From China Daily: In China, sometimes, a patient’s life depends on how much cash he has. Xiang Tao, a teenage university student in the southwestern province of Sichuan was left to die at a local hospital because he couldn’t pay the medical bills up front, the Xinhua News Agency reported on September 18. Xiang was […]
Read MoreWith the ongoing session of the United Nations General Assembly, observers are focusing on China’s increasing influence over a number of thorny issues facing the gathering. From a San Francisco Chronicle report about China’s relationship with Iran: With Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the center of high-stakes multinational negotiations, China is in the awkward position […]
Read MoreContinuing the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Prostitution-raided (“´ñ“Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Chen Lijun (ÈôàÁ´ãÈíß), Zhoushan City’s chief of customs. In fall 2000, Zhejiang police deployed a major maneuver to bust smuggler Dong Xinshu and his associates in Zhouhan City. Early in the morning, policemen went into Dong’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s police chief said the country faces rising conflict and crime as market-driven growth tears away old controls, a government Web site reported on Monday. Public Security Minister Zhou YongkangÔºàÂÖ¨ÂÆâÈÉ®ÈÉ®ÈïøÂë®Ê∞∏Â∫∑Ôºâissued the warning during a recent tour of central Hunan province, an epicenter of rural protest in past years. “Our country’s economic and social […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Hank Paulson, the new US Treasury secretary, heads to China on Tuesday to make common cause with the country’s economic reformers, who are on the defensive after sustained attacks on market economics and foreign investment. Mr Paulson will open his trip with an unusual gesture when he visits Xi Jinping, the party […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s bank regulator called on the country’s lenders to prepare for currency fluctuations, a day after Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said more flexibility will be introduced. The government’s plan to liberalize the foreign exchange market “heightens the need for more products by banks and corporations to hedge their currency risks,” Liu said […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Chinese men are fatter than they were five years ago, but overall Chinese are more physically fit, a government survey released Monday said. The survey of nearly half a million people between the ages of 3 and 69 found that 33.2 percent of adult males were overweight, a 1.3 percentage points higher than […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a Southern Weekend article in which several foreign correspondents in China are interviewed: (Editor: In China, foreign reporters (especially western reporters) are the focus of attention. Here, we relate to you some stories about what happened between this unique group and the unique country known as China). On September 4, the name […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: In the dense humidity of northern Cambodia, where canoes are the common mode of transportation, a foreman from a Chinese construction company directs local laborers to haul stones to the ramp of a nearly completed bridge. Nearby, engineers from the China Shanghai Construction Group have sunk more than a dozen […]
Read MoreA magazine vendor in western Beijing, by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreFrom AP, via the China Daily: African countries are increasingly looking to borrow money from China because the flow of funds from the World Bank and other donors has been slow and contain too many conditions, several African finance ministers said Sunday. China’s economic surge over the past decade has boosted demand for oil and […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project (includes full translation of an editorial in the Henan Commercial News): Over the weekend domestic media questioned proposed measures that would mean deportation of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Beijing before the 2008 Olympic Games. The measures, reportedly announced by Beijing 2008 Environmental Construction Headquarters officials on September 14, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In the summer of 1998 at a picnic in Silicon Valley, Eric Xu, a 34-year-old biochemist, introduced his shy, reserved friend Robin Li to John Wu, then the head of Yahoo’s search engine team. Mr. Li, 30 at the time, was a frustrated staff engineer at Infoseek, an Internet search […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth blog: The data does not surprise me as Google pays little attention to the unique needs of Chinese users. The sad part for Chinese users is: Baidu’s top search results are pretty much bought and paid for by advertisers; so, the average netizen is not getting an honest cyber-portrait of the best site […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China.org: Two Chinese monks will be visiting Nalanda, seat of Buddhist teachings, in November to revive the traditional Sino-Indian cultural ties, the Nav Nalanda Mahavihar director Dr Ravindra Pant told Xinhua Thursday. Nalanda, known for its rich cultural past, is located some 60 kilometer from Bodh Gaya in north Indian […]
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