Photo: A woman on the street in Shanghai, by madameshutterfly.
A woman on the street in Shanghai, by madameshutterfly.
Read MorePioneers have opened a window in China – Julie Meyer
From The Observer: Recent adverse criticism of Google – particularly the lengthy attack last week in the financial journal Barron’s – has cost the internet search engine’s share price more than 25 per cent of its value over the past week. How significant is this? I’ve met Google’s founders and have followed its fortunes closely […]
Read MoreChina’s virtual cops pinpoint web dissent – Mure Dickie
From the Financial Times: With their big blue blinking eyes and their quirky personal websites, there is no denying the cuteness of the cartoon cops at the front line of China’s battle for control of the internet. But the role played by Jingjing and Chacha, the animated online icons recently introduced by police in the […]
Read MoreChina ‘blackmailed’ Japanese diplomat – AP
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 MoreChina hunts abroad for academic talent – Pallavi Aiyar
From 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 MoreFired Editors of Chinese Journal Call for Free Speech in Public Letter – Jim Yardley
From 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 MoreGoogle launches China blog a day before China hearing – Elise Ackerman
From 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 MoreChina emerging as new movie powerhouse – IANS
From 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 MoreIn China’s Frontier, a Fortune Is Made – Peter S. Goodman
From 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 MoreKilling of engineers to overshadow Musharraf visit to China – Iqbal Hussain Khan Yousafzai
From 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 MoreQ&A: Congressman Tom Lantos – Red Herring
From 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 MoreHigh school tuition in a poverty village is 95.5% of income – Tingyue Laoban
The 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 MoreChina to reprint weekly – Benjamin Kang Lim and Chris Buckley (Updated)
(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 MoreThe coming age of the self-interested superpower – Francois Heisbourg
From 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 MoreFears of growing US trade rift with China – Jon Cronin
From 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 […]
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