From AP, via Aljazeera.Net: Japan has revealed that one of its diplomats, who committed suicide in Shanghai, had been set up with a woman by Chinese intelligence agents in a blackmail scam to obtain classified information. Describing the scandal, Taro Aso, the Japanese foreign minister, said: “They approached him, offering to arrange a sexy woman […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Having already impressed the world with the creation of its glittering, international-quality infrastructure, the erstwhile Middle Kingdom has now turned its attention to transforming its universities into world-class institutions. “Our government realizes the connection between a nation’s overall power and the quality of its higher education,” said Dr Weiying Zhang, assistant president […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The controversy over news media censorship in China continued Friday as two editors who had been removed from a feisty weekly journal, Freezing Point, issued a public letter lashing out at propaganda officials and calling for free speech. Meanwhile on Friday, a group of prominent scholars and lawyers who had […]
Read MoreFrom MercuryNews.com A business school marketing professor would probably say it was “poor timing” that Google decided to launch a corporate blog in Chinese a day before the Mountain View company testified before Congress about its practices in China. Clearly intended to project an image as a cool and hip place to work, the opening […]
Read MoreFrom HindustanTimes.com: The Berlin International Film Festival is providing a snapshot of the changes in Asian cinema, as China seeks to emerge as a new movie powerhouse while Hong Kong struggles to keep up with its reputation. Once known as the Hollywood of the East, Hong Kong’s previously prolific film industry has watched its market […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Communist Party officials who run this grimy steel town on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia had big ambitions but little finance. So they called in one of China’s most successful capitalists, Yan Jiehe, and let him handle almost everything. Yan used the same plan he has applied across China’s vast […]
Read MoreFrom Asian Tribune: The killing of three Chinese Engineers in the restive province of Balochistan might overshadow the forthcoming visit of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to China. Musharraf’s visit scheduled for February 19-23 will herald the events organized in connection with the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China. […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: Representative Tom Lantos, whose district includes part of Silicon Valley, has been an outspoken critic of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco regarding their businesses in China… Rep. Lantos (D-California), a Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, told the companies in a House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday, “Your abhorrent activities in China […]
Read MoreThe following was posted by Tingyue Laoban 1 (Âê¨ÊúàËÄÅÁè≠1) on a BBS hosted by Sina.com (translated by CDT). The original, including a scan of the school receipt, is here. High school tuition in a poverty village Qianshan village in Anhui province is one of the 2006 national poverty villages. But the tuition is astonishingly high […]
Read More(originally posted 2/16/06; updated 2/17/06 12:00 pm PST) From Reuters: The official China Youth Daily decided on Thursday to revive a provocative weekly section closed by censors last month, but shunted aside the two editors who made it a standard-bearer for combative journalism. Communist Party officials in charge of the newspaper, the mouthpiece of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog: With the world’s second largest economy in purchasing power parity and the resource base to modernise its military, China is well on the road to becoming the first new superpower of the 21st century. Rising China is not simply going to be a remake […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The increasingly tense trade relations between China and the US have taken a new twist, with Beijing warning that threats from Washington could damage both countries. “Imposing pressure or sanctions to solve problems between the two will not be beneficial for China-US trade relations and will not be beneficial for the United […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: `Instead of threatening to abolish Taiwan’s unification guidelines, the Chen government or its successor should drop the requirement that China must be democratic before unification can happen.’ In spite of recent local election setbacks, President Chen Shui-bian (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) called on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Yu Shyi-kun to stick to the […]
Read MoreFrom SmartMoney.com: IT SEEMS DISRESPECTFUL to say that there was anything good about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But even tragedies can have unexpected positive consequences ” and this major tragedy had a major positive consequence. Thanks to 9/11, what is potentially the greatest economic growth story in history has been set in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: China and Iran could sign a multi-billion dollar agreement on developing a major oilfield in Iran as early as next month, the semi-official Caijing Magazine said on its Web site. The magazine cited Mu Shuling, an executive at Sinopec Corp. <0386.HK>, as saying a delegation of the National Development […]
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