From Globe and Mail (link): China steps up surveillance of AIDS patients Security boosted before parliament meets. As it prepares for the annual meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament, China is launching a crackdown on one of its poorest and most vulnerable groups: people infected by the AIDS virus. Security agents have swooped down on the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Financial Press: China is to accelerate military spending in 2006, the government said on Saturday amid renewed tension across the Taiwan Strait, a potential regional powder keg. Beijing would spend 14.7 per cent more on defence in 2006 than it did last year, a spokesman for the national parliament said. China’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian via (link): Taiwan’s President has infuriated Beijing, sparking fears of escalation into conflict, writes China correspondent. Any person who gets on the wrong side of history is doomed to failure. – China’s President and Communist Party Secretary Hu Jintao, February 28, on Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian. THE war of words across the […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press (link): A prominent human rights lawyer was detained by police on Saturday as China continued a crackdown on protests ahead of the opening of parliament. Gao Zhisheng said plainclothes policemen and state security agents accused him of taking pictures of them. “They started pushing me and trying to twist my arms […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): One difference between China’s remote west and the rest of the country is what people choose to put in their stomachs. Noodles, not rice, are the favorite dish, none more so than the steaming bowl of beef noodles named after this decaying provincial capital on the Yellow River. So […]
Read MoreA old man watches a girl applying make up, Hebei province; via Xitek.com
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog (link): The ‘Two Meetings’ are gatherings of the representatives from all over the country of the People’s Congress the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) that take place in Beijing annually in March. State-owned news agency Xinhua’s Chinese home page has commemorated the start of the ‘Two Meetings’ yesterday with a massive […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times (link): A series of official statements from government agencies has led to speculation that last year’s macroeconomic control measures, intended to cool excessive growth in China’s real estate sector, will soon be relaxed. For example, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the central government organ in charge of macroeconomic control […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News (link): The human rights group Amnesty International is calling for China’s central government to overturn a southern province’s plan to apply the death penalty for robberies committed with violence. The plan comes as debate over the death penalty in China intensifies. Amnesty International condemned southern China’s Guangdong province, after a high court […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): Premier Wen Jiabao will outline a renewed focus on China’s countryside and set a cautious economic growth target of around 8 percent for 2006 in a national address Sunday, economists said. As is customary, Wen will deliver a working report on the opening day of the annual session of the National […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily (link): In the face of China’s rapid economic development, people have a wide range of opinions about “the rise of China.” Some believe China is already a risen power, others think it is in the course of rising and while some dismiss the “China rise” as sheer overstatement. In my opinion, […]
Read MoreWorld efforts to reduce global emissions are prompting China to modernize its energy production methods. China emits almost 10 times more mercury pollution than the U.S. (1000 tons/year vs. 158 tons/year) due to China’s reliance on coal burning generators. From Planetsave. com Friday, 03 March 2006 China is one of the region’s most wasteful economies. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): The Chinese government said Thursday that Vice Premier Huang Ju, one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s secretive ruling council, had been hospitalized and was recovering. It did not specify the illness. The statement by a government spokesman at a news conference was the first […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Rural development and currency reform are the hot issues at China’s annual session of parliament opening this week, but some delegates have quirkier matters on their minds. Li Yinhe, a sociologist and member of the advisory body to parliament, plans to submit a proposal on same-sex marriage, aiming to end discrimination […]
Read MoreFrom the Art Newspaper (link): China and Italy have signed a treaty aimed at preventing the looting and illicit export of antiquities. The agreement was signed in Beijing by Shan Jixiang director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Italian Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione to mark the launch of the year of Italy in […]
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