From Time Asia: Li Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend’s young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued the boy, but not before […]
Read MoreTranslated by Melissa Diao, from Anti’s English Blog: AEB: Liberalist Yu Shicun is the author of some bestsellers, including Supernormal Words. Here is his latest column on China News Weekly. The news about the...
Read MoreTranslated by Flypig, from Anti’s English Blog – AEB: AEB: Liberalist Xu Youyu is a professor and researcher at Philosophy Institute of CASS. On Oct 20, 2005, he wrote a column on The Beijing News, entitled...
Read MoreGrass-roots officials in China are learning to counter central policymakers using one of Beijing’s own secret weapons – the watchdog press. Earlier this month in Longyan, a small city in the affluent coastal province...
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Officials and professionals attending the opening ceremony of the fifth Forum on the China Internet Media signed in Hangzhou Tuesday a joint proposal calling on China-based news websites to contribute towards establishing a harmonious society. Put forward by Zhou Xisheng, president of state-owned Xinhua Online, the proposal provides guidelines for China’s Internet […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a speech given by Yu Jie at the 2005 Asia-Pacific Regional Writers’ Forum in Melbourne, Australia: Yes, as Czech democratic vanguard Havel said in “Living in Truth,” we are a group of writers who want to live in truth, we come from a country where lies are overflowing, we choose to reject […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: What is it about commodities and Asia that attracts rogue traders? A decade after Nick Leeson brought down Barings and Sumitomo’s chief copper trader executed a $1bn fraud, a Chinese copper broker has gone missing. The man, named as Liu Qibing, is said to have taken out a massive bet that copper […]
Read MoreFrom CNN: U.S. President George W. Bush is pushing China to grant more freedoms to its people, citing Taiwan as an example of a successful Chinese democracy. In remarks released from a speech to be delivered later Wednesday in Japan, Bush urges Chinese leaders to allow more freedom in their country, including the right “to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China’s Agriculture Ministry said late today that it would vaccinate all of the nation’s billions of chickens and other poultry against bird flu. The campaign, disclosed by the official Xinhua News Agency, would be the largest single vaccination effort ever for any species in terms of the number of animals […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today: This week, Bush will visit an Asian economic summit and travel afterward to China to meet with President Hu Jintao. While Bush is considering his message for Asia, he and his advisers should study the region’s economic blueprints and how they sustain miracles and inspire others. Lessons include how to avoid the […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: In Peru, workers at China’s Shougang-owned Hierro Peru mine have protested unsafe labor and environmental standards and watched their incomes decline, even as the mine has posted record profits. In Myanmar, where Chinese military assistance props up a brutal dictatorship, Chinese logging companies are ravaging old-growth forests and exploiting mineral […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger began his three-city China trade mission in earnest by focusing on renewable energy and praising a Silicon Valley-designed solar chip as part of the future of energy efficiency in China and at home. Schwarzenegger made his remarks in a speech Tuesday morning, a day after a more boisterous […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Beijing aims to manage, rather than halt, rural migration which it accepts is important for economic growth. However, a report yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development argues that China can target policies more effectively and in economically less distortive ways. Its recommendations include further encouragement of labour-intensive production […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Widespread tree planting in China has slowed the rate at which the earth’s forested area is dwindling, but the clearing of tropical forests, much of it in areas never previously cut, continues to grow, according to a new United Nations report. The study was published yesterday by the United Nations […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com (registration required): IT IS a staggering thought: communist China now has a bank more valuable than Barclays, American Express or Deutsche Bank, financial institutions at the heart of Western capitalism. At more than $66 billion following its initial public offering in Hong Kong on October 27th, China Construction Bank (CCB) boasts a larger […]
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