From China Law Blog Great guest commentary in today’s Wall Street Journal by Thomas Hout, a senior adviser at Boston Consulting Group‘s Hong Kong office. It is entitled, “Innovation, China Style,” and it effectively gives lie to those who believe China will eventually “take over the world.” According to Mr. Hout, China is having considerable […]
Read MoreFrom Boston Globe: One of the world’s oldest nations is getting older. China’s population of 1.3 billion is graying rapidly and the country, which now has about 146 million senior citizens, will have almost 290 million by 2025 — nearly the entire population of the United States — according to a study released last month […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A Chinese government spokesman has accused Taiwan’s president of trying to ruin ties with the mainland. President Chen Shui-bian, whose party favours Taiwanese independence, used his New Year speech to insist that the island was not part of China. But a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing hit back, saying […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Because of the earthquake in southern sea of Taiwan on 26 of December, 2006, two major internet cables in the Pacific Ocean have been broken. Hong Kong is a major affected areas and many bloggers and internet users are forced to live through a few days without internet at year end. […]
Read MoreThe Daisann blog dissects storied Apple Daily political columnist Mr. Lee “Eight Directions”: Today’s Apple Daily adds a devilish bit of gossip that I missed at yesterday’s protest event It seems that when Alan Leong arrived at the LSD demo, dear Mr. Long Hair offered the fellow a choice between riding in the wheelchair or […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: Beijing set an ambitious 245-day “blue sky” target for this year after beating the annual good-air-quality day target in 2006. The city had fulfilled the annual target of 238 days for 2006 by December 24, and saw three more days of blue sky before the New Year’s Day. The target […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Bao Tong gave his first government-approved interview to Reuters, marking a major breakthrough in press freedom that is part of a relaxation of restrictions on foreign journalists in China that started January 1, thanks largely to the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Human Rights in China president Liu […]
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Read MoreSoutheast Asia Research Institute fellow Zhuang Liwei, of Jinan University, recently offered a debunking of all the chatter about China’s rise in the pages of Southern Weekend. The scholar argues that, for China, the real rise is still a goal waiting to be realized. Beijing Review provides a summary of Zhuang’s arguments: Rising in peace […]
Read MoreFrom Shenzhen Daily: A young Canadian man walking onto the stage at Kingglory Plaza to compete for the female role of Lin Daiyu in the TV series “A Dream of Red Mansions” became the most attention-grabbing event in Shenzhen on Christmas Day. Of more than 10,000 people competing for the acting roles in the city, […]
Read MoreTwo reports from Xinhua reveal Chinese death on roads and in fires in 2006: Whole report of death on roads: The number of road traffic deaths in China was 89,455 in 2006, 9.4 percent fewer than that in 2005, and the first time below the 90,000-benchmark since 2000, according to the Ministry of Public Security. […]
Read MoreFrom DNA India: As Britain continues to attract major foreign investment – including for takeover of British companies by overseas investors – new millionaires from India, China and other parts of the world are driving property prices in London. …Property developers are now working on a four-tower complex near Hyde Park, central London, which will […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: At least 81 journalists were killed in 2006, the highest annual toll in more than a decade, with Iraq again the deadliest place for journalists, the media watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders announced Sunday. In its annual report, the group said 32 media assistants were also killed in 2006, at least 871 reporters […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Channel Newsasia: Taiwan’s independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian has insisted that the island’s sovereignty lies in its own hands, rejecting Beijing’s “one-China” policy in his New Year’s message. China and Taiwan split in 1949 at the end of a civil war but Beijing still considers the island part of its territory, to be […]
Read MoreThe central state-run news agency rings in the New Year with an upbeat article on new rules, effective today, which allow foreign journalists to travel and conduct interviews without wading through ponderous application processes. The story refers to a Reuters article about an ethnic Mongolian political prisoner, datelined Hohhot, that was among the first to […]
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