From Business Week: Growing numbers of mainlanders are investing in art and antiquities, snapping up everything from ancient Chinese scrolls and traditional ink paintings to the works of French Impressionists. BusinessWeek Asia Correspondent Frederik Balfour spoke with Ken Yeh, deputy chairman of Christie’s Asia in Hong Kong, about the auction house’s efforts to woo more […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CBS News: China’s skies have darkened over the past 50 years, possibly due to haze resulting from a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions, according to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy. The researchers, writing in this month’s edition of Geophysical Research Letters, found that the amount of solar radiation measured […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Even though Deng Xiaoping declared that getting rich is glorious nearly three decades ago, just a few years back China’s millionaires were running scared. When a Forbes Magazine survey of China’s richest appeared in 1999, wags called it the “death list” after a tax crackdown targeted many who made the cut and […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: At precisely 12:01 on Sunday morning when the Lunar New Year officially ushers in the Year of the Dog, Li Mingying intends to be cowering in her small apartment several blocks from Tiananmen Square. It is at that moment that 12 years of pent-up pyrotechnic frustration will be unleashed here […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS | Technology: The latest stage of Google’s move into China has proved controversial, but Bill Thompson believes it has made the right decision. So Google has fallen off its pedestal at last. It took a while, but the company’s decision to launch a Chinese language search engine hosted on servers inside the […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, took the rare step of standing up for arch-rival Google today as he argued that state censorship was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China. The richest man in the world told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos that […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, viaAsiaMedia: Mainland journalists are experiencing their worst censorship in recent years, with outspoken media outlets being crushed one by one. Journalists and academics said the momentum to mute forthright journalists and media outlets reached a peak on Tuesday with the closure of the popular four-page China Youth Daily weekly feature […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: As of the end of 2005, the population officially believed to be living with HIV/AIDS in China was around 650,000, 75,000 AIDS patients included, with an average prevalence of 0.05 percent. About 70,000 new cases occurred in the same year and about 25,000 people died of the disease across the […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: On a late evening along Marine Drive, Mumbai’s answer to the Shanghai Bund, dancer-beggars prowl with monkeys, extorting coins from passers-by. Deep potholes pit the sidewalk and the sea gently laps a crumbling wall. It is quaint, but it does not feel like a city of the future. Shanghai was […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Anyone who thought China’s global quest for oil would be slowed by its failed attempt to acquire Unocal last summer should think again. In recent months, Chinese oil companies have made a string of moves aimed at securing overseas reserves ” moves that have broader economic and political implications for […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: It’s the deadliest job in China, sending hundreds of thousands of workers underground each day to dig coal from mines that one labor-rights group has labeled slaughterhouses. The flooding of a coal mine in Guizhou Province just last week is the latest in an almost constant string of accidents in […]
Read MorePhoto series: Landscape of Guilin, Guangxi Province, via york.ac.uk
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Led by surging exports, China’s economy grew by 9.9 percent last year, the government announced Wednesday, underscoring the swiftness by which this once insular communist country has remade itself into a global trading power. The rapid expansion appears to move China’s economy ahead of those of Great Britain, France and Italy […]
Read MoreFrom Time Europe: Really now, isn’t working tirelessly toward a shared goal with your allies wonderful? Who wouldn’t share in the joy of E.U. foreign affairs czar Javier Solana, German Chancellor Angela Merkel or even ” yes ” President George W. Bush, as they rhapsodize about the way in which the U.S and the leading […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Lin Yudui was considered the lucky brother. Like more than 100 million Chinese peasants, he left his rural roots behind for a job in the big city. His younger sibling stayed in the family’s hometown, the hamlet of Dongzhou in southern China’s Guangdong province. In early December, when Lin returned for a […]
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