People’s Daily Online: The Chinese government on Friday announced its decision to give disciplinary punishment to two vice provincial governors for their responsibility over fatal mine accidents. The State Administration of Work Safety said at a press conference that the State Council, China’s cabinet, has decided to “record a demerit” on Gong Deshun, former vice […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Khaleej Times Online: Yes, Big Brother really is watching. Beijing police plan to install a network of “anti-terrorism cameras” in luxury hotels, a government newspaper reported Friday. Police already operate a network of 90,000 video cameras throughout the Chinese capital that monitor traffic and can be used to follow individuals. The plan […]
Read MoreFrom Newindpress.com: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso said China was beginning to pose “a considerable threat”, given the unclear intent of its rising military spending, leading to a sharp rebuke from Beijing which termed the statement “highly irresponsible”. China is “a neighbour with 1 billion people equipped with nuclear bombs and has expanded its military […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Seattle Times: A dam temporarily blocked a toxic spill of cadmium from flowing downstream and reaching the country’s southern business center, Guangzhou, a news report said today. It was the second manmade disaster to hit a Chinese river in six weeks. On Thursday, a slick of toxic benzene from the first […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: WHEN a dozen Chinese newspapers recently ran stories about a rash of sadistic cat killings in Shanghai by a perverse postgraduate student, it was another quiet triumph for a young man in Beijing called Zhao Jing. To a widening blog readership in China and abroad, Zhao is better known by […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The People’s Daily held an interview with Li Deshui, head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on China’s revised GDP (gross domestic product) of the year 2004 after the country’s first nationwide economic survey. Technorati Tags: China
Read MoreFrom Discovery News: China has laid out a three-step program for human space exploration: Technology demonstrations, occupancy of a small orbital module, and assembly of a large research complex. With two successful orbital spaceflights under its belt, China’s next step is to demonstrate more complex operations in space, such as a spacewalk or the ability […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition voted down a modest political reform plan Wednesday that it described as an attempt to sidestep public demands for general elections, dealing a sharp defeat to the local government and its allies in Beijing. The package, proposed by Chief Executive Donald Tsang, would have enlarged the committee […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse, via Asia Times: China has issued a major white paper on its “peaceful development”, stating that this is the way for the country to achieve modernization. The 32-page paper, titled “China’s Peaceful Development Road” and published by the Information Office of China’s State Council, explains the “inevitability” of the country pursuing peaceful […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: While Santa Claus lives it up with Rudolph at the North Pole, his elves have relocated to southern China’s towns and villages. Some 70% of the world’s Christmas ornaments and other paraphernalia now originate in officially atheist mainland China. Tinsel, Santas, mistletoe and artificial trees of every shape and hue are churned […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: BEIJING Officials of OPEC are stepping up efforts to secure their market share in China as they compete with Russia to supply the country. Sheik Ahmad Fahd al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Kuwait’s energy and oil minister and the president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is scheduled to lead the […]
Read MorePhoto series: migrant workers in Beijing begging to receive their overdue salaries, via boxunnews.com.
Read MoreFrom The Knight Ridder Newspapers: If Japan’s development was fast, and South Korea’s was even faster, then China’s rise is the fastest. China on Tuesday reported that its economy is much bigger when its share of the growing services sector is estimated more accurately. As a result, China replaced Italy as the world’s sixth-largest economy. […]
Read MoreNPR’s Talk of the Nation interviewed Elizabeth Economy for today’s program: Critics say that China’s rapid economic growth leads to pollution in the air and water, and leaves mountains of untreated waste. In one recent incident, an explosion at a Chinese chemical plant spilled benzene into a major river, cutting off the water supply to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The prop plane packed with businessmen swoops into this once sleepy oasis town in far western China, flying in low over the spectacular Tian Shan mountain range, now snowcapped. At the tiny, primitive airport here, where people have to wait outdoors in the biting cold for their luggage, a billboard […]
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