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Read MoreThousands Riot, Burn Sichuan Hotel After Girl’s Death – RFA
From Radio Free Asia: Thousands of local residents have converged on an upscale hotel in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, setting fire to the building in protest at the death and alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl...
Read MoreAn End To Costume Epics? – Joel Martinsen
From Danwei: Feng Xiaogang‘s The Banquet and Zhang Yimou‘s Curse of the Golden Flower were shut out of the foreign language Oscar shortlist this week. At roughly the same time as that announcement, Guangming Daily ran a report from SARFT that aims to discourage the copycat costume epics that, in SARFT’s language, “gain audiences but […]
Read MoreChina’s sprint to sporting gold – BBC News
Chinese Olympics machine has started spinning again. Training ground now: Sydney. From BBC News (photo: Chinese young athletes are gaining experience in Sydney, via bbc.co.uk): The Chinese sporting juggernaut has thundered into Sydney. It is a 300-strong team of elite young athletes to compete in the biennial Youth Olympics, a five-day festival featuring 16 different […]
Read MoreVatican and China Open Talks on Improving Ties – Ian Fisher
From New York Times: The Vatican began two days of meetings on Friday over the church’s relations with China, which have soured because of a dispute over the right to appoint bishops. The meetings were called to discuss “problems between the Holy See and China,” the Vatican’s top spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Thursday. […]
Read MoreThe Year of the Pigskin – WSJ
Is China’s market for American football worth a bite? Maybe not now at least. But US is as keen on educating the Chinese as grabbing the market there. From the Wall Street Journal (photo: NFL hopeful Gao Wei, via wsj.com):...
Read MoreBlood debts – Economist
From The Economist: Tens of thousands of lives devastated. Not a single official held to account Walking through the village of Shuangmiao, Henan province, Zhu Longwei points out the houses of families unaffected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. They are few and very conspicuous: imposing grey-walled structures towering over clusters of old dilapidated […]
Read MoreOne less brick in the wall － The Economist
From The Economist: In a quaint tradition the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing used to mark the end of foreign correspondents’ stints in China with a gift. There was probably no irony intended in the choice of memento: a plate emblazoned with a picture of the Great Wall. China’s most famous architectural deterrent to […]
Read MoreChina missile worries India
From The Times of India: The Dragon has done it again. China’s test of a ballistic missile to knock down a satellite in space, apart from evoking widespread concern around the globe, has sent alarm bells ringing in India’s defence and security establishment. Though it is believed that China’s ASAT (anti-satellite) weapon system test on […]
Read MoreShanghai Bribery Inquiry Ensnares Big Firms – David Barboza
From The New York Times: The Shanghai police have detained 22 people in a bribery investigation that has ensnared some of the world’s biggest companies, including McDonalds, Whirlpool, McKinsey and ABB, according to reports in the state-run news media. The government did not announce formal charges, disclose who was detained or offer a full list […]
Read MoreWhy China’s Missile Test Is Troubling – Simon Elegant and Mark Thompson
From Time.com: It’s springtime for anti-satellite missiles ” again ” now that China has fired a missile into space and destroyed an aging weather satellite orbiting 500 miles above the earth. The James Bond-style exercise left a several-hundred- meter-wide cloud of scrap metal floating around in space. Some of the debris could pose a threat […]
Read MoreGoogle, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Vodaphone Display Some Cojones – Rebecca MacKinnon
From RConversation: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Cisco and others have been getting a lot of heat over the past year for colluding with human rights violations and state censorship in countries like China. Fortunately, three of those four companies have found the wherewithal to do more than just duck and cover. A couple of months ago […]
Read MoreStarbucks faces Forbidden City ban – Mure Dickie
From The Financial Times: Starbucks could be banished from Beijing’s fabled Forbidden City amid complaints that the presence of the ubiquitous US coffee shop chain in the former imperial palace constitutes an “affront to Chinese culture”. China’s official media said on Thursday that a low-key Starbucks outlet near the rear of the sprawling Palace Museum […]
Read MoreChina Detains Three After Beating Death of Reporter – Reuters
From Reuters, via the Washington Post: Chinese police have detained three suspects in connection with the death of a reporter beaten to death as he investigated an illegal coal mine, state media said on Friday amid an outcry about media rights. Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain […]
Read MoreChina to Tackle Pollution and Curb Use of Energy – Joe Mcdonald
From The Herald: China is launching a multibillion-dollar effort to cut pollution and soaring coal and oil demand, by raising energy efficiency in flats and offices. Authorities are tightening standards and threatening to revoke developers’ business licences if they fail to comply, said Qiu Baoxing, a Deputy Construction Minister… China is one of the biggest […]
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