From the Yahoo Blog on News.com: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft–criticized for acquiescing to Chinese censorship rules–say the U.S. government should be doing more to get China to loosen up. In lieu of sending executives to appear before a Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing on Wednesday, the companies sent statements. “In addition to common action by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Mrs Song never had much interest in politics but when factory pollution began poisoning well water and killing crops, the young mother got angry. After an industrial park housing several chemical plants went up on the outskirts of her town in China’s wealthy, coastal province of Zhejiang the water became undrinkable. Then crops […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Two former Bank of China managers have been charged in the US with stealing $485m (£272m) and attempting to launder the money through Las Vegas casinos. Xu Chaofan, Xu Guojun and their wives were charged with 15 counts of racketeering, money laundering and fraud, the US Justice Department said.
Read MoreFrom the International Crisis Group: China’s influence on North Korea is more than it is willing to admit but far less than outsiders tend to believe. Although it shares the international community’s denuclearisation goal, it has its own concept of how to achieve it. It will not tolerate erratic and dangerous behaviour if it poses […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service: China, with its Security Council veto power and its seat on the board of the governors of the IAEA, plays a key role in how the world deals with Iran. Should Iran avoid sanctions now, and be allowed to develop its nuclear program – and possibly a nuclear device – Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: China’s economy again surged ahead in the past year, with a growth rate calculated at almost 10 percent. The sustained expansion in recent years has brought affluence to millions of urban Chinese. But in the countryside, millions of farmers have been left behind by the market reforms, or are having […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A chicken illegally smuggled across the border from mainland China has died here of bird flu, Hong Kong officials announced late today in a case that raises new questions about whether Chinese provincial officials are concealing the true extent of the disease. A villager living half a kilometer from the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: First came thousands of police and troops to guard the roads, then hundreds of officials to monitor residents, and finally the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to share Lunar New Year celebrations with ordinary citizens. At a time when the Chinese government is worried by rising social unrest, Wen and other national leaders this […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: While much of the Chinese society rejects same-sex relations, universities in the country are becoming more liberal, according to a recent survey to discover more about the levels of homosexuality on Chinese university campuses. Jiang Qiuyu and five of her classmates, from the Beijing-based China University of Nationalities, had posted […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Washington has delivered an exceptional rebuke to Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian after a speech in which he proposed abolishing a unification council with China, as well as other hardline policies. The US State Department issued a statement on Monday evening defining US policy towards Taiwan and reminding Mr Chen that Washington […]
Read MoreA man with a beard, Laoxiancheng Village, Shanxi Province, by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Senior Russian and Chinese officials are due in Tehran as early as Wednesday to stress international concern at Iran’s nuclear programme and urge co-operation ahead of an expected reporting of the case to the UN Security Council this week. The visit by officials from two countries sympathetic to Iran follows an […]
Read MoreFrom Infoworld.com: After outrage from many of its own employees over its abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger, Microsoft has formulated a new policy to deal with requests from a government that alleges posted material violates its laws. The measures were detailed by Microsoft’s (Profile, Products, Articles) top lawyer, Brad Smith, at the Government Leaders […]
Read MoreFrom Time Europe: The sheer ubiquity of the Indian presence didn’t focus the spotlight just on the subcontinent, but on the race between India and China for growth, prosperity and investment. So the question most discussed at Davos this year soon became: Which of the two is ahead now, and which is likely to win […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Microsoft on Tuesday called for internet companies to adopt a common approach to dealing with official publication restrictions in China and elsewhere, as it continued to struggle with the fall-out from a decision to block an internet blog by a well-known Chinese dissident. The US software company also modified its policy […]
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