From BBC NEWS: Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian has warned of growing economic and military threats from China. In his New Year address the president vowed to strengthen Taiwan’s security. In comments bound to anger China, he also suggested that the Taiwan could hold a referendum in 2007 to establish a new constitution. This is a […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: In 2005, Asia reminded the world whose century this is. A booming China, a resurgent Japan and a vibrant India helped shift the pendulum of economic growth eastward. And investors who shook off bad memories from the 1997 financial crisis to bet anew on Asia were not disappointed. The Morgan […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via The China Daily: The year 2006 marks the start of China’s 11th five-year period (2006-2010) for economic and social development and this year’s work is vital to China’s development, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Sunday. Hu said at the New Year tea party hosted by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: From the prison cell where he contemplated an executioner’s bullet, a migrant worker named Wang Binyu gave an anguished account of his wasted life. Unexpectedly, it rippled across China like a primal scream. Articles in this series are examining the struggle in China over the creation of a modern legal […]
Read MoreFrom China News Weekly (zhongguoxinwenzhoukan), via sina.com: (translated by CDT, links are added by CDT) Facing 2006, we hope that China’s reform will make critical progress in challenging areas, the country will be...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Before there could be a Tai Shan, there was Day Mount, crouching among the bamboo, bringing giant pandas into a waiting Western world. Mount was the State Department’s first panda officer. Chosen to escort Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling from Beijing to Washington in 1972, he was first in a line of diplomats […]
Read MoreFrom asiapundit blog: The website of Michael Anti, one of China’s most provocative bloggers, have apparently been shut by MSN Spaces, following posts on a series of posts on the walkout by reporters at Beijing News and after Chinese blog service provider Bokee ran a column suggesting that authorities pay attention to Anti. Via ESWN.: […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: The website of China’s central government, www.gov.cn, opened formally at zero hour Sunday following a three-month trial operation. There was no grand ribbon-cutting ceremony for the launch of the website. But according to Wu Jiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, this could be seen as a starting point […]
Read MoreWomen “dressed as swans” take part in a winter swimming show in Liaoning province, via The First Post.
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via IOL: China is still not sharing virus samples from animal bird flu outbreaks, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, a day after Beijing announced the country’s third human death from the disease. The woman, a 41-year old factory worker from the south-eastern province of Fujian, died from the deadly H5N1 form […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government Thursday approved plans to abolish the agricultural tax, a centuries-old levy imposed on farmers that communist authorities had continued for more than five decades. China’s rural population of 900 million has largely been on the losing end of the country’s dramatic economic growth, which has created huge […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Art Deco glory of the Cathay Theatre on Huaihai Zhong Road still beckons to those who love movies, a renovated bit of 1930s Americana in Shanghai that is a reminder of Hollywood’s long history of building dream palaces in China. War, a communist revolution and a capitalist reawakening have […]
Read MoreLondon Terror Attacks – A sample of Beijing News front page, from Letters from China blog.
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China has published a series of historical documents on the notorious Nanjing Massacre in a bid to reflect history truthfully, objectively and comprehensively. The series contains 28 volumes, with the first eight issued in July this year and the remainder issued Tuesday in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province… “The series […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: Events in China during 2005 point to a country on the rise in the economic sphere, but one that faces a variety of daunting political and social dilemmas. China’s ascendancy in the global economy was made clear by upward revision of its gross domestic product figures for 2004 to more than $1.9 trillion […]
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