From Asia Times: One could be forgiven for thinking communicable illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS and the newly feared bird flu, are the major disease threats for Asia in the next and coming decades… It would be foolish in any way to discount the potential impact of these diseases. But a much greater health concern looms […]
Read MoreFrom Chosun Ilbo: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says China has much to lose if its leaders decide to use the country’s fast-growing military power in threatening ways. The secretary made the comment while assessing his just-concluded visit to Asia during a flight to Europe for meetings on other issues. Meanwhile, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee […]
Read MoreFrom In These Times: Everyone I meet is afraid. The chief executive of one of China’s largest hotel groups is afraid to complain to the police about the hustlers who sell fake watches outside the lobbies of his hotels. A Buddhist who runs a network of factories is afraid to speak openly about the Chinese […]
Read MoreWedding couple saving a little girl who fell in a lake (photo series), via bbs.tom.com
Read MoreFrom RConversation blog: Latest censorship news: Wikipedia has confirmed reports from bloggers and others that the online peer-produced encyclopedia has been blocked in China. At the same time, as Tom Friedman reports in the NYTimes Select (I won’t provide a useless pay-only link) podcasting is taking off like crazy in China. Censorship and information crackdowns […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: It took 10 years for the former president of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui, to visit the United States again. Back in June 1995, the sitting president returned to his alma mater at Cornell University in upstate New York after an absence of 27 years. China responded with a series of missile tests off […]
Read MoreFrom The Meccury News: A toxic cloud of smog over China’s cities caused by exhaust from millions of new cars and belching coal-fired power plants is exacting a major public health toll, experts said Monday. “About one-fifth of urban Chinese now breathe heavily polluted air,” said Zhang Lijun, vice minister of the State Environmental Protection […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: To pay for a coming trade mission to China, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s political allies are raising tens of thousands of dollars from businesses whose names are largely being concealed. In addition, at least two of the three public relations firms playing a role in the visit have political ties to […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Does anyone go to Shanghai to see contemporary art? It isn’t even mentioned in standard tour books touting the Shanghai Museum‘s ancient bronzes, Pudong’s glittering skyline and shopping, shopping, shopping. For most visitors, the quintessential Shanghai experience is sipping a drink at a bar overlooking the frantic traffic along the […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: Japan and China appear headed for a showdown over natural gas exploration and drilling in the East China Sea. Up until Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro on Monday visited a controversial shrine to his country’s war dead, it was hoped the showdown might occur at the negotiating table. But the visit, his […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Stuff.co.nz: The many controversies which marred China’s National Games have raised pointed questions about sportsmanship and athletic priorities as the country prepares for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. From doping to thrown matches to biased judging, the domestic “mini-Olympics” that ended on Sunday in eastern Jiangsu province was riddled with embarrassments blamed by […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China has completed at least one new drilling platform in the East China Sea and may already be tapping into hotly contested natural gas and oil fields, escalating a dispute with Japan over the rights to billions of dollars worth of underwater energy reserves, according to Japanese reconnaissance data. The Chinese […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a report from Xici Hutong about the harassment of a reporter at Taizhou Evening News by policemen who complained that his report on traffic fees was inaccurate: At the time of the incident, several dozens of traffic police officers had gone to the office of Taizhou Evening News to complain about a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese plans to turn an untamed river into a hydro-electric hub have sparked a war of words about national priorities as the government rethinks the balance between economic growth and environmental protection. Officials and experts in Beijing debated at the weekend a plan to harness the Nu River in southwest Yunnan province with […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China, once accused of being slow to acknowledge the threat of AIDS, could have as many as 10 million HIV carriers in five years if no effective preventive measures are taken, state media said on Monday, echoing a grim UN warning. China says it has 840,000 HIV-AIDS cases among its 1.3 […]
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