From Xinhua: China’s population and family planning minister said here on Friday that China will work to limit its mainland population below 1.37 billion by 2010. Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, stressed that China will keep its family planning policy in place to maintain a low birth […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The death of the last remaining member of the “Gang of Four“, Yao Wenyuan, ends one of the most troubled chapters in China’s modern history. But many in China, especially those are too young to remember it themselves, know very little about the persecution and bloodshed orchestrated by Mao Zedong’s Gang of […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: Microsoft Corp said it was acting in line with global laws when it deleted a Chinese web blog hosted on its MSN Spaces service which posted articles critical of a management purge at a Beijing newspaper. ‘As a multi-national business, Microsoft operates in countries around the world. In line with Microsoft […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: …With Beijing due to host the 2008 Olympics, the next few years are being seen as offering China a chance to show that it is more than just the world’s centre of manufacturing industry. Films will play a major part in that drive, but they are not the only focus. China has […]
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A worker in Lugu village brick factory, Henan Province, by Zhu Reifeng, via flickr.com.
From the American Enterprise Institute (via Peking Duck): The most recent Federal Reserve estimates suggest that the US productivity machine is humming and that US economic potential growth is likely to be about 3 per cent for the foreseeable future. This would be not only a triumph for free-market economics but would place the US […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: During its 10th Five-Year Plan Period (2001-2005), China had been dealing with the complicated world situation and domestic economic and social issues. It proves that China has stood the test of difficult situations and achieved its goal of fast economic development while still facing great challenges ahead. The first year […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Her parents are caucasian Americans, her home is a $1 million villa on the Hudson River and her favorite place to play is a swing in the yard. But when Hilton Augusta Rogers, aged 2, swings through the air on sunny mornings she doesn’t express her joy in English. “Geng gao,” she […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Police in the Chinese city of Nanjing are angry at a new demand to disclose details of their private lives, state media has reported. The new order, part of an effort to stamp out corruption, requires police officers to tell their superiors if they are getting married or divorced. They will also […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: THE day the Wu clan formally reopened its ancestral temple was a festive one. In the brutal era of Mao Zedong, the temple (which is over 700 years old) was destroyed and clan elders hid the Wu family archives from Red Guard fanatics. Puritanical communists despised the ancient kinship networks that had […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A businessman who led thousands of investors in a campaign against the government seizure of valuable oil fields in northern China was convicted of organizing illegal protests and sentenced to three years in prison Thursday, relatives said. The ruling against Feng Bingxian, 59, was the culmination of a prolonged and closely […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: There are many problems in China: social and environmental, political and economic. But behind them is the lack of media freedom. As such, the crisis surrounding the Songhua River spill symbolises the country’s wider woes. A poisoned river can spoil many lives. So, too, a poisoned media. Technorati Tags: China, press freedom
Read MoreFrom the Dallas Morning News, via Miami.com: From the U.S. perspective, the alternatives are truly awful. A war to disarm North Korea could see Seoul, South Korea’s capital, destroyed by North Korean artillery. Do nothing, and North Korea might soon be armed with nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the United States, or become a […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Public companies in China, among the world’s worst stock market performers in 2005, started the year with a new tool: stock incentives to improve profits and governance. Incentive programs, involving as much as 10 percent of a company’s stock, have been allowed since the start of the new year, the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Guardian Unlimited: China is closing 5,290 coal mines in a safety crackdown on the world’s deadliest mining industry, the government announced Thursday. The figure is higher than a previously reported estimate of 4,000 mines that would be closed after safety inspections in 2005, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It cited figures […]
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