From the Wall Street Journal, via Slashdot: Can China really control the Internet? It has launched a new bid to try. In an effort to crack down on the information access and activities of China’s 100 million Internet users, the Chinese government is imposing new regulations that will attempt to centralize all China-based Web news […]
Read MoreFrom BBC news: China’s top court is to regain its power to review death sentences, as the authorities move to stem criticism that the death penalty is too widely used. The Supreme Court passed its right to review to lower courts in the 1980s, and a series of subsequent miscarriages of justice have recently come […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Forget China’s “flowering of democracy” – promised direct-level township elections. China must rather learn to rule cities that are mushrooming into gigantic urban concentrations...
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: For a blind man described by supporters as a “barefoot lawyer” for his work advising villagers fighting brutal population control measures in Shandong province, Chen Guangcheng has attracted the kind of official ire typically reserved for high-profile dissidents. During a two-week detention in a village in the city of Linyi, authorities […]
Read MoreFrom The Forbes: A caravan of trucks is scheduled to set off from Beijing today bound for Brussels as part of a pilot project to reestablish a new ‘silk road‘ to boost trade between China and Europe, state media said. The expedition is part of China’s efforts to promote barrier-free road transport between China and […]
Read MoreThe current issue of China Information, published by Leiden University, focuses on the Internet in China. Abstracts of the articles are available online, including: “The Sociopolitical Internet in China” by Lokman...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: According to Beijing Morning Post, Shen Yongtao, deputy director of Service Quality Supervision Office of the Telecom Administration Bureau under the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), revealed that “Relations of SMS Communication Service Management” (Regulations), China’s first set of SMS regulations, will be officially published recently. Those sending porn SMS at random […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese director Chen Kaige‘s high-profile martial arts film, “The Promise”, has received its final “license” to compete for Best Foreign Film in next year’s Academy Awards. The film’s publicist, Huang Bing, announced that they received the official notification from the Film Bureau yesterday.
Read MoreShanghai Eagles baseball player at the Shanghai Sports Palace, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom Sify News: The sixth round of India-China boundary talks entered the second day on Tuesday with a senior Chinese leader urging for an early solution to the vexed border dispute between the two Asian giants. Welcoming India’s National Security Advisor M K Narayanan to China, the Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member and Chairman […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times Few places are as steeped in the traditions of feng shui as this ancient city. The pathways of centuries-old tombs follow the pattern of the Big Dipper’s seven stars. Countless homes and modern buildings sport mirrors to deflect bad energy and outdoor fountains to guide riches inside. So when a university […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China supports a proper solution to the Iranian nuclear issue through negotiation and cooperation within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a Chinese official said Monday at the 49th IAEA general conference in Vienna. China has always supported a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue within the framework of […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Japan’s military has drawn up a defense plan that refers to the possibility of an invasion by China, the Asahi Shimbun national daily said yesterday. In one scenario, drawn up at a time of tense relations between Tokyo and Beijing, China occupies the disputed islands known as the Senkakus in Japan and […]
Read MoreFrom Business Scotsman.com: WOLFSON Microelectronics has opened a second office in China in a bid to build on the rapid growth it has been experiencing in the country. The Edinburgh-based chip-maker announced yesterday that an office had been opened in Shanghai to capitalise on the growing number of indigenous designers and manufacturers. Julian Hayes, marketing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China lacks the ability to enforce export controls on technologies used to produce weapons of mass destruction, undermining its claims to be a responsible global power, an influential U.S. research group said on Tuesday. The findings reinforce what analysts say is a feeling in the United States that China is not doing enough […]
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