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A girl waiting for her boyfriend in front of Shanghai shopping mall, via www.xitek.com.
Read MoreReport: A democratic China could be ‘great risk’ to Asia – Arthur Bright
From The Christian Science Monitor (link): An Australian think tank suggests democracy might lead to a hostile, populist Beijing. A democratic China may bring as much harm to Asia as it does good, according to a new report from an Australian defense think tank. In an Australian Strategic Policy Institute report, economist David Hale warned […]
Read MoreThe Huananxincheng Story – ESWN
From EastSouthWestNorth blog: An incident happened on February 15, 2006 in Guangzhou. Shortly afterwards, there was a systematic attempt by the immediately affected persons to post the story onto the Internet and keep it going. This story then drew the attention of many more people and it simply will not die. Here is the translation […]
Read MoreChina’s Spitting Image – Der Spiegel
From Spiegel Online (link): Hosting the Olympics means doing a lot more than building a few stadiums, as Beijing is finding out. On Wednesday the Chinese authorities launched a campaign to clean up the way people in the city behave. One of the biggest challenges is to ban public spitting. In preparation for the 2008 […]
Read MoreThe high price of illness in China – Louisa Lim
From the BBC (link): Dr Liu Quan trudges 20km (12 miles) a day along Sichuan’s muddy mountain paths on his rounds. A village doctor for the past 55 years, he was just 15 when he started practising as a third-generation herbalist. In the 1970s he received simple training under Chairman Mao’s programme to send “barefoot […]
Read MoreHundreds held ahead of NPC – AFP
From AFP, via the Standard (link): Hundreds of people have been detained as authorities crack down on dissent before the National People’s Congress, petitioners and a rights lawyer said. Police raided hostels near the south Beijing train station Tuesday night and rounded up more than 400 people who had come to air their grievances through […]
Read MoreBeijing steps up Koizumi bashing – Hisane Masaki
From Asia Times (link): With no sign of a thaw in chilly relations with Tokyo, Beijing appears to be isolating Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a bid to discredit him and his policies. This shift in China’s Japan strategy has become increasingly evident in recent weeks and is expected to translate further into action […]
Read MoreInaccurate Report Sparks Fears China May Split Net – Sumner Lemon
From PCWorld.com (link): Western media was abuzz Wednesday with reports, citing an English-language story on the Web site of the official People’s Daily newspaper, that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names as part of a bid to split China off from the Internet. There was just one problem: the story wasn’t […]
Read MorePress Freedom in China Symposium: Summary – metanoiac
From METANOIAC! a weblog from China: I just got back from a symposium on press freedom in China that was part of Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum. Columbia President Lee Bollinger was the moderator, and lots of media elite from both China and the US were on the panel. Among them were Dorinda Elliott, who […]
Read MoreHK blogger fills East-West, North-South gaps – John Ruwitch
From Reuters (link): More than 8,000 readers a day clicked on Roland Soong’s blog last year and the number keeps rising, but he isn’t doing it for money or fame. “I wouldn’t know what to do with my time otherwise,” the soft spoken author of EastSouthWestNorth said in a recent interview over a Cantonese lunch […]
Read MoreThe China angle – Meenakshi Iyer
From the Hindustan Times (link): There is more to US President George W Bush’s visit to India than what meets the eye. It’s not just the civilian nuclear deal, nor is it the “so called” friendship that the political pundits talk about. According to leading Bangladesh daily Daily Star, “The US is a South Asian […]
Read MoreDeteriorating environment challenges China’s rural development – Xinhua
From Xinhua (link): A concerned Li Chunlong can not understand why his farmland does not yield as much quality corn as before. The 55-year-old farmer lives in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, which is dubbed “the Granary of China” for its large areas of fertile and productive black soil. However, a recent research report said that […]
Read MoreArms sales to China resume – Yaakov Katz
From The Jerusalem Post (link): Israeli arms developers are once again marketing their wares in China despite the 2004 crisis that developed with the US over a sensitive arms deal, Defense Ministry Director-General Ya’acov Toren revealed on Wednesday. “The military industries have returned to working on defense exports with China and other countries,” Toren told […]
Read MoreQ&A: ASIA: India, China, and the United States: A Delicate Balance – Esther Pan
From The New York Times (link): President George Bush travels to India March 1 for the first time in his presidency, highlighting the increasingly important role New Delhi is playing in world affairs. Many analysts see a stronger U.S. relationship with India as part of a longer-term effort to check China’s influence in Asia. India’s […]
Read MoreDid China Create Its Own Domain Names? – Stephen Lawson
From PCWorld (link): ICANN denies reports that China established its own Internet domains. China’s Ministry of Information Industry has established a set of new top-level and second-level domain names, according to People’s Daily Online, the Web site of the official People’s Daily newspaper. The new domain name system took effect today, according to the report. […]
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