From the New York Times: For the author of one of China’s best-selling novels of recent years, and moreover, one about rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains, Jiang Rong makes a surprisingly timid introduction. “I am sorry, I have no name cards,” said the man meekly as he entered the living room of […]
Read MoreMigrant workers in a city construction site, via peacehall.com.
Read MoreLocal preparing shellfish for the market, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China plans to abolish legal distinctions between urban residents and peasants in 11 provinces as the government tries to slow the country’s surging wealth gap and reduce social unrest, state media said Wednesday. Under an experimental program, local governments in those provinces will allow peasants to register as urban residents […]
Read MoreHong Kong nightscape, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: By boycotting a dam conference organized by the government, Chinese environmentalists have protested the lack of transparency in a river project to build the world’s largest hydroelectric cascade on the Nu River in southwestern China that flows into Myanmar and Thailand. The environmentalists feared that the conference, held […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune, via Newsday.com: Amid the blitz of reports on bird flu outbreaks across Asia and Europe, scientists agree one place stands out: China. It is a special case not simply because China is home to more than one-fifth of the world’s population, but because it holds the grim distinction as an incubator […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News: Chinese media reported Tuesday the launch of Japan’s new Cabinet by calling it one led by hawkish politicians who support Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine. Newspapers’ reports focused particularly on Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Aso, introducing them as supporters of the […]
Read MoreChinese journalist-blogger Michael Anti (ZHAO JING) wrote on his Chinese blog: From today on, I will translate the latest focus of discussions by Chinese intellectuals on http://mranti.blog.com（now changed to...
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Increasingly aware of the deteriorating state of China’s environment, the Chinese leadership has decided that it wants the national economy to not only grow fast, but grow green. They have asked state planners to develop a new indicator to measure the country’s growth, a “green GDP“, which would […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (read the full text on Peking Duck): There are only about 60 gold-standard green buildings in the world – that is, buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as having been made with the materials and systems that best reduce waste, emissions and energy use. One of those buildings […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: China plans to abolish the legal division between urban and rural residents in 11 provinces to protect the rights of migrants needed for labor in booming cities, though a similar experiment failed four years ago, the official media said Wednesday. The new policy would drop the decades-old “hukou,” […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Turkishpress.com: In their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing, media freedom groups say. Equipment by French group Thales is used to jam foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese and European Union officials signed an agreement on cooperation in government procurement here Wednesday, under which the two sides will establish a regular dialogue on government procurement. Under the agreement, Chinese finance officials and their European counterparts will meet once every year for a dialogue on matters concerning government procurement, including legislation, […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: Bank of America and other foreign institutions that have invested a combined $13 billion in China’s banks will be required to hold their shares for at least three years and will not be allowed to buy stakes in more than two lenders, an official of the banking regulator said on Wednesday. […]
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