From Shanghai Daily: A slowdown in the United States economy will likely put a drag on global growth next year, but economists say Asia and Europe should remain resilient amid signs of healthy consumer demand. Even as a cooling US housing market weakens Americans’ appetites for foreign-made electronics, clothing and other exports, the swelling ranks […]
Read MoreFrom San Francisco Chronicle: WTO membership boosts trade, eases some restrictions, but some say more is needed The land of the bicycling commuter is now the world’s second-largest auto market. Chinese citizens, long forced to choose between storing savings at home or in a troubled state-owned bank, can open accounts at Citibank or one of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: A new luxury hospital for new mothers will open in Shanghai‘s Putuo district during the Christmas season. Shanghai Youth Daily reports the hospital will provide the same services as a five-star hotel with a first-class nursing service. Facilities will include a golf course, tennis court, swimming pool and yoga gym. The […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: China’s most popular search engine has compiled several top 10 lists for 2006, such as top 10 movies, top 10 TV series, top 10 fastest increasing search words, etc. Most of these are either based on the results in their search engine or statistics from their BBS posts. The top male pop star […]
Read MoreGoogle the name of journalist Gao Qinrong in English today and the top results show a smattering of reports from overseas rights groups and a few news outlets – some noting his early release from prison in Shanxi province earlier this month (see AFP), but most predating it. Now Google Gao in Chinese (È´òÂã§Ëç£) . […]
Read MoreFrom HongKong Films blog: The Chinese have always referred to a place within their history as “Jiang Hu (ʱüÊπñ)” (Gong wu – in Cantonese). This age is a part of China’s mythical past, and is the time when heroes, anti-heroes, and villains feature prominently. The term, “Jiang Hu”, which literally means “rivers and lakes”, but […]
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Read MoreChina Daily’s report says, “Chinese men’s basketballers won the nation’s last gold medal at the Doha Asian Games on Friday, increasing the number of golds won by the Chinese to 165, the second-best record behind 183 at the 1990 Beijing Games.” At the closing ceremony of the 15th Doha Asian Games Chinese artists were singing […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist Blog: There appears to be a push (or maybe a slight nudge) to save an old house on Taojiang Lu that for four years in the 1940s was occupied by Soong Ching Ling, also known as Madame Sun or Sun Yat Sen‘s wife. The two story villa, which is very close to O’Malley’s, […]
Read MoreFrom Angry Chinese Blogger: While the Chinese legal system has often been criticized for being unjust and opaque, there remain a number of cases each year that stand out from among the rest as being particularly indicative of “Justice with Chinese characteristics”. One such case is that of 20 year old land reform activist Chen […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Times: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. That’s the best way to describe Hank Paulson‘s just-concluded trip to Beijing, ostensibly to persuade the Chinese to do something to whittle down their huge trade surplus with the United States. The secretary of the Treasury and his colleagues ” the delegation included the commerce, labour, health and human […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: At a tiny courtyard mosque tucked down a back alley in China’s Muslim heartland, Wang Shouying leads other Muslim women in prayers and chants. …Religion was banned during Mao Zedong’s radical Cultural Revolution but faith made a comeback in the 1980s, increasing the numbers of Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims and […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Having failed to stop North Korea testing a bomb, Beijing now has to make the diplomatic process produce results China has the most difficult task of all the participants in the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program that begin Monday in Beijing. As the chief patron of the North Korean regime […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, hosting its first major energy summit on Saturday, urged top oil consumers to join together in the face of resurgent producer power and sought to paper over differences on how best to achieve energy security. Ministers from the United States, India, Japan and South Korea — nations that consume nearly half the […]
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