From the People’s Daily Online: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that attracted the public’s attention was opened in Beijing on the morning of October 8. The meeting will discuss the strategy for China’s socio-economic development in the next five years. Judged from the information […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: For the second time in two years, China has announced plans to develop its own next-generation DVD standard to break the monopoly of foreign companies and avoid paying heavy licensing fees. If successful, the move could add a new wrinkle to the battle between the competing HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc […]
Read MoreGirl enjoys local carnival, thanks to 21mm for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Senior leaders of the Communist Party opened a crucial Central Committee session Saturday focusing on ways to narrow a gap between rich and poor that has broadened dangerously in China during 25 years of sweeping market reforms. More than 350 delegates from party organizations across the country are attending the four-day […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Made for trade, the modern city of Shanghai came into being in the second half of the 19th century as a commercial link with the West. British, French, German and American traders settled there, eventually followed by White Russian refugees. They built a metropolis with Asia’s first telephones, running water […]
Read MoreFrom Asahi Shimbun: China is flush with cash but hungry for resources, while North Korea is economically destitute but rich in mineral deposits. It seems like a perfect match. Investment in the repressive North by Chinese companies jumped from a paltry 10.4 million yuan (148 million yen) in 2003 to 1.36 billion yuan (19.4 billion […]
Read Morevia Seattle Post Intelligencer: Nearly one-third of children living in China’s poorest areas suffer from malnutrition, the government said Saturday, underscoring the country’s growing economic divide. Citing a report from the Beijing-based Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, the official Xinhua News Agency said 29 percent of children younger than 5 and living in poverty-stricken […]
Read Morevia Taipei Times: The government will seek a constitutional interpretation and other measures to annul the cross-strait peace advancement bill should it be passed into law, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Vice Chairman You Ying-lung (Ê∏∏ÁõàÈöÜ) said yesterday. The bill failed to move forward last Friday due to scuffles between pan-green and pan-blue lawmakers over the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse/XIC, via Asia Times: Foreign dotcoms are increasing their efforts to acquire leading Chinese Internet companies – a trend that will continue over the next few years, according to the latest findings by US-based financial consulting firm Morgan Stanley. “They [dotcoms] are pretty active and this trend will slow down somewhat next year […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Natural disasters have affected more than 201 million people – around one sixth of the population, according to the statistics from the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters released Friday. Floods and landslides have killed 1,247 people and left another 331 missing in China in the major flood season this year, a […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: Google, the most-used Internet search engine, said its description of Taiwan as a province of China is consistent with international naming conventions such as those followed by the United Nations. Google faces protests from Taiwan’s government because of the description, which is used on its map service.
Read MoreFrom Z Magazine: In the study of China’s rural development, economists and political scientists have frequently examined land policy, while demographers, sociologists and anthropologists look at family planning. Yet in real life the two domains are closely related as households attempt to match and manage their land and labor resources. This article brings together questions […]
Read MoreHong Kong double-decker bus, photo thanks to Li Huai
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: As the United States and other major nations face an increasingly costly struggle for energy supplies and consensus grows that global climate change is a serious problem, government officials from Washington to Beijing are increasingly looking to California for solutions… California’s influence is especially felt in China, the world’s fastest-growing […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: A copy of an internal New York Times memo is all Beijing can use to indict a detained Chinese researcher, according to a confidential document of the Chinese State Security Ministry. Researcher Zhao Yan has been held for over a year on suspicion of revealing state secrets to […]
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