With the UN Environmental Programme opening a conference today in Beijing to address water pollution in Asia, Reuters summarizes a UN report on the impact of population growth on East Asia’s oceans: Growing populations and booming economies are threatening fragile coastal areas in East Asia, and the region’s coral reefs could face total collapse within […]
Read MoreIn a two-part series for China Dialogue, the dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design writes about a trip to Tianjin, takes apart the environmental costs of China’s urban planning nightmare, and examines a possible solution: Intersections, even though signalised, presented a terrifying game of “chicken”. Cars, trucks, and buses wove through an equal […]
Read MoreLi Erliang, Editor-in-Chief of China Youth Daily, a newspaper owned by China Youth League, was sacked, Hong Kong newspaper Wen Hui Po reported. Li was replaced by Chen Xiaochuan, editor of Freezing Point, a weekly additional edition of the newspaper. Li’s removal wasn’t elaborated by China Youth Daily, and the reason behind this is also […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Chinese government last week appeared to lift its block on the English-language version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, an unexpected move that comes almost a year to the day when access was first denied. The Chinese-language site, however, remains blocked within China. “We are pleased to see the change, […]
Read MoreFrom china.org.cn, via China Elections and Governance: Wu Zhengen goes about his work as he always does. The deputy Party secretary of the fourth production team of Zhoujiazhuang Township in Jinzhou City, Hebei Province, is busy in his office, making phone calls to his team members to confirm their work assignments. Mounted on the wall […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population. From next year, parents in the countryside will get an annual payment when they reach the age of 60, provided they have only one child, or […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s wealthiest lavished 500 million yuan ($63 million) on Hennessy X.O spirits, Porsche sedans, South African diamonds and other luxury goods during a show in Shanghai, double the value of transactions a year ago. Top Marques, a four-day show that has its origin in Monaco, attracted 12,000 visitors last week with exhibits of […]
Read MoreBelow is a letter from 100 people, led by Liu Xiaobo, appealing for the unblocking of Century China (www.cc.org.cn), an online community of China’s intellectuals. For many days since July 25, 2006, Chinese intellectuals and other netizens have been living in misery because the Web site that had been their spiritual home for six years, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The only declared candidate in the race to become Hong Kong’s next chief executive has identified the territory’s conservative business ¬≠community as the primary obstacle to democratic reform and says his long-shot candidacy will “expose the absurdity of [Hong Kong’s electoral] system”. “The main obstacle in the way of universal suffrage in […]
Read MoreAs China’s foreign-exchange reserves and money supply growth continue to increase, pressures on interest rates and exchange rates are mounting. Read the story from The Wall Street Journal: China’s foreign-exchange reserves, the world’s largest, rose to just below $1 trillion at the end of September, while money-supply growth eased, according to data issued Friday. As […]
Read MoreWang Guangmei, wife of Liu Shaoqi, former president of People’s Republic of China, died in Beijing on Oct. 13, Singtaonet said. Wang’s death has still not been publicized in China. The legendary former first lady was jailed and tortured for 12 years after her husband was removed from power by Mao Zedong in the Cultural […]
Read MoreA lot of coverage today of the U.S. efforts to get China on board the sanctions against North Korea. From the New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asserted today that China would help enforce a United Nations Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on North Korea, including a provision to interdict goods to […]
Read MoreA Tibetan pilgrim prostrates himself from Sichuan Province to Lhasa, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has launched a fresh drive to clamp down on bad English in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Previous attempts to wipe out Chinglish – the mistranslated phrases often seen on Chinese street signs and product labels – have met with little success. Emergency exits at Beijing airport read “No […]
Read MoreFrom The NewsWeek: Zhou Rengen knows the value of online advertising. His Web site, yyzs.net, is one of the largest online shopping sites for pharmaceutical products in China. Zhou needed to be at the top of everyone’s search list. In 2004 he signed a contract through a sales agent to register with Baidu, China’s leading […]
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