From Newsday: China’s huge population and rising standard of living have U.S. farmers hoping the Chinese will cross culinary lines and sample fare that’s a little more foreign to them. New York State Agricultural Commissioner Nathan Rudgers, in China last month to help market U.S. agricultural goods, said many of the country’s 1.3 billion people, […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: China is simultaneously the world’s largest startup and the world’s largest turnaround. The country can draw on a 2,000-year tradition, but also on Western business know-how and technology – that is why it has been able to make progress so quickly. If you think about the last decade of China’s economic and […]
Read MoreFrom Z Magazine: Modern wars always produce large numbers of orphans, nearly all from the invaded nation. Japan’s China War of 1937-45 is no exception. That war generated not only hundreds of thousands of Chinese orphans, but also large numbers of orphans of Japanese and Korean settlers in Northeast China. This article examines the fate […]
Read MoreFrom ABC: ELIZABETH JACKSON: As global concern grows about the risk of an influenza pandemic, China has announced its fourth outbreak of bird flu within three weeks. More than 9,000 birds have died, and 350,000 culled after an outbreak in a county in north-eastern China. Spokesman for the World Health Organisation in Beijing, Roy Wadia, […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships. U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: President Hu Jintao will use a visit to Europe this month to promote that China is a “peacefully developing” power that should not be subject to an arms ban, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said. The European Union had planned this year to remove the ban, imposed after China’s suppression of the 1989 […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via INQ7.net: A high-profile human and civil rights lawyer who recently urged Chinese leaders to end their persecution of the banned Falungong sect has been ordered to close his practice for one year, he said Saturday. “I was notified by the justice bureau yesterday that we have to stop operating for a year,” […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In business, a lot can change in five years. In 1999, China was the world’s 14th largest exporter of milled steel products – that’s the basic steel shapes like flat products (coil, sheet, plate and strip steel) and long products (rod, bars, tubes and wire), typically used in construction and in […]
Read MoreFrom Indiadaily.com: India’s largest oil and gas producer works with world’s largest coal producer. India plans to make gas out of coal that cannot be mined. India has the largest deposit of that kind of coal. If implemented successfully India will surpass Cina in economic boom in the next ten years. According to media reports, […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: On October 29, Japan-US “2+2” Security Consultation Committee held a meeting in Washington, which reached an agreement on the adjustment of US troops stationed in Japan and the share of duties between Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and US troops, and published the report entitled “US-Japan alliance: For future reforms and regrouping”. […]
Read MoreChina’s latest domestically produced military surveillance plane, via bbs.news.tom.com.
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China has begun mobilizing its 2.3 million-strong military to “defend and control” against avian influenza and to prevent it from spreading to humans, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official mouthpiece of the military, said. “Under orders of the National Avian Influenza Command Center, we will work closely with the Ministry of Health, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: FBI agents in Los Angeles have arrested four people for allegedly trying to smuggle US military secrets to China. An FBI affidavit said they were charged with theft of government property, conspiracy and transportation of stolen goods, Reuters news agency reported. The affidavit said one suspect worked for a California defence contractor. […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Metropolis Daily (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: [in translation] A pretty female university student offered to “sell herself” on the Internet in order to save her seriously ill mother — this incident had an eye-catching start, a series of climaxes in between, and an ending that nobody wanted to see. Chen Yi, who […]
Read MoreFrom vnunet.com: Developers redesigning games to satisfy new regulations on playing time and age restrictions. Online gaming operators in China are racing to rewrite their software in preparation for stringent new regulations, according to an industry analyst. “The companies are looking at changing the game model to help the players reduce playing time,” said Jim […]
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