From the Washington Post: Under cover of darkness, hundreds of trucks brimming with coal crawl along the main street of this river town on the southeast corner of Borneo, a column of headlights burning through billowing dust. The nightly procession starts about two hours after sunset and presses on until dawn as the trucks ferry […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: Jack Ma, diminutive and wispy, a boyish former English teacher, does not fit the mold of a man who would attract groupies. Yet he’s constantly surrounded. Ma has attained cult status as the most famous of an elite group in China — the country’s Internet entrepreneurs. The half-dozen or so […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) has launched a program for environmental protection in Beijing in an effort to help build “Green Beijing, Green Olympics,” the organizer announced here Saturday. “Eco Action Beijing,” as the program called, will invite the primary school, middle school and university students in Beijing to participate in the campaign […]
Read MoreIn the Taipei Times, Arthur Waldron writes: When most people look at China’s course over the last decade or so, they are struck by four things. First is dramatic economic growth. Second is a huge increase in military power. Yet another is an ever more prominent role in diplomacy and international organizations. And fourth is […]
Read MoreSunday games in a Beijing park, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for photo, via webshots
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China has admitted that a drive to get officials to give up their illegal stakes in highly profitable but dangerous coal mines has hit a dead end, stymying the latest campaign to improve the world’s deadliest mining industry. Many officials were keeping their shares, deliberately ignoring orders from Beijing issued last […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Statistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though. On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country’s less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions. Earlier, Liu Xiaoyun, a scholar with China Agricultural University, […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China’s official media warned Wednesday that the gap between rich and poor has become alarmingly wide during two decades of economic liberalization, contributing to spreading unrest in towns and villages across the country. While the income disparity, particularly between farmers and city dwellers, has been widely discussed and reported, simultaneous and […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: One of the most exciting developments in China is the rising awareness at the grass-roots level that ordinary people have legal rights. Chinese law has long been used as a tool to help the Communist Party control the people; call it rule by law, not rule of law. But the country’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Lawrence Berkeley Lab: After the United States, no nation has more potential to influence the world’s economy and environment than China, whose gross domestic product (GDP) quadrupled between 1980 and 2000, and whose economy is the world’s second largest consumer of oil. As it continues to grow, China is projected to increase oil […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: A blunt but nonconfrontational exchange this week between the United States and China suggested that a strategic dialogue that began between the two countries last month may succeed in easing tensions in a relationship that is frequently troubled. The strategic dialogue is intended to resolve longstanding differences between Beijing and […]
Read MoreAfter Reporters without Borders reported that Yahoo had provided the Chinese government with personal information about a customer, journalist Shi Tao, that led to his arrest, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, told an Internet...
Read MoreFrom AP, via Seattlepi.com: So long, “MM,” “PK,” and “konglong.” The language police in Shanghai, China’s largest city, plan to ban those and other Chinese Internet slang terms from classrooms, official documents, and publications produced in the city, newspapers reported Friday. “On the Web, Internet slang is convenient and satisfying, but the mainstream media have […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker made a name for herself in the late 1990s as one of the most bullish analysts of the Internet. With investors’ exuberant response in August to the Nasdaq IPO of Chinese search company Baidu (BIDU ), the Chinese Internet market is now attracting a lot of attention from […]
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