From keralanext.com: The health of an ethnic Mongolian Chinese political prisoner has seriously deteriorated, his wife said on Monday, pleading with the outside world not to forget her husband and keep pressuring Beijing. Hada was tried behind closed doors in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region in 1996 and sentenced to 15 years in jail for […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China’s auto exports hit a record high of 340,000 units in 2006, more than double 2005’s figure, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC). Sedan exports topped 90,000 units, a 200 percent increase on the previous year, said an MOC official. Customs statistics show that China’s vehicle exports surged 120 […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, on Monday used New Year remarks to stress his aim of building a “mutually beneficial, strategic relationship” with China in a further sign that improving Sino-Japan ties will be a priority of his premiership. In a statement in which he also placed emphasis on his goal of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The New York Times: China, which is aggressively seeking overseas energy assets to run its booming economy, said Sunday that one of its biggest conglomerates had bought the Kazakhstan oil assets of a Canadian company for $1.91 billion. The CITIC Group of China bought the oil assets of the Nations Energy Company […]
Read MoreFrom Chinanews via China.org: A French cosmetic maker conducted a survey in Shanghai recently, finding that averagely a woman in Shanghai uses no less than 20 different cosmetics every day, the top figure in the world. Miss Xue, who works in a foreign bank in Shanghai, earns a monthly income of some 10,000 yuan (US$1,200), […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: Because of the grass quality, golf courses require several times more water than normally used. And to keep the grass up to golfing standards, pesticides and other chemical preparations are used heavily on it. Relevant statistics show that over 50 chemical preparations are applied to golf course grass a year. And some seep […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: The exchange rate of Renminbi, the Chinese currency, is expected to appreciate by some five percent to one U.S. dollar for 7.44 yuan, according to Xinhua Economic Analysis Report released Monday. The report projected that the pace of RMB appreciation would be faster in the first half of 2007 than in the second […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China.org: The Chinese government has launched a 2.6-billion-yuan (US$333 million) project to protect Shanhaiguan Pass at the eastern end of the Great Wall, the Ministry of Culture has announced. The one-year project involves two sections: 1 billion yuan for on site building repairs, and 1.6 billion yuan for the protection […]
Read MoreBeijing traffic congestion comedy via Danwei: According to trustworthy rumor (source: http://dazhe.haomaiba.com), Beijing will completely ban the old and middle-aged from the streets starting on 1 January 2007. To relieve transportation pressures in the city, to continue the positive social trend of restricting small vehicles, motorcycles, and electric bicycles, and in response to insistent requests […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: “My ideal picture,” says the marketing director of Galanz, the largest microwave manufacturer in the world, “is of a Chinese peasant coming home after a day in the fields and cooking supper in a microwave.” Until recently, most people – including Chinese peasants – would have laughed at such a […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the International Herald Tribune: Workers at foreign-funded companies in China need more protection, a top advisory body said, in the latest bid to give such employees more power at international companies and factories. A report issued by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference said a growing number of […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China’s President Hu Jintao said Sunday that it will be vital in 2007 for his government to spread the country’s growing wealth among its have-nots, in a New Year’s speech that also toned down the rhetoric against rival Taiwan. Hu’s New Year’s speech last year included an admonishment against those who seek Taiwan’s […]
Read MoreFrom AFX: A property bill that will give a historic boost to the concept of private ownership in China will be submitted to the national legislature in March, officials said. Members of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee said at the conclusion of a week-long review of key legislation that they also will submit a […]
Read MoreFrom keralanext.com: Shanghai reported an average temperature of 18.2 degrees centigrade in its urban areas this year, the warmest year since it started to record weather information in 1873. The temperature is 0.1 of a degree centigrade higher than the last record in 2004, a source with the municipal meteorological bureau said on Saturday. The […]
Read MoreFrom AP via USA Today: Internet services in China will not be back to normal until mid-January after being disrupted by a powerful earthquake off Taiwan, a news report Sunday quoted the country’s biggest telephone company as saying. Internet and telephone services in China and many parts of Asia were cut by Tuesday’s quake, leaving […]
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