From CBS News: The typhoon season has cost many lives and billions of dollars worth of damage in China. But, as Celia Hatton reports, it could have been worse if China hadn’t installed a simple early warning system. [Click to see] See also China Text-Messages Millions on Typhoon by AP. Technorati Tags: China, typhoon
Read MoreFrom RConversation blog: Congratulations to China’s bloggers and journalists! While certain influential journalists in the U.S. can’t seem to shake their tiresome bloggers vs. journalists arguments Chinese bloggers and journalists are working together to defeat enemies of free speech. Way to go!!
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu via Hexun.com, translated by CDT (A case study that alerts people who have or want to do business in cities even like Shanghai): Xiao Jilin is the head and chairman of a plastic toys and products factory in Chongming (island) County of Shanghai. But Jindu company was run by his deputy Lu […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In an effort to gain Chinese cooperation on international economic issues, the Bush administration is pushing for China and other developing nations to get more power in the global institution that has played a central role in easing myriad financial crises since the end of World War II. But the […]
Read MoreFrom New Economist: I warned of this back in February (see From ‘bra wars’ to ‘shoe wars’) and now it seems increasingly likely: a ‘shoe war’ with China and Vietnam. Clearly, the European Commisison has learned nothing from last year’s bra wars debacle. Helena Spongenberg of the EU Observer website reports Brussels pushes ahead on […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China revised upward the value of the country’s economic output and its economic growth for 2005, adding weight to Beijing’s recent warnings about economic imbalances. Gross domestic product grew 10.2% last year from a year earlier, higher than the originally estimated rate of 9.9%, the National Bureau of Statistics said. […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China’s government has been throwing up some new hurdles for foreign investors in recent months, including increased scrutiny of foreign-backed mergers and proposed restrictions in areas from banking to retailing to manufacturing. It’s not a wave of popular anti-foreign sentiment, of the kind that was on display, for example, after […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Communist Party of China (CPC)on Tuesday announced it is requiring all leading cadres to provide details of their personal affairs, including listing their investments, changes in their marital status and whether their children marry foreigners. A circular providing details of reporting requirements was issued after a meeting on Tuesday of the Political […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China’s central bank plans to tighten monetary policy next month as it struggles to prevent the economy from overheating, but this time it will target foreign-currency deposits, according to an internal document issued by the People’s Bank of China. According to the document, seen by Dow Jones Newswires, the central […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: Over 100 members of Hong Kong’s entertainment industry, including action superstar Jackie Chan, attended a televised event Monday, denouncing the publication of a pop star’s photos when she was changing clothes at backstage. Chan said the secretly taken photos of Gillian Chung Yan-tung, part of the Canto-pop duo Twin, would encourage […]
Read MoreA talk show, Focus 580, interviewing Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA on China: Topics touch on China’s two camps of people, rural and urban, emerging...
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said a law proposed by senators to restrict Chinese imports may not be the “silver bullet” that will save American jobs and narrow the nation’s trade deficit. “I don’t think that legislation would necessarily create a single job or add one more dollar to U.S. exports,” Schwab said […]
Read MorePhoto: An elderly couple have lunch on the stoop in front of their modest home in Jingdezhen, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities across China have stepped up detentions and surveillance of key rights activists amid growing calls for the release of Beijing-based lawyer Gao Zhisheng. “Gao Zhisheng was taken away by unidentified men in plain clothes who gave no identification nor any reason for his detention while he was on a trip […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A patriotic Internet game featuring heroic Chinese and designed to wean the young off their addiction to violent foreign games is still not ready for release a year after development begun, state media said on Tuesday. Unlike the more popular games, where players have to slay dragons, fight […]
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