From Bloomberg: China is drafting an anti-monopoly law that might force companies such as Microsoft to give up leading market shares in the world’s fastest-growing economy. Under the law, local or overseas companies with more than 50 percent of China’s market share for any product will be investigated. ……The Chinese government is strengthening laws to […]
Read MoreFrom Wenxuecity: The following photos were taken in the 1980s when Deng‘s economic reform were just launched. Ferry pier: People buying mooncakes for mid-autumn festival:
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Britain has offered a secret deal to Italy under which it would back Rome’s demand for punitive tariffs on cheap Chinese shoes in return for Italian support for the UK’s long-hours work culture. The classic example of European Union horse-trading has dismayed retailers, who claim a deal with Italy could force Britain […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters China: U.S. consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. has suspended sales of its SK-II skincare line in mainland China, pending clarification from the quality watchdog over traces of possibly harmful metals. The decision to halt sales of SK-II – a line of beauty products made by P&G in Japan – came as […]
Read MoreFrom CNNIC: China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released its 2006 China Blogging Report on Sept. 23. The report said the number of Chinese bloggers reached 17.5 million at the end of August, and active bloggers (with at least one update each month) reached 7.70 million. Blog readers were more than 75 million. The report […]
Read MoreZhu Jianling (Êú±Âª∫Èôµ), the Beijing correspondent for the Taiwanese newspaper China Times, published an article on September 22nd, “Will a Thai-style Coup Happen in China?” The following excerpts were translated by CDT: What does the Thai coup mean to China? After watching the news on CCTV, a local party school in China debated this issue […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Share sale documents filed late Friday by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China confirmed the bank’s plan for what could be the world’s largest initial public offering. Hong Kong’s stock exchange gave permission on Thursday for the bank to proceed with the sale of shares as part of an […]
Read MoreFrom VOA, via China Confidential blog: Foreign investors and media companies are awaiting word on how China plans to enforce a set of restrictions it announced earlier this month on the foreign media. The restrictions are widely viewed as an attempt by the government to keep control of the country’s growing, lucrative media market. Analysts […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: People may think that professors, especially those at famous universities, are wealthy, but they say they are rather poor. Assistant professor at prestigious Peking University A Yi made it clear his monthly salary of 4,768 yuan (US$601) was not enough on his online web log and claimed there would be no way […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: It’s been another deadly year so far for China’s coal miners – though not as deadly as 2005. And for officials who invested in coal mines and colluded with owners to ignore safety violations, the first eight months of 2006 have put hundreds under investigation. Mine accidents in China killed 2,900 people […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: …My experience is that the objects of National Security (NS) work far exceed the Wikipedia definition. The cases of NS harassment and infringement of which I’m aware cover a very wide scope. Some social group workers, volunteers, lawyers, painters, photographers or independent documentarians, artists, freelancers, reporters, writers, poets, scholars, student society […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Every weekday this summer, Rose Lei drove her daughter, Angelina, 5, to a golf complex at the edge of central Shanghai for a two-hour, $200 individual lesson with a teaching pro from Scotland. But now that the school year has started, little Angelina will have to cut back on the […]
Read MoreFrom NPR: For listening: Download file China is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, but Tibet remains one of its poorest spots. Beijing pumps billions of dollars into Tibet each year, an infusion that’s partly intended to stabilize the Himalayan region. Tibetans and ethnic majority Han Chinese are constructing a dam on the Lhasa River, […]
Read MoreNaomi Li interviews Ma Jun, the man behind the China Water Pollution Map, an impressive online water survey that aims to catalogue and make public levels of water pollution–and the companies responsible for it–throughout China: NL: There are 2,500 offending companies named on your website? MJ: Yes. I hope those companies we have named will […]
Read MoreA policemen warns against carrying cigarette lighters into a forest in the Helan Mountains in Inner Mongolia, by Zhaohua Li
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