From The International Herald Tribune: China on Thursday reported two new incidents of avian flu among chickens in its northeastern province of Liaoning, bringing the total number of reported outbreaks in the past month to six. The discovery of the virulent H5N1 virus in Liaoning’s cities of Jinzhou and Fuxin was made Sunday and confirmed […]
Read MoreFrom Digital Chosunilbo: Chinese businesses continue to offer weapons of mass destruction and missile-related technology to North Korea, a U.S. congressional commission claimed Wednesday quoting an intelligence official. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its 2005 report quoted testimony by U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lowell Jacoby as saying Chinese companies continued to […]
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune reports: Prime Minister Tony Blair put human rights concerns along with ambitions to expand trade on the agenda for his meeting Wednesday with President Hu Jintao of China. “We will raise our concerns with them,” said Tom Kelly, a spokesman for Blair. “It’s best to deal with these matters in private […]
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: Despite TV censorship, hot news, cool personalities”and a tinge of controversy”are enlivening China’s small screen. In mainland media, coverage of politics is still tightly controlled; contentious topics such as leadership tensions or the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown remain taboo. Despite such restrictions”or perhaps because of them”in China, news is new. “Taiwan had 10 […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service: Amid global fears that a deadly bird flu virus sweeping through bird flocks in Asia could mutate into a human flu that could kill millions, preparedness to handle a possible worldwide outbreak is becoming the new front of cooperation for the United States and China… Establishing and enforcing an early warning […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: In China these days, just about every form of commerce is thriving, including decidedly illegal ones like prostitution and counterfeiting. But not coffin making. For centuries, this city’s Longevity Lane was the best-known place in China to buy top-quality cedar coffins. Legend has it that the city’s reputation was established […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The United States is not prepared to respond quickly if there is conflict between China and Taiwan and lacks a broad strategy for dealing with China’s rise, a congressionally mandated commission said on Wednesday.The commission reaffirmed its skeptical view of Beijing, concluding that over the past year “the trends in the […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Supporters of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong yesterday called for his release after a deadline expired for his case to be passed onto a procuratorate at the weekend. The plea came as Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said in London his administration had done what it considered […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: When Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2002 and President of China a few months later, the little-known 59-year-old was seen as the man who would usher in a more liberal era. As the first president to have joined the party after the 1949 Communist takeover, […]
Read MoreFrom Macworld: Verso Technologies Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, hopes to soon win a contract to block Chinese Internet users from using eBay Inc.’s Skype VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software, the company said Monday. A Chinese telecommunications operator has begun a paid trial of Verso’s NetSpective M-Class filter, a product that is designed to block […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A prominent pastor in Beijing’s underground Protestant church was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for illegally printing and distributing Bibles and other religious books, in a case that has attracted attention from Christian groups in the United States and elsewhere… The sentencing came less than two weeks before President […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For years, the rapid growth of China and India has been based on business with the developed world, and has often meant taking business away from Western industries. Now, companies in the two largest emerging economies in the world are beginning to hunt intensively for business in each other’s markets. […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Police in Beijing are expecting a terrorist attack against luxury hotels in China in the coming week, according to a warning issued by the American Embassy in the Chinese capital. In a message posted on the embassy’s website this morning, the US State Department advises American tourists to be vigilant if they […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called on the nation to intensify efforts to fight bird flu when the country is facing a “very serious situation” in controlling the epidemic. Bird flu has not been totally controlled in China and the danger of spread still exists in some regions, the premier said during an […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Migrant workers are temporary laborers from rural areas working without official permits in cities. Many urban employers of these workers want their effort, but not the liability for safety, fair wages, family services, and a host of other rights furnished to those with residential permits by way of birthright or deep pockets. […]
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