From the Seattle Times: Last week, Microsoft lost an opportunity to improve its relations with the Chinese government after Chinese President Hu Jintao’s trip to the U.S. was postponed. Instead, the company found itself in court, hearing an executive who defected to its biggest rival disparage Microsoft’s record in China. Not an ideal outcome for […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The two eruptions of peasant violence in the hills near here offer a glimpse of a much larger wave of popular unrest. Thousands of protests break out every year in China’s cities and villages, even though such demonstrations are prohibited. The protests have become a major concern for President Hu Jintao’s […]
Read MoreWoman selling fish, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for the photo, via webshots
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Ang Lee‘s gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain has won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film is adapted from a story by E Annie Proulx and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as cowboys whose secret love affair spans 20 years.
Read MoreUPDATED 9.12.05 Following is a one sentence news report that ran on Xinhua today: The death toll in natural disasters was no longer regarded as state secret starting from August this year, a government spokesman said here...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Even before China’s annual “Internet summit” got under way here, Charles Zhang, the stylish founder of the Web portal Sohu.com, was holding court in the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel, standing before a crush of reporters and television cameras. Soon after, two other Chinese Internet superstars, William Ding, the 34-year-old […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: For the Beijing bureaucrats who control China’s petrol pump prices, the cloud cast by Hurricane Katrina over global oil markets is lined with silver. At least for now, Katrina’s disruption of the US refineries – not China’s voracious demand – is copping the blame for the global oil supply squeeze that sent […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: As Hong Kong Disneyland prepares to open on Monday, Disney will hold off building a similar theme park in mainland China until it has been assured that it will be able to air Disney shows on Chinese television, according to Robert Iger, the company’s president. Disney’s firm stance underlines the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: China will have to tolerate more dissent as its economy grows and opens up to the rest of the world, former President Clinton said Sunday. Clinton, who is on a four-day visit to China, also said he would have raised the case of a Chinese journalist imprisoned for allegedly […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In a muscular display of its rising military and economic might, China deployed a fleet of five warships on Friday near a gas field in the East China Sea, a potentially resource-rich area that is disputed by China and Japan. The ships, including a guided-missile destroyer, were spotted by a […]
Read MoreCommuters in Chongqing walking to work after a traffic accident, photo series, via duowei.com
Read MoreYan’an Lu, near People’s Square, for Anti-Japan March, Shanghai, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreProtest girl, thanks to 22 Catcher for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Frontline (India’s National Magazine): Foreign investors are understandably showing an increasing interest in Chinese banks. But it is not clear why the Chinese government is courting the dangers associated with their entry. Until recently, China’s banks were described in terms that made them global outcasts. They were not seen as banks that mobilised […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times: Not far from the fabled Silk Road city of Dunhuang in northwestern Gansu province, Chinese scientists are drilling boreholes deep into the Beishan Mountains. It is here that China expects to permanently store the radioactive wastes that are accumulating from its rapidly expanding nuclear power industry. In the next few weeks […]
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