From Japan Focus: The New York Times on October 12, 2006 featured an article describing fierce opposition by some US investors and employers in China to modest improvements to Chinese labor legislation. I have just visited China with labor lawyers and industrial relations experts who have worked to advance these proposed changes in China’s employment […]
Read MoreFrom Zee News: Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, on Saturday said the Indian Navy is not Pakistan or China-centric, but was capability driven and committed to developing capabilities to protect the maritime interests of the nation. He dismissed threats from the Chinese nuclear submarines, saying it was not in their interest to be […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China faces an environmental crisis that threatens to wipe out much of the gains of three decades of economic growth, one of China’s most outspoken environment officials said in comments published on Saturday. “China is dangerously near a crisis. The country’s enormous environmental debt will have to be paid one way or another,” […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Gates, who is awaiting confirmation to replace Donald Rumsfeld, was unequivocal in his support for Washington defending Taiwan from Chinese attack. The man picked to be the next US secretary of defense has warned that the US must be prepared to engage in a military conflict with China over Taiwan, according to […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: With its ranks in disarray and its President embroiled in scandal, Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party is pinning its hopes on next week’s heated mayoral election in the southern city of Kaohsiung. To the boom of fireworks and the blare of high-volume slogans from a pair of loudspeaker trucks, Chen Chu storms into […]
Read MoreShenzhen’s streets were the scene of a good old-fashioned public shaming this week. To launch a two-month-long crackdown on prostitution, police trotted out more than 100 men and women accused of working as pimps, madams, street girls and their johns. Local press like Southern Metropolis Daily caught the proceedings in the Shenzhen community of Shazui, […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: China is laying plans for a huge expansion of the country’s beleaguered railroad system, and some analysts expect significant upside for railway stocks. Analysts say Shanghai-listed companies such as Daqin Railway and China Railway Tielong Container Logistics should benefit from a five-year industry blueprint unveiled in October by the Ministry […]
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Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: China’s technology companies are closing the gap with their foreign rivals in productivity, positioning themselves to become a bigger threat to multinationals both in China and abroad, according to a survey by McKinsey & Co. and China’s Tsinghua University. The survey suggests that Chinese tech companies are gaining ground on […]
Read MoreThe latest on Murdoch’s efforts to launch a Chinese version of MySpace, from the Independent: Rupert Murdoch, the septuagenarian media mogul, is planning to appoint his wife, Wendi Deng, to the board of MySpace China, the latest overseas offshoot of the social networking website he bought last year. The couple have been seeking local partners […]
Read MoreA man workig in a brick kiln in a village in Shandong , via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has relaxed restrictions on foreign journalists in the period leading up to and during the 2008 Olympics in a sign the games may at least temporarily soften Beijing’s treatment of its critics and the media. Liu Jianchao at the foreign ministry said on Friday foreign journalists would no longer require the […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: …… The estimated 30,000 government censors behind the world’s most elaborate censorship programme”known as the Great Firewall of China by detractors, and as the Golden Shield by the...
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Those outside of China often imagine hordes of Internet savvy Chinese Web surfers scouring the Internet for cracks in the Great Firewall, avidly downloading precious snippets of information blocked by the government to disseminate among the circle of politically-aware Chinese cybernauts. The hope is that the Internet is having a transformative effect on […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: China announced it would temporarily ease restrictions on foreign media ahead of the 2008 Olympics, allowing journalists to report more freely across the country, including in Tibet. However, the new rules, which will take effect from January 1 next year, will expire in October 2008, after the Olympic Games are […]
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