From Guardian Unlimited: Premier Wen Jiabao visited this city in China’s northeast Saturday and expressed concern for the 3.8 million residents enduring a fourth day without running water while they wait for a spill of toxic benzene in a nearby river to pass. The government warned residents that water supplies, suspended to protect the city […]
Read MoreFrom Non-Violence Resistance ÈùûÊö¥Âäõ‰∏çÂêà‰Ωú blog: As we drove towards the waste water treatment facility on the outskirts of the city, the cab driver became chattier. He guessed I was a journalist from out of town, but was more excited to know that I was a Jilin native. I too was overjoyed to find out that […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Chicago Tribune: Pushing China’s foreign exchange reform ahead by another step, the central bank on Friday carried out its first currency swap deals with local banks in a move that could help bring more flexibility to the market. The People’s Bank of China confirmed that it was carrying out its first foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: By the time Lu Banglie drove toward the village of Taishi that night, his photograph had already been distributed to local police stations. So when camouflage-clad men guarding the village entrance stopped his taxi and peered inside, Lu recalled, they immediately shouted, “It’s him! It’s him!” and yanked him out by the […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The government tried for days to keep secret the threat posed to the nearly four million people of this city by a chemical explosion and benzene leak that has made the water supply unusable, Chinese news accounts revealed Friday. The reports, including some from the official Xinhua news agency, suggested […]
Read MoreJob hunters flock to an employment fair in Chongqing Municipality, November 23, 2005, from China Economic Net.
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Two of the most pressing problems facing the Chinese government crossed paths on Thursday at a modest collection of buildings in the north-eastern city of Harbin, just round the corner from an old Russian Orthodox church. The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute has been at the forefront of China’s efforts to contain […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: As temperatures plummet in China’s north-eastern province of Heilongjiang on Friday, millions of residents in the city of Harbin remain without water as authorities evacuate hundreds of villagers living along the contaminated Songhua River. Two Chinese environmental experts warned on Thursday there was a risk of dangerous chemicals getting into the […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily, via China Economic Net: The number of unemployed Chinese in cities is about to hit 17 million next year, the peak year in the coming five years, according to a top economic planner. Considering a pool of 150 million surplus workers in the countryside, the job market in China is still […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: For the first time in her life Mrs Li is thinking of splashing out on a bottle of water. It may only cost 7p, but for the migrant mother living in one of the city of Harbin’s poorest neighbourhoods, anything but tap water has, until now, been an unthinkable extravagance. Decision […]
Read MoreFrom The Beijing Review: Fresh investment flowing into China is moving into broader regions and into agriculture and services. Not so long ago, “Going to China” was the chant for international investors. In their eyes, as long as they came to China, they would earn money. This was true and many investors had made a […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Before I got on a plane to Harbin on Wednesday a friend gave me two large bottles of water and told me to hide them in my suitcase when I arrived, just in case anyone at the airport should try to steal them. The previous day, Harbin had cut off its […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: Beijing’s economic miracle has come at a daunting price. High in the Tienshan mountains in the westernmost region of China, pristine snowfields feed the streams that fill a famous local beauty spot known as Heavenly Lake. The crystal waters inspire even more column inches of enthusiastic brochure-ese than they might otherwise, […]
Read MoreFrom The Bangkok Post: Japanese businesses are expected to shift their investment away from China and pour new funds into Southeast Asia over the next several years. Business leaders and policymakers attending the two-day Asean-Japan Business meeting this week agreed that now was the right time for new investment in Asean given its solid recovery […]
Read MoreFrom The New Scientist: A respected Japanese scientist, who works with the World Health Organization, says 300 people have died of H5N1 bird flu in China, including seven cases caused by human-to-human transmission. He says he was given the information in confidence by Chinese colleagues who have been threatened with arrest if they disclosed the […]
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