From Keralanext.com: The decision by McDonalds to churn out Big Macs 24 hours a day in some of its restaurants in Beijing has proved an unexpected bonus for the capital’s homeless population this winter. It is becoming common for Beijing’s homeless people to use the fast food chain’s outlets as a respite from the biting […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via People’s Daily Online: As part of an ongoing drive to improve the efficiency with which state funds are used, China Monday published a list of seven sectors critical to the national economy and in which public ownership is considered essential. The sectors are armaments, electrical power and distribution, oil and chemicals, telecommunications, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News: Of all the questions facing Asia in 2007, none looms larger than what to expect from China. The last 12 months proved more than ever how much Asia is relying on its second-biggest economy. Japan may be back and the U.S. economy is by far the world’s largest, yet China’s 10 percent […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: Public humiliation as punishment sets off a debate over individual privacy and the limits of state intrusion. When police in booming Shenzhen organized a parade of 100 prostitutes, pimps, madams and their customers recently, there was little to suggest they were on shaky ground. Not only did it seem like a great […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China’s embrace of market forces in the past three decades has reshaped virtually every aspect of its people’s lives. Much of the impact has been positive. Hundreds of millions have escaped dollar-a-day poverty. The average Chinese citizen is wealthier, and enjoys far more economic and political freedom, than when overhauls […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: EBay Inc. plans to pull back from the fast-growing Chinese market by shutting down its main Web site in China and replacing it with a new site that would be largely run by a Beijing-based Internet company, say people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of trouble afflicting […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Like two sides of a coin, China may have gained a lot from its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the past five years, but at the same time it has lost a great deal. The rich have become richer and the poor poorer, with Chinese farmers and laborers bearing […]
Read MoreFrom Daiwei Blog: China Business Post released a list last week ranking China’s authors by income. From the start it was a coarse measurement – number of books in print over the last decade multiplied by the list price, and then adjusted for a standard 10% royalty. The report then notes that 10% is just […]
Read MoreFrom India Times: Beijing, followed closely by Xi’an, Kathmandu, Dhaka and New Delhi, have the dirtiest air of major Asian cities, according to pollution readings compiled by the Asian Development Bank and obtained during a conference. Air pollution in these cities is five to six times as high as levels that the World Health Organization […]
Read MoreSometime overnight, Biganzi/CDT has learned, Internet authorities ordered a blackout on the subject of freed ex-journalist Gao Qinrong [see earlier post]. “We’re not allowed to run the story anymore,” the editor of a major Internet portal said on Monday. “It [the ban] appears to be fairly comprehensive.” In Beijing, Gao’s name in Chinese (È´òÂã§Ëç£) no […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: When residents here in southern mainland China’s richest city learned of plans to build an expressway that would cut through the heart of their congested, middle-class neighborhood, they immediately organized a campaign to fight city hall. Over the next two years they managed to halt work on the most destructive and […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set up a Communist Party at the headquarters of its China operations, news reports said Monday. The move follows the success of China’s government-sanctioned union body in organizing unions at Wal-Mart’s 68 outlets in China. The party branch was set up Saturday at Wal-Mart’s China […]
Read MoreFrom Youtube: Do you still remember the two funny young students who lip-synch songs? Enjoy the following two videos: (The second one is a Beijing opera)
Read MoreFrom Unsettling Economics blog: David Landes recently published an article explaining why the West prospered more than China. You can read the whole thing and scroll down. Landes finds the usual ” that China lacked the proper market arrangements that makes capitalism work. But then he goes further, suggesting that the monasteries (hardly what one […]
Read MoreFrom Unsettling Economics blog: David Landes recently published an article explaining why the West prospered more than China. You can read the whole thing and scroll down. Landes finds the usual ” that China lacked the proper market arrangements that makes capitalism work. But then he goes further, suggesting that the monasteries (hardly what one […]
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