From the Guardian: Panic was today spreading in the Chinese city of Harbin as officials prepared to cut off water supplies as heavily polluted river water flowed towards them. Stockpiling began afresh at midnight when the local government switched taps on again for 12 hours after having cut off supplies to almost four million people […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: To the club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets”think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996″add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing’s State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may […]
Read MoreFrom a Business Week editorial: China last week mounted a surprisingly aggressive mobilization in hopes of averting an avian flu pandemic that has the potential to hobble Asia’s economy and slam global growth. This is a far cry from Beijing’s response to the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Then, China restricted press […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Parents of internet addicts are turning to the courts to make the industry pay for allegedly destroying — or even taking — the lives of their children. Zhang Chunliang, head of the China Economic Herald’s Centre for Prevention of Internet Addiction, said he had been instructed […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Aljazeera.Net: China will order 60 bullet trains from a Japanese consortium led by Kawasaki Heavy Industries as Beijing turns to both Japanese and German firms to expand its rail network. The Railways Ministry will buy 60 bullet trains from the Kawasaki-led consortium to run in China as early as 2008, the Yomiuri […]
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Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for the following: These are good articles on avian flu from Caijing magazine from mid October and early November issues (the original Chinese versions are available here and here). The...
Read MoreFrom the Weekend Standard: From the third floor restaurant in Shanghai’s Oriental Riverside Hotel, the view west across the Huangpo river is uninterrupted. The European architecture along the Bund on the opposite bank remains a symbol of Shanghai’s 1930s heyday, in the same way that the skyscrapers on this side of the river in Pudong […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China added a total of 48.22 mln mobile phone subscribers in the first ten months of the year, bringing the total number to 383.04 mln, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) said. In a statement on its website, it also said the country booked 36.84 mln new subscribers to fixed-line services […]
Read MoreFrom Jidian’s blog: When Bush attended the Sunday service at the Gangwasi (Gang Wa Si) Church on Nov. 20, it seemed to be big news. The Chinese media were saying that Bush’s visit showed to the world that the accusation of some westerners that China is a country that lacks religious freedom is totally nonsense. […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Li Xin knelt in a hotel room here, wearing polka-dot boxer shorts and a grimace on his face. The deputy mayor of Jining, in Shandong province, was pleading with his lover not to report him to authorities. But in the end, the 51-year-old official was exposed and sentenced to life […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Global audiences love Chinese films. House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Yimou‘s latest epic drama, grossed US$11 million at the US box office alone. But the films could fare better at home. Given the country’s population of 1.3 billion and per capita GDP of about 70,000 yuan (US$5,600), China’s 2004 box-office figure of […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China: the country of the Great Wall, the biggest army in the world and censorship of the internet. Or is it? Meet the bloggers who are claiming they’re free to say what they like. “BBC makes me sick”, begins a post at China Top Blog. The blogger goes on to explain that […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China called bird flu a “serious epidemic” and pledged to step up measures to fight the deadly virus Tuesday as officials announced three new outbreaks of the disease in the country’s poultry. The outbreaks were detected last week in western and southern China, resulting in the killing of nearly 175,000 birds, the official […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Media: An activist who was badly beaten while trying to help Taishi residents oust a local official for alleged corruption plans to return to the village tomorrow, as scholars resume criticism of the government attack on grass-roots democracy. “I plan to return to Taishi on November 20,” said Lu Banglie, who was beaten […]
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