From the Los Angeles Times: High atop a snowy Himalayan pass, a lonely road linking Asia’s two giants reopened last month after a 44-year diplomatic roadblock. Leaders in India and China hailed the event as a sign of the growing rapprochement between neighbors that have eyed each other with distrust since a 1962 border war. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China Net: 15,000 migrant school children face an uncertain education after 37 schools in Beijing’s Haidian District were ordered to close their doors, leaving their students facing uncertainty with no certain places for the upcoming term. The local education commission issued a circular ordering 37 schools catering to migrant workers’ […]
Read MoreAsia Media reviews a recent documentary “Mardi Gras: Made in China“: At its core, Mardi Gras is about the production of pleasure in the global economy. It clashes American excess and consumerism with the hardships of factory workers in China. This provocative documentary from first-time directory David Redmon investigates the working conditions of the mostly […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s government may issue its first high-speed wireless license within six months, an executive said, opening up a market with more subscribers than the combined populations of the U.S. and Japan. “We can’t drag on any longer if China expects to provide 3G services by the 2008 Olympics” in Beijing, Zuo Xunsheng, chief […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China Construction Bank Corp. agreed to buy Bank of America Corp.’s Hong Kong and Macau branches for HK$9.7 billion ($1.24 billion), the largest overseas acquisition by a Chinese lender. The takeover will give China’s third-largest bank 17 outlets with HK$7.4 billion of net assets, the Beijing-based company said in a statement today. Construction […]
Read MoreFrom tcsdaily.com: Between 1990 and 2002 more than 174 million people escaped poverty in China, about 1.2 million per month. With an estimated $23 billion in Chinese exports in 2005 (out of a total of $713 billion in manufacturing exports), Wal-Mart might well be single-handedly responsible for bringing about 38,000 people out of poverty in […]
Read MoreFrom Raymond Zhou blog: Hengdian(Ê®™Â∫ó), Zhejiang Province: When Hollywood built a full-scale film set of a 1930s geisha district on a field in a Los Angeles suburb, Xu Yong’an thought it could have been done in his hometown in East China’s Zhejiang Province. The story of “Memoirs of a Geisha” is set in Japan, but […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Chinese State Councilor Zhou Yongkang said here Thursday that China will further cooperation with Singapore on the non-traditional security field. “The cooperation between China and Singapore in maritime security and combating terrorism, transnational crime, illegal immigration is of positive significance to the public security in the region as well as the […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Shanghai has opened mainland China’s first shelter for internet addicts to help them bridge the gap between their virtual world and dysfunctional family homes. The inauguration of the halfway house yesterday highlights growing government concerns about the explosive growth of the web in China, where one in eight young net users are […]
Read MoreZhao Yan, a New York Times researcher who just received a three year sentence in China.
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Whenever I think of the word SARFT, it always seems to be attached to ‘ban’. Or, SARFT is a ban, and bans are SARFT, one and the same. Fang Jun once made a list. In just two short months, SARFT released five or six bans, impressive in the way that officials […]
Read MoreFrom Li Xinde of Yulun Jiandu (People’s Daily and other web sites carried the multi-photo essay but most photos don’t show up or posts have been deleted.) Want to work in a place where you can work out and swim a bit? You should apply for a job at the Tanggu District government. The thing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China jailed a New York Times researcher for three years for fraud on Friday, his lawyer said, one day after a blind human rights campaigner was convicted in what appears to be a clampdown on dissent. But the Beijing court dismissed a charge of leaking state secrets against […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Twice in the past month, China has supported tough UN Security Council resolutions on the world’s most dangerous problems. These were difficult decisions and they surprised many observers. In truth, they were the culmination of a decades-long process that has seen China’s assertiveness at the UN follow the same growth […]
Read MoreOn Google Video is a documentary titled “Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion.” A review on the site says, “An extraordinary and passionate documentary about the plight of these oppressed people whose religion remains one of the wonders of the world with its mind training, nonviolence and compassion.” View it in its entirety here.
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