From the second installment of the Good Morning America series “Made in China: Your Job, Your Future, Your Fortune“: The Nike plant in the Guangdong province is by no means a sweatshop. Overtime is limited to a 48-hour workweek, the company brings in a ton of rice a day to feed everyone, and the facilities […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Standard: China has emerged from the summer with far fewer electricity blackouts and shortages than feared, potentially closing the latest chapter in its boom- and-bust power sector saga. Better demand management, rainy weather and improved coal transport helped close supply gaps, in turn curbing the need for extra oil supplies to […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: The People’s Daily published yesterday a set of statistics that reveal the reality of the country’s large migrant worker population.The growing source of labour consists of 120 million rural workers that contribute more than 530 billion yuan (US$65.4 billion) a year to local economies outside their hometowns.The flow of labour from […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Yahoo operates internationally and should endeavor to follow some common principles – in the same way as extradition is applied only in cases where similar laws apply. Assisting in tracking murderers, suicide bombers and drug smugglers is not the same as handing over providers of what in most countries would […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: For three days and three nights, the police wrenched Qin Yanhong’s arms high above his back, jammed his knees into a sharp metal frame, and kicked his gut whenever he fell asleep. The pain was so intense he watched sweat pour off his face and […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Two days before Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s recent landslide electoral victory in Japan, five of China’s warships were spotted near a gas field in some contested waters between the two countries in the East China Sea. This probably helped Koizumi pick up extra votes from those Japanese who are increasingly […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Dubbed as an “art feast,” Beijing’s second International Art Biennial will be held from tomorrow to October 20, organizers announced yesterday. The 30-day event, the largest of its kind in China, will attract more than 400 artists from 67 countries and regions, including such big names as Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter, […]
Read MoreFrom the Village Voice: Before Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 opened here last month, it was heralded by a still of Zhang Ziyi espousing the kind of tantalizing erotic mystery that movies themselves seldom project these days. It might prove the most iconic image to have appeared since Marlene Dietrich was photographed leaning back on a beer […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian’s News Blog: Starbucks’ long march into China has breached the Great Wall itself. Tourists will be able to drink cappuccino, frappuccino and other coffee concoctions at one of China’s greatest cultural treasures after the Seattle-based company announced it had opened a shop at Badaling, 47 miles north of Beijing. More on this […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News Good Morning America: China’s economy continues to skyrocket and, with it, American fortunes have been won and lost. “Good Morning America’s” Bill Weir recently traveled to China and returned with a four-part series: “Made in China: Your Job, Your Future, Your Fortune.” In the first installment, Weir examines China’s transformation from a […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: After rapid expansion since 2003, the income gap in China has reached the second most serious “Yellow Light” level, or alert level, says an article on state media… It says the United Nations Development Program released statistics that show the Gini coefficient, a statistical measure of inequality in which zero expresses complete […]
Read MoreFarmer Wei Honghai: demanding protection of land rights, from www.gmwq.org, via boxun.com
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: If you google the word “Taishi” in English, you may not find much. However, this continuously unfolding event has been going on weeks, and the latest developments are all over the Chinese-language Internet. This is about an election in the small village of Taishi (population about 2,000), Panyu districty, Guangzhou. First, a […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World: Ours is the second era of economic globalisation since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The first began in the second half of the 19th century and ended with a series of political and economic disasters in the first half of the 20th. If such […]
Read MoreAs a follow-up to Philip Pan’s article in the Washington Post today, and coverage of the arrest of activist Chen Guangcheng, see Xinhua’s Sept. 20 story: The national population and family planning agency on Monday said that an investigation has proven that reported population-control abuses by family planning officials in east Shandong Province are factual. […]
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