From the Christian Science Monitor: As the “year of the dog” arrives in China, a new fad for those partaking in China’s success is weekend skiing. Office groups migrate to one of eight new ski “villages” outside Beijing. Many arrive in SUVs, the current “it” car also used for fashionable expeditions to outbacks in Gansu […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: On Tuesday, a government spokesman in Beijing said Chinese President Hu Jintao was meeting with a “foreign leader” during the day but said it wasn’t necessarily Kim. When asked to confirm Kim was in China, spokesman Kong Quan said he had “not received any authorized information to provide at present.” […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Reporters Without Borders, a group advocating press freedom, recommends that Internet companies also adopt a good conduct code, pledging not to filter out words like “democracy” and “human rights” from search engines and maintaining their e-mail and Internet servers outside China. Western businesses have always overestimated the price of defending […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A prominent Chinese lawyer and collector unveiled an old map on Monday that he and some supporters say should topple one of the central tenets of Western civilization: that Europeans were the first to sail around the world and discover America. The Chinese map, which was drawn in 1763 but […]
Read MoreOver a dozen ethnic minorities live along the Nujiang River region, including the Nu and Drung people, via toptrip.cc.
Read MoreFrom South Florida Sun-Sentinel: South Florida executive Avelino Oliveira never expected to be selling Chinese auto parts across Latin America. When he started in the auto industry in 1985, China was a land of bicycles. No one could imagine that in 2005, the Asian nation would export more vehicles than it imported and stand poised […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s fight against the avian/human pandemic influenza is facing a relatively big financial gap, said China’s Chief Veterinary Jia Youling here Tuesday. Jia made the remarks at a conference in Beijing aimed to collect global financial resources to stop the disease from further spreading among birds and from birds to humans. As one […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: As Washington, now joined by the EU3, presses for punitive international action against Tehran, one of its most difficult tasks will be to win China’s support. The first step is to persuade China to agree to support – or not to block – an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referral of Iran […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Lawyers for a group of Chinese nationals held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with no hope of release are taking the rare step of asking the Supreme Court to intervene immediately, saying only the high court can resolve the constitutional crisis their case presents. Attorneys for the […]
Read MoreFrom Thepost.ie: Family and friends of deposed Chinese Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang gathered today to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his death. Authorities kept a close watch on dissidents seeking to further his legacy of political openness. Visitors streamed into Zhao’s Beijing home, where he spent the last 15 years under house arrest after […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the San Jose Mercury News: Police patrolled a village in southern China on Tuesday, a day after the cremation of a teenage girl who was beaten to death by officers in violent weekend protests over land compensation, according to media reports. The girl reportedly was clubbed by police wielding electric batons […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service: With soaring oil prices, frequent electricity shortages all over the country and worsening pollution, it would seem that the prospects for China’s renewable energy industries have never been better. Beijing is keen to promote low-polluting alternative energy not only as a solution but also to improve its profile as a responsible […]
Read MoreA truck loaded with Hydrochloric Acid crashed in a serious traffic accident in Guangzhou, Guangdong province; via Boxunnews.com.
Read MoreFrom the Independent (via Peking Duck): A three-year investigation into booming export factories for companies such as Marks & Spencer and Ikea discovered the human cost of China’s “economic miracle”. It found an army of powerless rural migrants toiling up to 14 hours a day, almost every day. Many were allowed just one day off […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Gov.cn: China’s attempts to shut down illegal and unsafe coal mines have met with mixed success, the nation’s safety watchdog has revealed. Only around 40 per cent of the pits on the government’s 2005 closure list had stopped mining by the end of last year, according to a document released by […]
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