From AP via San Jose Mercury News (link) A Tibetan Buddhist nun who spent 15 years in prison on political charges was allowed to leave China and flew to the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. activist announced. Phuntsog Nyidron was released from prison in 2004 but her movements were restricted and she was refused […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily via Xinhuanet (link) China is revamping its fledgling financial sector by trying to create some blockbuster domestic groups that will be strong enough to compete against the foreign giants. The trend, which is likely to lead to companies with structures similar to those of the Western full-service behemoths, will test China’s risk-control […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): Imagine you’re a star to more than a billion people in the Chinese-speaking world. Your TV shows are beamed into millions of households every week, and your ego likes it. But step out of your Asian backyard, and everybody thinks you’re a closed-circuit television service. […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): Hundreds of thousands of netizens posted appeals and questions to Wen Jiabao on special bulletin boards prepared by main state media websites in the run-up to the premier’s press conference yesterday. The rare opportunity to make their voices heard by the premier attracted a wave […]
Read MoreFrom Marketwatch (link): Two of the most vocal Senate critics of China’s currency policy will travel to Beijing and Shanghai next week before deciding whether to proceed with legislation that would slap punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. “We really don’t believe [Chinese officials] understand our frustration in the Congress over this issue … This is […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): For a few moments during his annual press conference in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier and third-ranking member of the ruling Communist party, almost sounded like a pro-democracy liberal. “A people’s government should accept the democratic supervision of the people . . . Only if […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via CNN.com (link): China is training increasing numbers of Latin American military personnel, taking advantage of a three-year old U.S. law that has led to a sharp decline in U.S.-run training programs for the region, an Army general said Tuesday. Gen. Bantz Craddock, who oversees U.S. military operations in Latin America, said […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via Chron.com (link); China is refusing to take back an estimated 39,000 citizens who have been denied immigration to the United States and have clogged detention centers at federal expense, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Chertoff said that China last year readmitted 800 […]
Read MoreFrom the National Post (link): In the third instalment of our four-part Buy & Sell Roundtable with columnist Sonita Horvitch, most panellists agree that China is a market that bears watching as it rushes to grow its economy to keep up with demand for jobs. Norman Boersma of Templeton Investment Management wonders about the potential […]
Read MoreFrom the Economic Times (link): You’d be pretty happy if Yao Ming represented your brand, wouldn’t you? One of China’s most recognised and loved celebrities, and one of the few with global visibility as a basketball player for the Houston Rockets. So, if you were Gatorade’s marketing team and Yao was waving your beverage on […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): From the outside it does not look like much: the shell of a two-story brick building with scaffolding running up its sides and, on a drizzly winter day, a pair of construction workers kicking around in a courtyard littered with building materials. But 69 years ago the courtyard was […]
Read MoreThe following is a full list of Zhejiang Province delegates to this year’s annual session of the National People’s Congress, currently underway in Beijing. The names were posted on March 14 by moogee, along with lists of delegates from Hebei, Liaoning and Shanxi provinces, on the SOHO Xiaobao BBS. (Password = 4) (Translated by CDT. […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): China’s parliament is widely seen as a rubber-stamp for the Communist Party, but that doesn’t stop delegates and advisers from raising bold and sometimes wacky proposals. This year has seen calls for edible toothpicks, pleas to professional footballers to avoid prostitutes and proposed laws to legalize same-sex marriages and euthanasia.The 3,000 […]
Read MoreA coalminer working in Shanxi Province, via sina.com.cn.
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