From People’s Daily Online: Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of High Energy Physics exchanged huge scientific data with their Italian counterparts via the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (Gloriad). The huge data, collected at the Yangbajing Observatory for space radials, could not be transmitted through the prevailing Internet. The […]
Read MoreTwo Tibetan women at the bank of Lasa River, a branch of the Yarlung Zangbo River, via duoweinews.com.
Read MoreFrom The Standard: China must scrap its rigid 50-year-old household registration system if it wants to normalize and facilitate the flight to the cities that has been driven by rapid economic development. With the outdated system still in force, the indicators that measure China’s urbanization are distorted and misleading.
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: More than 200,000 coal miners plagued by pneumoconiosis, or black lung, will enjoy medical treatment as a total of 42 million yuan (5.4 million US dollars) has been so far raised for that purpose. The money came from 18 large state-owned coal mining businesses, according to officials with the China coal mine […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China is struggling to overcome what a minister called the world’s worst water crisis caused by widespread drought, pollution, rapid economic growth and waste, the China Daily has said. Per capita water availability in China was about a quarter of the world average and expected to fall further, the report said. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: The Chinese authorities have blocked access to a personal Web log, or blog, written by a prominent critic of the communist regime after it was nominated for a key award. Wang Yi’s Microphone, was nominated for two categories in the Best of Blog (BOB) Awards sponsored by German radio station Deutsche […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: In English, the term is “sweat shop.” The Chinese term is Ë°ÄʱóÂ∑•ÂéÇ, which is translated as “blood and sweat factory.” In other words, more than just sweat is left on the factory floors in China. According to Wikipeida: a “sweatshop is a factory, usually in a third-world country, where people work for a […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: Once again, the press fell silent in China in its coverage of a new movie. But this was not due to an edict from the Central Propaganda Department. Instead, the press went into a spontaneously self-organized rebellion to protest against restrictions on their coverage. The story was originally published in Jiangnan Times […]
Read MoreFrom the Pacific News Service, via sfgate.com: Liu is the latest of a string of Chinese women bloggers who have become famous, some even worldwide. They talk about sex and relationships openly, changing the dialogue between the sexes. In a culture where sexual attitudes are still repressive, the racy details shared by the women bloggers […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: At a time of rising political tensions, heightened by a growing nationalism, China and Japan are more intertwined economically than they have ever been. In their breadth and intensity, the ties have begun to surpass those between the United States and Japan, whose economic relationship has often been called the […]
Read MoreFrom CSR Asia blog: Migrant workers in Zhengzhou hold a banner advertising a news release to demand back wages. The story of back wages is not particularly remarkable (in fact it’s par for the course), but the banner advertising their complaint as a news release is an interesting strategy to get their story in the […]
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Robert Skidelsky writes about two books: Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde V. Prestowitz, and China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman: The “rise” of China has […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China on Thursday urged the Vatican to put into action its will to better relations with China. “The Vatican is very clear about the principles that China advanced for developing China-Vatican relations,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan at a regular press conference. The first is that the Vatican must terminate its […]
Read MoreFrom Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition): Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday wrapped up a three-day visit to North Korea that saw him urge his hosts to open up the isolated country. In unusually direct language, Hu recommended the so-called Chinese Way of openness and reforms, but although North Korean leader Kim Jong-il offered polite praise […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: General Motors Corp became the latest auto maker to commit publicly to the production of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles for the Chinese market, announcing plans to manufacture hybrids in China by 2008 with its Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported. GM said it has set a goal of […]
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