From AP: The former head of China’s drug administrationÔºàÂõΩÂÆ∂È£üÂìÅËçØÁâ©ÁõëÁù£Â±ÄÔºâ is being investigated on suspicion of taking bribes to allow companies to get around drug approval standards, state media reported Sunday. Zheng XiaoyuÔºàÈÉëÁ≠±Ëê∏Ôºâ, removed from the post as head of the State Food and Drug Administration in June 2005, is suspected in a string of bribery […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: DaimlerChrysler AG’s (DCXGn.DE) partner in China, Chery Automobile Co., said its annual sales would rise to a million automobiles by 2010 from just over 305,000 last year, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. …China has set a goal of promoting exports from its fast-growing auto industry into developed markets, including the United States. […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China must meet its international human rights obligations, French presidential candidate Segolene Royal said Sunday on a trip to China where she hopes to bolster her foreign-policy credentials. Royal said China had to stop jailing lawyers and journalists, especially as it had signed international human rights agreements. …In the past year, China has […]
Read MoreFrom China Law and Society Blog: As we all know, Chinese court is actually an affiliate of the government because the latter funds the former and this is the case from the central government downward to the bottom local level. Courts have been viewed as an instrument by the government to enforce and implement governmental […]
Read MoreThe English-language wires all have pieces today on the political resurrection of Xie Zhenhua (ËߣÊåØÂçé), the former head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, who resigned in 2005 after the Songhua River beneze pollution debacle. From AP via Taipei Times: Xie…has been appointed vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s most powerful […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Some year-end roundup items: A 2006 Lexicon The Beijing News did its annual arts & entertainment review in the format of a language textbook. Twenty vocabulary items, from “blog” (Âçö), “brokeback” (Êñ≠ËÉå) and “hidden rules” (ÊΩúËßÑÂàô) to “Oh my God” in Shaanxi dialect (È¢ùʪ¥Á•û, from My Own Swordsman), “indecent exposure” (˵∞ÂÖâ), and of […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: There has been much talk lately about a consumption boom in China and considerable hype about its rising middle class. Some investment banks have gone so far as to claim that the Chinese consumer will displace the American consumer as the driver of world economic growth as early as 2015. There is […]
Read MoreThe Observer excerpts “The Writing on the Wall,” a new book by Will Hutton, formerly editor of the Observer and economics editor of the Guardian: China is the new factor in global politics and economics, and its rulers and people know it. It now has more than $1 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, the world’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: A new recombinant H5N1 vaccine virus has been developed in China and is available for researchers and companies that want to develop or produce the H5N1 vaccine for human use, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Shu Yuelong, senior official with Chinese CDC, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has unveiled its Jian-10 multi-role indigenous fighter jet, marking a “historic leap forward” and narrowing a technological gap with major military powers, state media said on Saturday. China is the fourth country in the world capable of developing its own advanced fighter aircraft, engines and air-to-air missiles, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Up to 200 farmers at Sanshangang (‰∏â±±Ê∏Ø) of Nanhai district (Âçóʵ∑) in Foshan city of Guangdong put up a defense against both gangsters and the government officials who were trying to dispell them from the construction site that just started on 18,000 mu of land, worth […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: More and more dissidents have been put in jail for writings and suffering for deteriorating health in recent years, and human rights laywers are calling out to international organizations, American and EU leaders to put more pressure on the Chinese authorities to win freedom of these […]
Read MorePassengers queue up at the Guangzhou train station. Photo by tao_Guangzhou.
Read MoreFrom Chinaeforum: Chongqing was hit by its most severe draught in August, 2006. According to local statistics, 1.3 million hectares suffered from the unusually hot and dry weather. People living in such areas rely on horses to transport water. [Click to see the original photos, need to scroll down] People living at Gaopo (È´òÂù°) love […]
Read MoreFrom yWeekend, translated by ESWN: Later December last year, Gao Qinrong forwarded his appeal materials to the National People’s Congress. He said that the materials will be forwarded to the Supreme Court and his appeal will have bright prospects. Gao Qinrong was involved in the report on the Shanxi Fake Irrigation Project and was named […]
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