From Forbes.com: China’s central bank is likely to announce details of the next phase of liberalization of yuan business that can be done by Hong Kong lenders during the annual visit to Beijing this week by a delegation from the Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB), the South China Morning Post reported, citing local bankers. […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Standard: With India working towards joining a select group of countries in adopting the next generation technology for Internet services, private companies, PSU telecom operators and international players are pushing for say in the creation of a national test bed to stimulate the transition, before adopting the new technology. Most stakeholders think […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China’s President Hu Jintao is on his way to North Korea, where his task will be to wrest a clear commitment for nuclear disarmament from Kim Jong-il. This commitment should be brought to Beijing on November 8, when the next round of six-party talks is scheduled to start. If the talks make […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Stuff.co.nz: Baiyangdian, a maze of reed-lined waterways two hours’ drive south of Beijing, is just the crossroads of water, birds and farmers that many experts believe could sow more and deadlier outbreaks of bird flu. The villagers here live among the marshes – boats are the only transport in and out – […]
Read MoreFrom Strong Country Forum, thanks to David Kelly for the translation: Editor’s note:, Ba Jin, China’s great literary master of the present age, “conscience of 20th century China” and “people’s writer” passed away on 17 October 2005 at 7:06 pm in the Shanghai East China hospital. He was 101 years old. On 18 October at […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Chinese government said Friday that very few samples of bird flu virus collected here over the past two years showed resistance to a key influenza drug, contradicting complaints by international...
Read MoreFrom Scidev.net: Chinese and US researchers have said illegal blood donation is to blame for high levels of hepatitis C infection in rural China. Although illegal blood donation practices were stopped by the Chinese government in the late 1990s, methods of collecting and storing blood need to be urgently improved to stop the virus spreading […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: A bizarre but fashionable concoction of Scotch and green tea in an economically resurgent China has driven the sale of the finest whiskies of Scotland to an all-time high. Traditional Scotch dealers didn’t ever imagine their drink would be put to such use, but they are not complaining, not after […]
Read MoreFrom Sydney Morning Herald: China will shift a giant steel mill that is a big source of air pollution out of its capital city before it hosts the Olympic Games in three years. But as it shuts down one kind of atmospheric pollution, Beijing has been revealed as centre of the world’s most dense concentration […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The steady barrage of statistics trumpeting China’s rise is often greeted elsewhere as if the figures were torpedoes and the rest of the world a sinking ship. Economic growth tops 9 percent! Textile exports jump 500 percent! Military spending up! Manufacturing up! The numbers inflame the exaggerated perception that China […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: WTO pressures China to create a tougher intellectual property regime. Washington yesterday announced a new initiative at the World Trade Organisation to bring Beijing to heel over “rampant” copyright abuses. Backed by Japan and Switzerland, the office of US Trade Representative Rob Portman said it had launched […]
Read MoreOne year ago, The Globe and Mail has published a special edition that focuses entirely on China. Today, it has a follow-up: China Rising II, again a group of articles about the same subject. Some of the links are listed here: The best medicine for B.C. health chain is a partnership Battle for the brains […]
Read MoreA migrant worker selling her son in front of a McDonald, via boxun.com.
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: THE CHALLENGE Create competitive presence in China THE LESSON Enter for the lower costs; stay for output quality; expand for innovation Among the demons stalking Nortel Networks Corp., the scariest are not angry investors or cranky financial analysts, but a bright-eyed young Chinese engineer named Eddie. Eddie, 27, is a […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: How Pinnacle got a dinner date with Zijin So, for that matter, do breakfast and dinner and stops for sustenance in between, says Pinnacle Mines Ltd. president Andrew Bowering. He found one of the cultural nuances he had to grasp about doing business in China was that regular meals were […]
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