After the release of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report on October 11, 2005, the commission released an update November 1, 2005 (in pdf format). The updated report contains a position paper on the household registration system, as well as translations of the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law, the court judgment in the Zhang […]
Read MoreFrom the Washingtonpost.com: Washington Post staff writer Peter S. Goodman was online from Shanghai to answer your questions about developments in China. In recent months, Goodman has addressed issues including China’s wave of privatization, its emergence as a magnet for foreign investment and trade negotiations with the U.S. A collection of his recent articles is […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The Privacy Commissioner has decided to further consider whether Yahoo!’s disclosure of information to mainland authorities leading to the imprisonment of a journalist breached the personal data privacy ordinance in light of public concern. Roderick Woo Bun said yesterday he was trying to see “if I […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: There is a techie adage that goes like this: In China or Japan the nail that stands up gets hammered, while in Silicon Valley the nail that stands up drives a Ferrari and has stock options. Underlying that adage is a certain American confidence that […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, which launched its first manned space mission just two years ago, plans to put a man on the moon around 2017 and investigate what may be the perfect source of fuel, a newspaper reported on Friday. Two Chinese astronauts orbited Earth for five days last month in the Shenzhou VI and China […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: When Joe Schoendorf, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was in Shanghai a few years ago to hear a pitch from a Chinese start-up company, he sensed something familiar. He interrupted the meeting, walked to the window and pulled back the curtains. “What are you looking for?” he remembers the would-be […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in its northeast province of Liaoning on Friday, the fourth to hit the country in a month. The disease has killed 62 people in Asia and infected 122 since late 2003, but in almost every case the virus is believed to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China is in the midst of a sustained banking revolution. Driving this revolution are changes in customer expectations, rapid technological advances, foreign equity participation, and intense industry competition that have placed extraordinary pressure on the banking sector to modernize and reform. Indeed, the time has arrived for China’s much maligned brick […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes: China’s 40 richest businesspeople are worth a collective $26 billion, up from $18 billion a year ago. China is now home to ten billionaires and their families, up from three last year. A net worth of $321 million was required to make the top 40, $90 million more than last year. Most of […]
Read MoreFrom Ap, via Seattlepi.com: Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Web log after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday. The blog, titled Wang Yi’s Microphone, dealt with “sensitive subjects” and was maintained by a teacher from Sichuan province, Paris-based Reporters Without […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder Newspapers: China offered the West some viral material in 2004, but it refused to do so following an outbreak among migratory birds in Qinghai Lake in western China in May. Instead, it put the detailed genetic sequencing of the virus on a secure Web site to share. Bekedam said Chinese scientists “were […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: The number of netizens in China rose to 103 million by late June this year, majority subscribing to ADSL broadband internet service, latest government figures have shown. China’s netizen base has risen to 103 million by June this year, said Mao Qian, head of Optical Telecommunications Committee of China Telecommunications Society, […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: A US expert on the Chinese criminal justice system has called on Beijing to demonstrate its commitment to the rule of law by intervening in the high-profile case of a blind activist confined, harassed and allegedly beaten by authorities in northern Shandong province. Chen Guangcheng, a legal activist who had been […]
Read MoreFrom the ChurchNewspaper: THE ARRIVAL of Chinese president Hu Jintao in Britain next week is set to heap more pressure on Tony Blair, who has set himself on a collision course with human rights campaigners angry at the visit. Hu, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, can expect to be greeted by protests from […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the New York Times: The Asian Development Bank on Thursday projected a bird flu pandemic in Asia could kill around 3 million people, cause economic losses of up to nearly $300 billion and possibly push the world into a recession. China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand would likely be hit hardest […]
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