From rediff.com (link): Fifteen miners were killed and 12 injured when an explosion ripped through a coal mine in east China’s Shandong province, the local government said on Friday. The blast occurred on Thursday in a colliery of the Zaozhuang Mining Group Co where the 27 miners were working, officials with the provincial work place […]
Read MoreFrom Global and Mail (link): China National Petroleum Corp. has set its sights on Canada’s growing oil sands and is planning a multi-billion dollar bid for a company this year, Norwegian-owned Upstream newspaper reported Friday. Among those it’s sizing up: Husky Energy Inc. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., the weekly said, adding that the Chinese […]
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Read MoreFrom MSNBC (link): News Corp has discussed withdrawing from Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong Kong-based Chinese television joint venture, in a move that would see Rupert Murdoch walk away from his most successful effort to break into China’s tightly controlled media market. People familiar with the situation said News Corp had talked about selling all […]
Read MoreFrom The Globalist (link): China is now the world’s fourth-largest economy and many developing countries envy its record of economic progress. However, China’s phenomenal growth is producing a big misconception in that it is viewed as a big winner of globalization. Three-hundred million Chinese are expected to migrate to the cities before 2020. Although it […]
Read MoreSunrise on the Lijiang River, Guilin, Guangxi Province; via impactlab.com.
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily (link): The China-Japan trade rose by 12.7% to reach 189.3 billion US dollars last year, hitting a new high for seven year in a row, according to statistics released by Japan External Trade Organization. The statistics show though trade volume between the two countries continued to surge last year, the growth slowed […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): The rise of the moneyed Chinese consumer may be old news. But the rise of consumers who insist on parking as close as possible to a doorway and who drink cappuccinos above a skating rink while their five-year-olds run circles around a potted palmetto has just started to hit commercial developers. […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): Anomalies abound when we think about China’s economic transition. How, for example, has it achieved record-beating growth while lagging badly on institutional reforms? Although an initial pioneer in embracing market reforms, China today has fallen behind most former Soviet bloc countries, its large […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth (link): [in translation] Today, there are more than 100 million Internet users in China. The Chinese Communist government is ambivalent in its attitude towards the Internet, and is showing many signs of awkwardness. On one hand, the lame-footed reforms require high economic growth and the main benefit of the Internet is that it […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Chinese police have rounded up at least eight democracy campaigners involved in hunger strikes that have spread to more than 16 provinces, a leading activist said on Friday. Most of those detained in the past 10 days had gone on hunger strikes to protest what they call increasingly violent harassment of dissidents […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Chinese collectors and corporations are using their new wealth to buy back some of the thousands of China’s art treasures that have been lost overseas, plundered in war and stolen by tomb robbers. One company has made this its specialty: the Poly Corporation, which started as an arms trading branch […]
Read MoreFrom PRNewswire.com (link): Business owners in China (the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan) are among the most stressed in the world according to the key findings of the Experian Grant Thornton International Business Owners Survey (IBOS) 2006. Taiwan, which ranks higher than other parts of China, is the highest globally with 89% of mid-size business […]
Read MoreAn old man with a message board condemning teenage pregnancy and corruption, via hexun.com.
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder, via San Jose Mercury News (link): The latest weapons in the tussle between China and Taiwan are cuddly and adorable and do little all day but chew bamboo and frolic. China has offered two giant pandas to Taiwan as a goodwill gesture. It has named the two pandas Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, a […]
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