From Raymond Zhou blog: The New Year bells had hardly stopped tolling, when something outwardly tragicomic but inherently disturbing happened in Chengdu, Sichuan. On Tuesday (1/2) morning, a young woman was contemplating jumping off a six-story building. It took the police and firefighters five hours to talk the emotional distressed out of it and move […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: If part of your New Year’s resolution is to pick up smoking, well here is yet another reason why you have just made an awesome decision (as if prospect of tarred teeth, permanent bad breath and lung cancer aren’t enough to look forward to): Your new habit will help fund education for many […]
Read MoreTaipei Times reports on the sacking of Huang Liangtian, editor of Baixing magazine: The editor of a popular Chinese publication yesterday said that he was fired after reporting widely on corruption, driving home the fact that new relaxed rules on foreign journalists do not apply to locals. Huang Liangtian, 50, was sacked after transforming Baixing […]
Read MoreKenneth T posts on the Shanghaist blog: Chinese media reported yesterday that Guangzhou is set to become the first city in China to be recognised as ‘developed’ under World Bank standards, which define developed cities as those with a per capita GDP of over US$10,000. The capital of the Guangdong province, which has long been […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China’s financial regulators late Friday announced measures aimed at offsetting inflation and other risks associated with its surging economy — and the one-way flow of money into the country the growth has encouraged. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange said that starting Feb. 1, its citizens will be permitted to […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Carrying its recent tradition of outspoken editorial writing into 2007, Southern Metropolis Daily today offered backhanded praise for the State Council’s “constructive” relationship with foreign media and said the same relationship should apply to domestic media. The editorial, again a case of jieti fahui (or using the opportunity afforded by an […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Yesterday’s Economic Information Daily, a Xinhua newspaper, took a look at some of the problems involved in Internet regulation, and blog regulation in particular. The information is familiar, but this article illustrates the regulatory thicket by listing off a surprising number of government departments that have their hooks in online media. An excerpt: […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: A senior Chinese information official has outlined new measures to improve the presentation of China to the world’s media and to boost the flow of news to both local and foreign journalists. He was speaking after new regulations came into force at the start of the year which will allow foreign journalists greater […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China on Friday urged Iran to give a “serious response” to a U.N. Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on Tehran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran’s top nuclear envoy, however, warned that Tehran’s commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear technology will change if the country is threatened. The negotiator, Ali […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Q. We’re active travelers going to China and don’t want to just sit on a bus. Any advice? Nancy Reed, Luray, Va. A. Trade in your bus ticket for a pair of sturdy shoes: China is made for walking. “In every city, you can do a hiking or walking tour,” says […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Five Chinese telecommunications workers have been kidnapped by unidentified armed men in southern Nigeria. Gunmen seized the men near Port Harcourt in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where many similar abductions have taken place in recent months. The Chinese embassy in Abuja said it had appealed to the Nigerian authorities for help in […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The Karasu Bazaar, just 200 metres from Kyrgyzstan‘s heavily patrolled frontier with Uzbekistan, is a bustling warren of trading stalls fashioned out of metal shipping containers stacked one on top of another. The wares on offer range from bicycles to television sets and cosmetics. The haggling is done as it has been […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, another article about China’s promotion of Chinese language training through government-sponsored Confucius Institutes, this one focusing on concerns that the institutes are primarily channels to promote government propaganda: What do New York, Hawaii, Kansas, California, Mexico, France, Serbia, South Korea, Egypt, Australia, Russia, and Rwanda have in common? Almost nothing, […]
Read MoreFrom Courier Mail: China’s largest lake, holy to Tibetans but suffering from global warming and desertification, may vanish in two centuries even as the government pledges $870 million to stop it shrinking, Xinhua news agency said today. Desertification had been brought about by overgrazing around Lake Qinghai, in the remote western province of Qinghai, which […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The International Herald Tribune: China on Friday hailed the development of its Jian-10 fighter jet, aircraft engines and advanced air-to-air missiles as proof it had soared into the top levels of aerospace defense technology. China “has become the world’s fourth country that is capable of developing on its own advanced fighter planes, […]
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