From the International Herald Tribune: China is starting to tackle the problems at the root of a four-year stock market slump, but experts caution that it is too early to crack open the Champagne. In the third quarter, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange indexes, the benchmarks for China’s domestic share markets, surged about 25 […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: If Arnold Schwarzenegger had any doubts about the extent of his fame, they were swept away by the army of fans who mobbed him on the streets of Beijing today. The Governor of California is in China to lead the fight against pirated DVDs – but must have been aware that most […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: Despite strong internal opposition, China’s Communist Party later this week will officially restore the reputation of a liberal-leaning party leader whose death in 1989 helped spark pro-democracy protests, according to people informed about the plans. The party has not publicly honored the late leader, Hu […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Caijing magazine is China’s best business magazine and has a reputation for independence and investigative reporting. The editor-in-chief is Hu Shuli, whom The Economist once called “the most dangerous woman in China“. She has written an editorial in the current issue of Caijing asking why the Chinese media is doing such a bad […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left for China on Sunday for a six-day mission to encourage Chinese officials to crack down on the piracy of copyrighted music, movies and software and to promote California products. The trip also gives him a chance to revive his political image after the bruising defeat of his “year […]
Read MoreFrom Indian Express: As the curtains came down today in Dhaka on the 13th SAARC summit, the event will be remembered only for the extraordinary demonstration of China’s new political clout in the sub-continent. It was a long time coming. But when it did in Dhaka over the weekend, China’s diplomatic big bang left in […]
Read MoreFrom Newindpress.com: DHAKA: In a strong endorsement of India’s stand, the SAARC countries pledged to declare war on poverty and terrorism, admitted Afghanistan as the eighth member of the group and signed three key accords on customs cooperation, avoidance of double taxation and setting up an arbitration council to strengthen economic linkages. “It is my […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Any native English speaker is surely impressed by the English craze that has swept the country. Every bookshop is well stocked with English learning books. English is a very popular major among university applicants. All kinds of English speaking contests are organized across the country. Various tests are staged on campuses […]
Read MoreFrom India Express: The inexplicable Indian habit of giving the benefit of doubt to China emerges every now and then despite hard evidence to the contrary. Recently, when Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee referred to the ’62 border conflict as a war with China, a lowly vice-consul in the Chinese Embassy pounced on him. The vice-consul […]
Read MorePhoto series: Chemical Plant blasts hurt dozens, Jilin city, Jilin province; via boxun.com
Read MoreFrom T-Salon blog: On October 28th, a retired senior placed the above full page advertisement in five major Hong Kong Chinese-language newspapers in response to the government’s proposal on constitutional development. In the advertisement, he said: “Tell me, will I see the day of universal suffrage?” One who has been waiting from 1984 to 2005, […]
Read MoreFish put out to dry, Hong Kong; thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Prince Charles wrote the comments during the 1997 Hong Kong handover. In the journal he described Chinese diplomats at a ceremony as “appalling old waxworks”, the paper reported. He also allegedly called a speech by then-Chinese president Jiang Zemin as propaganda, and slated the function as an “awful Soviet-style” performance. The newspaper […]
Read MoreFrom Ap, via CBS News: Hollywood star Jackie Chan won the Golden Rooster best actor award in the first year that mainland China’s prestigious film awards have tried to upstage rival Taiwan’s by opening up to ethnic Chinese actors in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The Golden Rooster ceremony came a day before Taiwan’s Golden […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: China has reported its eighth outbreak of bird flu in less than a month, as Thai authorities rushed to investigate the first confirmed human infection in the capital Bangkok. China’s latest outbreak, which killed 2,500 birds, occurred in two villages in Jingshan county, part of Hubei province in the country’s vast rural interior, […]
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