From the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: Just days before a Chinese firm announced a $2.3 billion investment in a Nigerian oil field last month, President Hu Jintao warned that China has to rein in surging energy use that has made it one of the world’s biggest oil importers. The announcements underlined the dual tracks […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate, via The Taipei Times: Writing in Shanghai in the 1930s, China’s great essayist Lu Xun(È≠ØËøÖ) once observed: “Today there are all kinds of weeklies. Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.” Muckraking broadsheets […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: Here is the official statement as published in Beijing News report on February 3, 2006: [In translation] “From Chinese New Year’s Eve up to now, the total number of fires is slightly more than in the same time period last year, as the number of fires caused by fireworks has increased slightly. […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Criminal activities by migrant teenagers have been increasing in South China’s Guangdong Province due to a lack of proper education within families and schools, according to a recent survey. The survey, conducted by the Guangdong Provincial Prevention and Control of Juvenile Crime Organization, found that migrant teenage criminal cases accounted for nearly […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: An executive with the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation said the gigantic dam of the multi-function water control facility would be finished nine months ahead of schedule. Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of the corporation, said by May this year, the workers would have built the half-done […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A lawyer helping residents of Guangdong’s Taishi village in their struggle to oust their headman was attacked by strangers yesterday after visiting rights activist Yang Maodong, who is believed to be under government surveillance. Tang Jingling said he suffered no physical injury. But Mr Yang, who […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Online: CHINA’S export-processing factories have been hit by a wave of worker unrest raising the question of how this will affect long term prospects for the mainland’s growth model. Last year saw more than 1,000 strikes involving plants with more than a hundred workers each in the fastest-growing province of Guangdong alone. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China will see a greater development and use of renewable energy in the years to come as the country has adopted policies to encourage greater efforts in this regard. The Renewable Energy Law of China, which came into effect on Jan. 1 this year, stipulates that development and use of renewables such as […]
Read MoreFrom The Nation (Bangkok): If China is to be seen as a responsible and honourable superpower whose “meteoric rise” is no cause for alarm in Southeast Asia, China needs, among other things, to refine its Burmese policy. Burma has been Southeast Asia’s focus of attention in the post-Cold War era – the largest source of […]
Read MoreDuring the Spring Festival gala on CCTV, viewers were asked to vote via SMS for the names for the pair of Pandas that the Chinese government has offered to Taiwan. Below are three news reports on the voting, followed by some critical comments from Chinese netizens: From The Shanghai Daily: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are two […]
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy: ……nothing about Google has ever been this fluffy. As Andrew Brown recently reported on openDemocracy, Google collects mountains of IP-address-linked data about the search behaviour of all its...
Read MoreThe Pentagon has just issued its QDR (Quadrennial Defense Review Report (PDF)). The following text is under the heading of “Shaping the Choices of Countries at Strategic Crossroads”: Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time […]
Read MoreFrom The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Chinese energy company PetroChina has reached an understanding to buy almost a tenth of Burma’s huge gas reserves. Those gas dollars will most likely be squandered on guns rather than education and healthcare. Many more dollars will probably flow as a pipeline plan, road, and railway projects suggest Beijing is […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via A Glimpse of the World: These are dark days for China’s media as the communist government, increasingly nervous about social unrest, intensifies control over what can and cannot be reported to the public, shutting down newspapers and sacking journalists who question its authority. But analysts and journalists say that the tighter it […]
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