From the New York Times: Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices, a human rights group said Sunday. At least 10 people were injured when the police broke up the demonstration at Guang’an City No. 2 People’s Hospital, […]
Read MoreWhen the government instituted an extensive new spokesperson system, in the wake of the SARS crisis, official media swooned. No one ever really expected a panacea of openness, of course. But people did expect ministerial spokespersons to forge more confusion than clarity. Some days, though, precisely the opposite has proven true. With ministry officials popping […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily : A workshop to train senior auditors from African countries opened Sunday in south China’s island province of Hainan. As a consensus reached by China and African nations at the just-closed Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the workshop will greatly enhance the exchange and cooperation between the auditing departments […]
Read MoreFrom Xin Hua: People around China held a series of activities Sunday to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution…Solemn commemorative ceremonies were held in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Shanghai. At Dr. Sun’s hometown of Guangdong, more than 2,500 people from all walks of […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: Beijing is the world’s worst city for air pollution. Sixteen of the world’s 20 most-polluted cities are in China, according to the World Bank. Satellite data from the European Space Agency reveals that Beijing and nearby northeastern provinces have the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide, causing respiratory problems and about 400,000 premature […]
Read MoreFrom AP: About 2,000 people mobbed a hospital in southwest China where a young boy died after his grandfather was sent away to raise money for the child’s treatment. At least 10 people were injured in fighting with police, a human rights organization said Sunday. The boy, who was about 3 years old, became sick […]
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Read MoreIn Metropolis Magazine, writer Zha Jianying writes about the reconstruction of a garden in the Forbidden City and the challenges of protecting China’s cultural heritage: At a May ceremony inside the Forbidden City, Hong Kong real estate tycoon Ronnie Chan”whose China Heritage Fund (CHF) bankrolled the rebuilding of the Jianfugong Garden”profusely thanks the Chinese government […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Hong Kong’s harbour is why Hong Kong exists – its protected deep waters, ringed by the rock of Hong Kong island and the Kowloon peninsula, have offered haven and passage to world shipping for more than 160 years. But at midnight on Saturday, the clock tower on the Star Ferry pier in […]
Read MoreReuters reports on News Corp.’s latest ambition in China: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is looking for a local partner as it aims to launch its popular MySpace Internet social network in China, is in early talks with prominent local blog companies Bokee.com and BlogCN.com, industry sources said on Sunday. On a visit to Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The home entertainment arm of News Corp film studio Twentieth Century Fox will on Monday announce a distribution partnership with China’s biggest legitimate DVD producer, Zoke Culture Group. The deal marks the first serious effort by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to sell its DVDs in China, a large and fast-growing market […]
Read MoreFrom The National Bureau of Economic Research: “While the Foreign Invested Enterprise sub-economy is still only 20 percent of China’s total economy, it nonetheless accounts for over 40 percent of China’s recent economic growth if FDI inflows level off (as appears to have happened in 2005), the sustainability of Chinese growth in the 7-10 percent […]
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Read MoreStayed tuned ahead for Beijing’s war on dogs, and rabies, from Shanghai Daily: A campaign will begin on Thursday to check that Beijing’s citizens have licenses for their dogs, do not have more than one dog per household and are not illicitly operating pet businesses in China’s capital, local police have announced. On Wednesday afternoon, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices, a human rights group said today. At least 10 people were injured when police broke up the demonstration at Guang’an (ÂπøÂÆâ) City No. 2 People’s Hospital, […]
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