From Financial Times: Beijing has for the first time appointed foreign institutions to manage the overseas investments of its $40bn state pension fund, in a move that is expected to further strengthen China’s clout in international capital markets. The National Social Security Fund, established in 2000 by the central government as a pension fund of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: If anybody ought to benefit from the indictment of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian‘s wife’s slush funds scandal, it should be Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, who as the main opposition candidate would be a shoo-in to take over the presidency in March 2008 from a badly flagging Democratic Progressive Party. But Ma is […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: In late October and early November, Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) tried to re-launch friendly talks related to the territorial disputes of the Spratly Islands, a series of specks that from their location at the southern end of the South China Sea remain crucial to the region’s geostrategic […]
Read MoreThe third and fourth generations of Communist Party leaders have featured the technocrats. The fifth could showcase the legicrats – a klatch of apparatchiks who got law degrees, though often nominal or rudimentary, in the...
Read MoreFrom IPS: The evening light dances on the glazed pink tiles of the shapely buildings around the ancient Idkah mosque and in the enfolding dusk the site evokes tales from the ‘One thousand and one nights’. But the illusion is fleeting — none of the buildings in this spot, except for the revered mosque, is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese court jailed two managers of a state-owned coal mine on Wednesday for negligence two years after a gas explosion killed 166 miners, Xinhua news agency said. The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days […]
Read MoreFrom A Glimpse of the World: China did not qualify for the 2006 World Cup, yet there was almost fanatical enthusiasm for the games in Beijing. Because the matches were played in the middle of the night, many Beijingers slept during the day. This gave a brief respite from Beijing’s notorious traffic jams, and the […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reported the Employment Fair in Zhengzhou on November 19, 2006. “A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished r√©sum√©s and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post: A leading news magazine has been ordered to clean up its act by the Communist Party’s propaganda department and the government’s media regulator after the publication defied a central directive to refrain from reporting politically sensitive historic events, media sources said. Without specifying the magazine’s “defiance”, the Publicity Department […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Huang Wenchuan, a sophomore engineering major at Shenzhen University in South China’s Guangdong Province, couldn’t wait to enlist in the army in an autumn nationwide recruitment campaign. Huang was among an increasing number of applicants from universities nationwide to join the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) this autumn. And the army has […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Residents of at least two regions in China’s poorer provinces of Gansu and Guangxi say they are being poisoned with lead and zinc waste being pumped into their water supply by local mining groups. Jiang Wenjian, a resident of Guo’an village in Guangxi’s Teng county, told RFA’s Cantonese service that around […]
Read MoreFrom Apple Daily via the EastSouthWestNorth blog: In Futian district, Shenzhen, more than two hundred people were hauled into the street and put on trial in front of the public. Does this remind you of the Cultural Revolution days? Over the past three weeks, the public security bureau had been sweeping through the karaoke bars, […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China’s state-sanctioned Catholic church said Tuesday that it plans to ordain another bishop without approval from the pope, despite renewed diplomatic efforts to end long-standing hostility between China and the Vatican. The ascension of Wang Renlei, vicar general of Xuzhou diocese in southern China, will mark the third time in seven […]
Read MoreA couple manually processing the buckwheat in Shanxi province , via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The leader of a Chinese Christian sect and at least 11 of his subordinates have been executed for ordering the murder of members of a rival religious group, as authorities sought to suppress big underground churches that they deemed cults. Xu Shuangfu, the founder of the Three Grades of Servants […]
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