From China Daily, via scotsman.com Educated, overworked and looking for love, members of China’s new rich gathered yesterday for what was touted as the country’s first dating cruise – open only to men worth at least two million yuan ($132,000). The cruise, organised by a matchmaking website, illustrates a growing phenomenon: well-educated and increasingly affluent […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s economy is unlikely to slow “sharply” in 2007 because rising consumer spending and industrial production will underpin growth, said Yao JingyuanÔºàÂßöÊôØÊ∫êÔºâ, chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics(ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÁªüËư±ÄÔºâ. “The government’s policy to boost consumption will show better results next year,” Yao said in an interview at a business forum in Beijing […]
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Read MoreFrom The Guardian: A leading Aids campaigner in China has vanished, feared detained by police, after the authorities ordered him to cancel a conference that was to have looked at the state’s responsibility for infections and blood safety. Wan Yanhai, head of the Aizhi advocacy group, appears to be the third prominent activist to have […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: China said on Friday that a government audit found that more than $900 million was misappropriated from the nation’s $37 billion social security fund in just the latest sweeping government fraud to be uncovered in the last two years. The government did not announce any arrests or assign blame for the […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via International Herald Tribune: A Chinese court has executed a migrant worker for a rampage that left three dead and highlighted resentment over China’s growing gap between rich and poor, state media reported Saturday. Ai Xuqiang bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with an iron bar on Sept. 11 last year […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week, via A Glimpse of the World: American importers have long answered criticism of conditions at their Chinese suppliers with labor rules and inspections. But many factories have just gotten better at concealing abuses Tang Yinghong was caught in an impossible squeeze. For years, his employer, Ningbo Beifa Group, had prospered as a […]
Read MoreQin Hui (˶ÉËæâ) has been called the “big crocodile of the mainland media industry, though he founded his sprawling empire on a simpler form of entertainment. Before Qin sank millions made “stir-frying” stocks into IPTV, telecommunications, movie theatres, newspapers and satellite TV networks like Sun, Qin opened Passion (§©Â±±‰∫∫Èó¥), the night club whose range of […]
Read MoreFrom RConversation: Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a number of instances in which China-focused blogs appear to have had a substantial impact on the international news media’s coverage of China. A couple of examples are Roland Soong’s ESWN on the Foxconn and Taishi Village stories, Jeremy Goldkorn’s Danwei on “Ayigate,” etc. There […]
Read MoreFrom PakTribune: Chinese President Hu Jintao has said that China regards Pakistani nation as its strength and strategic partnership between the two countries would be further extended in the future and the friendship and...
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Over the last week in China two entertainment scandals have topped headlines and chatrooms. Today, in one of the first editorials approaching the scandals from a larger social perspective and pointing out blindness to more fundamental issues raised by the cases, such as sexual abuse and harassment, Southern Metropolis Daily criticized […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: When African nations began urging the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia in June to prop up its embattled government, an unlikely nation stepped forward to support their call for action: China, which had long been wary of such interventions by the United Nations. China’s emergence as an economic superpower has forced the […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: Beijing this week registered pollution one level below hazardous, closing highways. …In fast-moving, sophisticated Shanghai, China’s biggest city and its financial hub, hundreds of thousands of householders are using solar panels to heat water. Meanwhile, in the capital Beijing, plans are well advanced to use renewable energy for a big chunk of […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: Just a week before China’s Three Gorges Dam became operational on June 6, Seminar Coordinator Mike Monahan and International Studies Dean Ahmed Samatar received a phone call in Shanghai from Professors Jim Von Geldern and Wang Ping: “We’re being arrested. Don’t worry. We’ll check in every half hour. If we don’t, something’s […]
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