From Reuters, via China Daily: Rural schools across China owe their teachers more than 10 billion yuan ($1.24 billion) in back pay, leading the central government to consider paying teachers itself, the China Daily said on Tuesday. Failure to pay teachers’ already low salaries, in many cases because the money was lost to corruption, had […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNetÔºö China and the United States are cooperating on efforts to understand deadly bird flu, a major shift from Beijing’s handling of SARS, U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni said on Tuesday. “There is a definite willingness to be completely cooperative, be completely transparent and to exchange samples with the WHO […]
Read MorePhoto series: thousands of vehicles stuck in a traffic jam on state highway 110 near Beijing, Dec. 12, 2005, via teenin.com.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In his 19th-century classic, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, German sociologist Max Weber argued that Asian values were incompatible with the development of a modern economic system. He saw in the brand of Christianity practiced in northern Europe the only ethical system with the attributes needed to make […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: As a long-time student of US policies and attitudes towards China, I am always amazed at one enduring element I call the China Exception. Presidents can come and go; Congress can be led by either the Democrats or the Republicans; but China has always been viewed with a special eye by Americans. […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The head of a leading anti-Japanese organisation has objected to a Beijing court ruling that he defamed the reputation of a short message provider company that helped him solicit donations. Activist Lu Yunfei said he would appeal against the ruling made by Chaoyang District People’s Court […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: A senior EC official has criticised hi-tech firms for helping China silence its domestic critics. In a blog entry, EC vice president Margot Wallstroem said Microsoft, Yahoo and Google were matching their morals to suit new markets. In particular she said the firms seemed to have deleted words such as “ethics” and […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Urban residents in northern China will have to pay for their cozy winter living by the end of 2007. A notice issued on Saturday by the Ministry of Construction and seven other ministries urged a commercialized heating system within two years. Regarded as a public welfare service, heating has been free […]
Read MoreFrom AsiaNews: A group of priests and nuns were brutally beaten with iron bars, bricks and clubs by a group of ¬´ thugs ¬ª in Tianjin, a Chinese sea-side city, 150 km from Beijing, after having demonstrated against the expropriation of several buildings belonging to their diocese of Taiyuan and Yuci (Shanxi). The dynamics of […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: When Chinese authorities crack down on Internet use by dissidents, or the Burmese government prevents its people from access to e-mail, they have something in common with more than 20 other nations: They rely on technology, usually from corporations in the United States, to help them police the Web. Without products […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: With next week’s release of “One City” (Yizuo Chengchi), a novel written by best-selling author Han Han, rumours are swirling about Han purportedly netting a contracted 20 per cent royalty fee. If proven true, it will be unprecedented in the history of Chinese publishing, where authors generally get a 5 to 8 […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: For Yum!, the results in China just keep getting better; the company already opens more new restaurants there in a year than in any other market. In 2004, Yum! China recorded operating profits of US$200 million, a 20% increase on the previous year, and when this year’s figures are released shareholders will […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Compared with the arguments taking place in negotiating rooms and the riots in the streets of Hong Kong this week, there was a deafening silence surrounding China’s growing role in the global trading system at the WTO talks last week. Even though this giant nation has arguably benefited more than any other […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Another showdown on constitutional change is coming this week in Hong Kong, as the territory’s Beijing-backed leaders said today that they would make a modest change to their complex plan for limited democracy and then demand that the legislature vote later this week. The change offered this week related to […]
Read MoreFrom the Indian Express: The Communist Party of China appears to have taken a considered political decision to restore Confucius to his traditional place of pride at the centre of Chinese worldview. As it copes with growing economic inequalities and social tensions, the CPC believes Confucius might offer the right social and political medicine. The […]
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