From AsiaPacific Issues (in PDF form): Wang’s 12-page essay cites and documents facts essential to understanding earlier, present and likely future debates on this topic. Emphasizing the plurality of China’s population policies, sociologist Wang corrects the common impression that China ever had a single policy, even during the same time period. China’s birth rate was […]
Read MoreThe 316-kilometer-long Nujiang River Gorge is flanked by two 4,000-meter-high mountains, Yunnan Province; via toptrip.cc.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Far from the pulsing cities that symbolize modern China, this tiny hillside village of crude peasant houses seems disconnected from this century and the last. But follow a dirt path past a snarling watchdog, sidestep the chickens and ducks, and a small clearing on the banks of the Nu River […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: In the holiday-season euphoria, analysts appear to have become excessively upbeat about Asia’s economic prospects for 2006. According to Credit Suisse First Boston’s latest forecast, the 10 biggest economies in Asia outside Japan will expand at a weighted average rate of 7.5 percent next year. Three months ago, CSFB’s prediction for 2006 growth […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via PlanetGuru.com: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), or China’s top think tank, founded a Marxism academy here Monday. Liu Yunshan, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said at the inaugural of the academy that new advances should be made in Marxist theories in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Morningstar: When a new law takes effect Jan. 1, China’s coal mines will have to post “safety bonds” to finance possible payouts in the event of miner deaths in a mishap, as well as other accident-related expenses, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Coal mines with an annual production capacity of 30,000-90,000 metric […]
Read MoreFrom Digital Chosunilbo: North Korea agreed with China over the weekend to jointly exploit offshore oilfields. The deal was signed after a meeting in Beijing and puts maritime disputes between the two countries to rest. Energy experts in China say the deal comes as no surprise as the two countries have already signed a series […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax China : The Chinese government last week began closing down websites whose owners had not registered their personal information with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), government officials said. “Unregistered websites were shut down as a warning. The government is not punishing anyone,” Hu Yonglong, the Vice Director of the Shanghai Communications Administration […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax China : The Chinese government shut down 5,098 websites providing pornographic video chat services during a nationwide campaign running from September to November of this year, a government official said. Pornographic chat-rooms have become increasingly common in China, generally consisting of a woman hired to sit naked with a PC camera while chatting […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Wang Daohan, 90, the longtime head of China’s agency that deals with rival Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic ties, died Saturday in a Shanghai hospital of unspecified causes. Wang, the former Communist Party secretary for Shanghai, served as president of the Assn. for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits […]
Read MoreSome towers in ancient Shaolin Temple are leaning due to damage to the base, via boxunnews.com.
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: After holding Zhao Yan, a journalist, for 15 months without a hearing, Chinese authorities have finally drummed up an indictment. Friday, on the last working day for prosecutors to decide whether to go forward with the case under Chinese law, Zhao, a researcher in the Beijing bureau of The New […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: The World Health Organization’s regional director has called on China to change its farming practices as a long-term way to prevent outbreaks of deadly bird flu, state media reported. Shigeru Omi, director for the Western Pacific region, told the official Xinhua news agency that the common practice in China of raising different kinds […]
Read MoreFrom The ABC News Online: Twelve miners are trapped after a fire broke out in a coal mine in south-west China’s Guizhou province. The fire began at about 11:20pm local time on Saturday at the Xiangshui Coal Mine located in Panxian county of Liupanshui city, Xinhua news agency quoted the Guizhou Provincial Coal Mine Safety […]
Read MoreFrom Stuff.co.nz: The number of Japanese who have good feelings toward China has fallen to a record low, according to a government survey, in an apparent reflection of the icy diplomatic ties between the Asian neighbours. In a Cabinet Office poll released over the weekend, only 32.4 per cent of respondents said they had friendly […]
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