From the Telegraph: Hopes for warmer relations between China and the Dalai Lama have been raised by news that 200 Chinese nationals attended a prayer meeting in India with the exiled Tibetan ruler. Tibet’s government-in-exile, based in the Indian hilltown of Dharamsala, confirmed yesterday that China had issued a growing number of visas to ethnic […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Despite the country’s booming economy China’s urban poverty has worsened according to the China Youth Daily which quotes dozens of economists. The economists told the paper that the proportion of urban residents living in poverty is now higher than that of rural residents. The poverty rate in China’s cities is six to eight […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: Just as Nazi Germany did in Europe during World War II, Imperial Japan made extensive use of forced labor across the vast area of the Asia Pacific it once occupied. Today, however, Japan’s government and corporations are dealing with the legacy of wartime forced labor very differently than their German counterparts. This […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via OhmyNews International: China has reported its eighth human death from bird flu and says researchers suspect contamination from dead poultry might be to blame for cases that have occurred in areas without outbreaks in birds. The latest death was a 20-year-old female farmer from the county of Suining in the southern province […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Three years ago, the Chinese capital unveiled its master plan for hosting the 2008 Olympics, with the city elders speaking of a commitment to hold the best Games ever. They promised an event taking place in spectacular venues spread across a green city and accessible by a new […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: This is a good, well-researched book. It could have been even better if the author, apparently carried away by the fascinating materials he displays in his narrative, had read his manuscript again and provided good, theoretical theses that would place his data in a broader perspective. Even so, US-China Cold War Collaboration, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: More than 103 million passengers were carried by the country’s railways from Jan. 14 to Feb. 10, reported the Ministry of Railways on Saturday. Beginning Jan. 29 this year, the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, is a time for family reunions. The Spring Festival travel rush began on Jan. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNet: Twelve miners were killed in a gas explosion and three others were reported missing at a coal mine in central China’s Henan Province on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Rescue operations continued into Saturday, Xinhua said, citing sources at the Henan Provincial Coal Industry Bureau.
Read MoreOn train #2334, from Xi’an to Guiyang, Jan, 19, 2006, via boxun.com.
Read MoreFrom USATODAY.com: Iconic Olympic venues are sprouting all over the Chinese capital. The national stadium is being woven in concrete and steel to resemble a bird’s nest. The “water cube” swimming center will soon be a giant box of blue bubbles. Communist planners are making China’s dowdy, gray capital beautiful for the 2008 Summer Games. […]
Read MoreFrom the San Jose Mercury News: It’s easy to condemn Internet censorship in China. Yet it’s hard to come up with an appropriate response. Technology companies in the United States can’t afford to stay out of China, the world’s most populous nation and almost surely destined to soon become the world’s largest economy. At the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABCNews.com: More than 6,000 people died in accidents in China’s coal mines and petroleum industries last year, with the proportion of those killed in major disasters rising sharply, the government reported Friday. The number of total fatalities from 3,341 coal mine explosions, fires and floods was 5,986, nearly level with the 6,027 […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China and India have emerged as the big winners — and Russia and Germany as the top losers — in the first round of a broad restructuring of U.S. diplomatic posts ordered by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice announced plans last month to shift hundreds of Foreign Service positions from […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: The hype about China’s future is unremitting. Indeed, there is a growing sense in some quarters that China is the future. There are two ways of highlighting this “fact.” One is to recount China’s rapid economic growth over the last two decades and to conclude that, with this […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Washington Post: China’s currency on Friday closed at its highest level since a July revaluation, capping a weeklong increase. The dollar closed at 8.0505 yuan on the automatic price-matching system, down from its Thursday close of 8.0537. The dollar opened at 8.0511 on Friday, prompting speculation that China’s central bank may […]
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