From Chicago Tribune: That inexpensive sweater exacts a hidden toll: dust-borne pollution that reaches America. Part one of a Tribune special report. Shatar the herdsman squinted into the twilight on the ruined grasslands where Genghis Khan once galloped. He frowned and called his goats. The wind tasted like dust. On the other side of the […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: The demand for Chinese goods is driving destructive logging around the globe. Part two of a Tribune special report. Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world’s busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo. Soon, […]
Read MoreFrom The Naked Gaze ËÇâÁúº blog: In one scene in Jia Zhangke’s (Ë¥æÊ®üÊüØ) The World (‰∏ñÁïå) (2004), the jealous Niu (Jiang Zhongwei) considers giving his girlfriend Wei (Jing Jue) a new Motorola cell phone with a GPS chip so that he can keep track of her whereabouts when he isn’t around (he is increasingly annoyed […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Earlier this year net giants Google and Yahoo came under fire from Human Rights Watch and Reporters Sans Frontieres, for their activities in China. But is the criticism warranted? In 2003 the Chinese police who had been monitoring message boards, blogs and personal emails, asked for the sign up account details of two […]
Read MoreThis week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series features Jim Yardley, China correspondent for The New York Times Beijing bureau. Yardley has reported for NYT for nine years and he has covered...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Bush administration, softening its tone of criticism toward China, reported to Congress on Tuesday that the Chinese had made strides in revaluing their currency, but that the progress was “considerably less than is needed.” The muted tone, in contrast with a finding more than six months ago, came in […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Taiwan has given approval for three semiconductor companies to invest a combined US$825 million in China, a sign Taipei is softening its long-standing opposition to high-tech investment by domestic firms in its political rival. A cross-ministerial committee late Monday approved a US$400 million investment by Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. and a […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A residential site in one of Hong Kong’s most exclusive addresses went under the hammer for HK$1.8bn ($231m) on Tuesday, far surpassing analysts’ expectations and breaking a record per-square-foot price set at the peak of the territory’s property bubble in 1997. Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong’s biggest developer, bought the prime […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: Chinese actress Gong Li says the biggest challenge she faces in Hollywood isn’t the language barrier, but rather tackling non-Chinese characters. Yet she likes the challenges. Gong has shot a series of English-language movies lately. She portrayed a Japanese escort in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” an ethnic Chinese money […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadialogue: China’s many varieties of grassland cover an area of 1 billion acres. They account for 41% of the country’s total area, and are 3.3 times the size of its cropland. Yet these vast grasslands cannot feed the animals they are home to, which together account for one-third of China’s livestock. Many years of […]
Read MoreFrom Koval.net: Who is at fault in this picture: [More pictures here] A) The bus driver steering with his knee, reading the newspaper, and simultaneously shouting into his cell phone B) The bicyclist, even small kids know “Size is always right”
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Five U.S. movie studios have won a court case against a Beijing shop accused of selling pirated copies of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “War of the Worlds” and other titles, the Motion Picture Association said Tuesday. The Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s Court ruled the Yu Hao Qing DVD […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: The government said Tuesday that it planned to nurture as many as 50 state-owned enterprises to become globally competitive companies while maintaining control of companies engaged in key industries. The government wants to continue its oversight over companies engaged in national defense, petrochemicals, power transmission, telecommunications, coal, civil aviation […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou may cap the number of migrant workers it allows in because of the “social problems” they bring, state media said. Government officials told the China Daily that one possibility was to stop some industries employing migrants. China’s economic boom has largely been driven by the cheap […]
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