From AP, via CNN.com: China is considering building a temporary dam to stop a river-borne toxic spill that is headed toward a Russian city, a government newspaper reported Thursday. The dam would be built on a waterway at the juncture of two rivers on the Chinese-Russian border, the China Daily said, citing an unidentified Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: China’s government needs to embrace political transparency and be more open about its military budget to ensure its rising economic and diplomatic power isn’t seen as a threat in Asia, Japan’s foreign minister said. “I call for China to ensure the same level of transparency as Japan, not just with regard to economic […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CBS News: An explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Wednesday, leaving at least 62 workers dead and another 13 missing, the government said, the third disaster in recent weeks involving scores of miners. The latest incident highlights the Chinese government’s continuing battle with mine safety despite repeated crackdowns […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: It was known, simply, as “the wooden building.” For 30 years, from 1910 to 1940, the barren walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station gave mute testimony to the experiences of roughly 175,000 Chinese immigrants who were detained and exhaustively interrogated on this island in San Francisco Bay, the West […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Much as manufacturers in the United States have transferred jobs to Latin America and just as Western European factories now look to Poland and Hungary, China’s modern-day capitalists are increasingly focused on wringing profit from Southeast Asia. They are tapping new markets for sales and farming out work to people willing […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A Jiangsu farmer who blew the whistle on a bird flu outbreak in Anhui in October has been detained by police, raising concerns that he is being punished for speaking out. Lawyer Kong Weizhao said his client, Qiao Songju, was detained on November 25 on allegations […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: At least two villagers in China’s southern province of Guangdong have died after police fired on a crowd protesting the construction of a wind power plant, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. Witnesses and Dongzhou Hospital authorities near the port city of Shanwei told RFA’s Mandarin service that by 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABCNews.com: Beijing is likely to hint at the possibility of giving full democracy to Hong Kong by 2017 to win over pro-democracy lawmakers opposed to the city government’s election reform proposals, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Citing an unidentified source close to Beijing, the South China Morning Post said the hint would […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Fifty-four miners were confirmed dead and 22 remained missing in a colliery gas blast occurred in Tangshan City, north China’s Hebei Province on Wednesday. Rescuers were still searching for the trapped under the coal mine. A Xinhua reporter at the accident site in Liuguantun Colliery in Kaiping District of Tangshan verified that 186 […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Forbs: A deputy mayor of Jilin who told reporters the chemical plant explosion had not led to any pollution was found dead at home Tuesday. The United States said Tuesday that it was sending experts to help China cope with a river-borne toxic spill that is approaching Russia’s Far East, while Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Bungling, delay, cover-up. When such missteps follow a major disaster, officials often have to resign. We saw it unfold in the United States after the killer hurricane Katrina. Now we’re seeing heads roll in China, following the Nov. 13 chemical plant explosion that killed five people and spilled 100 tons of benzene-like carcinogens […]
Read MoreChina analyst David Cowhig sent the following into CDT: A News.sina.com.cn BBS had a posting entitled “What you certainly won’t see on Chinese Central Television” showing US soldiers in friendly encounters with Iraqis and Iraqi children. A wide range of responses. Some of the responses were: — It is good to see both the good […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal, via The China Daily: Four years after China joined the World Trade Organization, foreign companies give Beijing a fairly positive report card for moves such as cutting tariffs and opening up financial services — but they say there is a lot left to do in other areas. China’s imports have surged […]
Read MoreIndia and China: An Energy Team?: The two giants’ alliance is part of a possible pan-Asian oil and gas grid. India’s Oil Minister calls the concept a “21st century silk route” India’s globe-trotting Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is paving the way for what could become the cornerstone of his unique brand of oil diplomacy […]
Read MoreFrom The Shanghai Daily: A Shandong Province blind man who blew the whistle on family planning officials violating farmers’ human rights has been put under house arrest by local authorities for nearly three months. The home of Chen Guangcheng, 34, in Linyi City is guarded by about 10 men every day, the semimonthly magazine, “Law […]
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