From RFA, via AsiaNews.it: Chinese police confiscated wreaths and floral tributes sent to the family of Lin Mu during the ex-Communist leader’s funeral service that was held yesterday in Sanzhao crematorium in Xian. Police officials monitored the whole ceremony and took note of the participants, who were mostly democracy campaigners from all over China. Lin, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Sun: At dinner the other evening at Le Cirque, one of the city’s top dining spots for the rich and famous, a money manager there estimated that up to 8% of the patrons were from China. Add a couple of announcements over the past week ” a $1 billion Chinese retail […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via TIME.com: China appealed for “coolheadedness” on all sides in the North Korean nuclear crisis Friday, amid signs that an exasperated Beijing is willing to get tougher with its traditional ally. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appealed to North Korea to return to stalled international talks over its nuclear program without condition. Concluding […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The Yangtze River and Pearl River estuaries have been listed as newly registered “dead zones,” according to a study released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Dead zones, or low oxygenated areas in the world’s seas and oceans, are places where nutrients from fertilizer runoff, sewage, animal waste and the burning […]
Read MorePhoto: Entertainment at the Formula One grand prix in Shanghai, via flickr
Read MoreFrom the Australian: AS we wait for a possible second North Korean nuclear test, it is well to know how close the US has come to military conflict with North Korea in the recent past. In April 2003, George W. Bush told Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer of how deeply he had considered taking military […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Votes cast for presidential contender Michael Sata in the recent election suggest a growing discontent among Zambians over the effects of increased Chinese involvement in their country. In Beijing, however, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, Chong Quan, defended China’s growing economic ties with Africa, saying Chinese […]
Read MoreChinese bloggers will be asked to register their blogs with their real names and ID numbers, said 21st Century Business Herald, a Chinese newspaper. A similar real registration regulation on cell phone users will be released within this year, another Chinese newspaper reported earlier. The Ministry of Information Industry has asked the Policies and Resources […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A corruption probe in Shanghai appears to have widened into examining the city’s sporting world after state media reported on Wednesday that the head of Formula One racing in China had been called in for questioning by investigators. Yu Zhifei, who runs the company that manages Shanghai’s F1 circuit, was “assisting investigations” […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s economy grew 10.4 per cent in the third quarter, slowing markedly from the first half of the year and showing the government’s controls on investments and land use are taking effect. The slowdown means the government is less likely to introduce further tightening measures, such as interest rate rises, until the […]
Read MoreA netizen, after research, compiled 12 categories of “Guinness records” of corrupt officials who keep mistresses, posted at xici.net’s Reporters Home section, via Southeast Express newspaper: Quantity: Mr. Zha...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s top statistician was sacked after anti-corruption investigations implicated him in the Shanghai pension fund scandal, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics (ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÁªüËư±ÄÔºâsaid on Thursday. Qiu Xiaohua ÔºàÈDZÊôìÂçéԺ■who announced a new “Happiness Index” this year to include living conditions, the environment and salary — was dismissed as chief of the […]
Read MoreThe Chinese National Flag is a red flag with five yellow stars. In the official interpretation, the design uses red as its background (symbolizing the blood of the soldiers who were lost in wars) and bright yellow for its stars....
Read MoreA man rides his bike away from a market in Yantai, by china.sixty4
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Shanghai — Rumors that Shanghai is planning to build a 700-meter-high skyscraper were refuted Wednesday by Lujiazui GroupÔºàÈôÜÂÆ∂Âò¥ÈõÜÂõ¢Ôºâ, a leading real estate development company in the economic hub. The height of the skyscraper – which will be the third landmark tower in the Lujiazui financial zone – and its architect, are yet to […]
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