From Xinhua: The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s environment watchdog, vowed to take into account environmental elements when assessing its economic growth, the head of SEPA said here Wednesday… The World Bank estimates 400,000 people in China die each year from air pollution-related illnesses, mainly lung and heart diseases. It says direct damage costs […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: In a trend fraught with troubling political and social implications, China will soon find itself with a marriage-age population remarkably out of balance, with about 23 million more young men than women available for them to marry in this decade and the next – what demographers term a “marriage squeeze.” […]
Read MoreFrom Le Monde Diplomatique: China is celebrating the 600th anniversary of the amazing voyages of Admiral Zheng He, as great a navigator as Captain Cook or Columbus, and of his contribution to Chinese curiosity about the world.
Read MoreFrom an editorial by the Standard: Volkswagen announced last week that it would develop its first gasoline- electric hybrid vehicle – a minivan. More intriguing was the announcement that it is being developed in China for...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Road construction has become ubiquitous throughout the west, from steamy tropics to snow-capped mountains to arid deserts. It seems as if everywhere one goes, there is a bypass, a road under construction, and workers in orange waistcoats pitching their tents by the roadside. Some of the results are impressive. The Erlanshan tunnel, […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A study earlier this year by a group of scholars called the OpenNet Initiative revealed what no one had thought possible: that the Chinese government is succeeding in censoring the net. Its most powerful tool is its control of the routers – the devices through which data is moved from one place […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: China’s tycoons have joined the global jet set, according to Boeing, which said yesterday that it has sold its first private business plane in the world’s most populous nation… With an economy growing at around 9% a year, Boeing said it expects more sales of the BBJ. Other brands are also positioning […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Boston Globe: The new head of Washington’s anti-piracy drive has made China his first official overseas destination to drive home the point that the mainland is the main culprit in the huge business of counterfeit products… Washington says about 70 percent of the counterfeit products that enter the United States are […]
Read MoreFrom Technology Review: What’s the leading search engine in China? If you said Google, you’re showing your Western bias. It’s actually Baidu.com, whose stock debuted on the Nasdaq exchange on August 5, raising some $87 million for the startup. Companies like Baidu are now riding a wave of investor expectations that Internet searching will become […]
Read MoreShanghai Sharks Dance Team at Luwan Stadium, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The National Administration for Protection of State Secrets and the Ministry of Civil Affairs declared at a press conference on Monday that starting from August, the death toll from natural disasters would no longer be a State secret. This appears a step behind practice. Over the years, the public has become accustomed […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: President Hu Jintao told President George W. Bush on Tuesday that China was willing to work with the United States to ease a growing trade imbalance and acknowledged there were frictions in the economic relationship. “What I would like to stress here is that China does not pursue a huge trade surplus with […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News: A former Microsoft executive can immediately begin recruiting staff for a Google development center in China, rather than waiting until after a January trial, a Washington state judge ruled Tuesday. Microsoft had asked the King County Superior Court to extend a temporary order banning Kai-Fu Lee from starting the work he was […]
Read MoreA Glimpse of Shanghai, (photo series), from Xianren558, via wenxuecity.com
Read MoreFrom The Nanfang Daily, (full text in Chinese), via the Press Interpreter: When viewed from an airplane, the Penghu archipelago is supposed to look like a jade necklace. However, even under clear skies, they seem to be covered by haze that even the typhoons Maisha, Coral, Taili, and Butterfly could not dissipate. Taiwan is a […]
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