully complete its “first modernization” by 2015, based on the growth rate between 1980 and 2004, meaning in eight years China will be as rich as […]
Read MoreFrom AP via ABC News: Police in northern China have detained three men for the deaths of two women whose corpses were to be sold as “ghost brides” to accompany dead men in the afterlife, state media said. Authorities indicated that the killings last year were not isolated cases, the Legal Daily newspaper said on […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: The world’s largest mining companies are turning to the UN and the World Bank in an attempt to prevent China freezing them out of Africa, The Times has learnt. The heads of more than a dozen mining companies representing assets of more than $700 billion (¬£357 billion) met in secret at the […]
Read MoreA thick, polluted haze over Beijing in the morning, Via flickr digitalexistence.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: A small intestine transplant patient, a 27-year-old man from the central Henan Province, married on Saturday nearly eight years after an organ transplant from his father saved his life… Eight years after the operation, father and son are healthy, except that the young man still takes anti-immunity drugs daily to […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: No outbreaks of bird flu among poultry have been reported in China for 127 straight days since Sept. 20 last year, said Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai in Beijing on Sunday. The record should be ascribed to the efforts the government andagricultural departments had made to prevent epidemics among animals, Sun said. […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph: James Bond may finally have made his peace with communism. Tonight, the actor Daniel Craig will be the first Bond to walk up the red carpet in Beijing after Casino Royale was finally allowed past the censor and into Chinese cinemas. The film’s Chinese premiere, which Craig is due to attend, will at […]
Read MoreFrom Laowiseass Blog: “You come here when you want the truth. You won’t get it from them,” a farmer in Hebei province once told me during a news interview to learn what China’s estimated 800 million people with rural residence permits thought of some recent government action. The farmer — a loose term that covers […]
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