From Guardian Unlimited: On the northern outskirts of Beijing, an army of migrant workers is twisting and welding a 100,000-tonne tangle of steel into a stadium-sized bird’s nest. A short sprint away, the scaffold wrapping of a vast swimming centre has been partly peeled away to reveal a translucent bubble-like coating. Everywhere thickets of cranes […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Taipei Times: “Come on, make a wish to Chairman Mao,” said a woman to her two young children as they bowed to a 6m bronze statue of Mao Zedong (ÊØõÊæ§Êù±) in his home village of Shaoshan. “We come here every year to pay our respect — Chairman Mao is a great […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Houston Rockets center Yao Ming believes more of his Chinese team mates need to gain experience abroad for the national team to be competitive at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, state media reported on Tuesday. China finished a disappointing 11th at the world championships in Japan after being knocked […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Beijing chief organizer Liu Qi will back the freedom of media to report “unimpeded” around China during the 2008 Olympics, Britain’s Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell said on Tuesday. Jowell said she had raised the issue of freedom of access for journalists “in the strongest possible terms” in a […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. International Cinemas unit is planning to build movie cinemas in China’s wealthiest city with Shanghai Shimao Co., according to a statement by Shimao. The two companies have reached a preliminary agreement to build a so-called film metropolis in Shanghai, according to a statement to the city’s stock exchange, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China denied reports North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will visit the country to discuss the possibility of resuming the six-nation talks aimed at dismantling the reclusive state’s nuclear program. “As far as I know there is no such arrangement for him to visit,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a briefing […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China will place stricter curbs on land use and raise related taxes and fees for land used in construction, as part of its latest tightening efforts to correct imbalances in the economy’s rapid growth. The guidelines issued yesterday by the State Council, China’s highest executive body, aim to strengthen macro-controls […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: North Korea’s test firing of a volley of missiles in July has disappointed its traditional ally China, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said in Beijing on Tuesday. [Full Text] See also Reuters’ U.S., China Mull Warning N.Korea Against Nuclear Test: China and the United States have […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, another story about the dangers of industrial pollution in China: Thousands of villagers from China’s northwestern province of Gansu have turned up at a hospital with lead poisoning which they say was caused by a local smelting plant, the South China Morning Post said on Wednesday. Quoting the Huashang Daily, the newspaper said […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Although Beijing frequently cracks down on cyberspace activity, censoring search engines such as Google and filtering information, the Internet remains one of the freest platforms on which Chinese citizens can communicate and bond. The rising popularity of Web justice, sometimes referred to as Internet hunting, is relatively new, but it […]
Read MoreOn the eve of his visit to Europe, Premier Wen Jiabao held an interview with foreign media inside Zhongnanhai. The full text of the interview is here, via The Times. Reuters reports: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged progress on sustainable economic growth, currency reform and democracy on Tuesday but stressed change would be gradual rather […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel: They represent workers without rights, autistic children and the environment. The Communist Party eyes them suspiciously, but allows them to exist — so long as they make no political demands. China’s nascent non-governmental organizations are beginning to help those left behind by the country’s economic boom. Death wafts from the White River, which […]
Read MoreFrom NPR: The Nanjing Bridge was once hailed as a triumph of Chinese engineering — the longest road and railway bridge in the world. Now it has a different type of notoriety: The span, which crosses the Yangste River in Nanjing, China, has become a popular suicide spot. The bridge is unbearably hot and noisy […]
Read MoreFrom Sina Website via Jin Qian Website, translated by CDT: Several Beijing websites held a seminar at the well-known revolutionary town Zunyi(Èŵ‰πâ). Seminar participants took a tour of the revolutionary monuments, and commemorated the spirits of red army heros. Guizhou Province Propaganda Ministry deputy chief Yao Yuan announced the opening of the “China Long March […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: The Chinese government continues to rein in overseas speculators in the country’s property market, as it is now requiring foreigners to get approval before they send funds out of the country that were earned from selling houses. According to a circular on management over foreign investment in China’s housing sector, […]
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