From People’s Daily Online: China’s central bank is to encourage the development of microcredit in a bid to boost employment, said a deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China on Wednesday. Wu Xiaoling said at a meeting that the bank would establish a long-term re-employment system through facilitating microcredit. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Hu Jintao last visited India in 1984. Twenty-two years later, as the Chinese president renewed ties with his closest Asian rival, he saw an India that had changed considerably. Politically, India is no longer dominated by a single party but instead is governed by relatively stable if somewhat unruly coalitions. Economically the […]
Read MoreChinese blogger Liu Dingcai (ÂàòÂÆöÊâç) commented on Hu’s visit to India, translated by John Kennedy of Global Voices Online : China’s national chairman Hu Jintao arrived in the Indian capitol New Delhi on November 20 to commence the visit dealing with affairs between the two countries. On the 21st Hu Jintao met with Indian Prime […]
Read MoreJing-dong Yuan is research director of the East Asia non-proliferation program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and associate professor of international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict, 2003. Professor Yuan wrote on Asia Times on November 22, 2006: […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: Former physician Chen Xiaolan has made a name for herself exposing some of the many medical quacks in China, along with their bogus cures. Last year she persuaded government officials to close down a company in southern China that was selling a bogus remedy for fevers. Chen learned about the treatment, a bunch […]
Read MoreAnother classic work of journalism from citizen journalist Li Xinde (Picture showing Wu Bingjing (Âê¥ÁÇ≥Êô∂), right, ushering former President Jiang Zemin during a CPPCC (‰∏≠ÂõΩÊîøÂçè) conference years ago while Wu, now publisher of China Food Daily (‰∏≠ÂõΩÈ£üÂìÅÊä•), was a staff employee of CPPCC. Wu managed to photoshop out his CPPCC employee tag and bragged he […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The pro-independence president faces a recall bid Friday over charges of corruption and lying. Taiwan’s beleaguered President Chen Shui-Bian seems set to survive an opposition parliamentary bid to unseat him Friday – his third such challenge this year. But officials in Washington and Beijing are nervous. As the president fights […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: The mainland’s environmental problems are grave and local governments are bent on economic growth at the expense of the country’s ecology, according to the majority of respondents to a nationwide online survey. The survey, organised by the China Youth Daily and Tencent, China’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: Call me skeptical. But I get a bit nervous when I see stories like this (Xinhua version): LANZHOU, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — The first international forum on Lao Tzu, known as China’s “father of philosophy”, opened Tuesday in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China’s Gansu province.[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Tie Ning became president of the China Writers’ Association as the seventh congress of the organization met in Beijing earlier this week. The buzz in most papers was that this election is a promising step toward improving and revitalizing China’s literary sector. Can installing a new president in the CWA actually accomplish […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Spanish language blog Chinochano has written a post about China’s 56 official ethnic minorities, and included scans from a set of stamps that features all 56 of them. [Full Text]
Read MoreBeijing will set up monitor cameras in all of the Internet cafes within this year, said Jing Hua Shi Bao, a Beijing local newspaper. The monitors are to enforce the Internet cafe management and surveillance, constrain the spread of unhealthy information and spam emails, the newspaper said. The monitors will also be used to implement […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has disciplined officials for a chemical leak that contaminated a river and cut off drinking water and pledged action against those responsible for two other environmental disasters, state media reported on Wednesday. Hu Zhirong, Communist Party boss of Linxiang, in the central province of Hunan, received a disciplinary warning for initially protecting […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The creator of China’s largest pornographic Web site was jailed for life on Wednesday, state media reported. Xinhua News Agency said judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People’s Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they […]
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