From The Financial Times: Ma Ying-jeou, new leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, has started a campaign to highlight the party’s historic links with the island and reconcile it with those who suffered under decades of repressive KMT rule. The KMT party headquarters, widely seen as a symbol of its authoritarian past, yesterday became the scene […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: (More on this topic, via Google News.) Asked specifically whether the information Yahoo provided was crucial to the case or merely incidental, Yang said he did not know. Shortly after the questioning, Yahoo canceled a news conference that had been scheduled, providing no further explanation. The exchange over Yahoo’s role in […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: The latest symbol of China’s relentless drive for global superpower status will be unveiled on a street in downtown Vancouver this fall.It has a harmless-sounding name: the Confucius Institute. But it represents a dramatic change in China’s overseas strategy. Under the guidance of President Hu Jintao, who arrived in Ottawa […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: The following story appeared in Nanfang Weekend. It follows the story of one particular forum post at the Tinya Club [sic]. The post first appeared in February 22, 2005. Since then, it was been viewed more than 223,000 times, and almost 4,000 people have commented on it. It is estimated that […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Yahoo! Inc., the most-visited Web site, had to pass documents to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of a local journalist because the company must follow local laws, co-founder Jerry Yang said… “The government asked for the documents and backed it up with a court order,” said Yang, who was speaking […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Martin Jacques reviews “The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market” by John Gittings: Gittings is one of that rare breed of journalists who has maintained a specialist interest in his subject for so long and with such thoroughness that he commands the respect of academic specialists and journalists alike. In […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: They may be as much a symbol of Mexico as sombreros and cacti, but chillies in the country are starting to lose some of their national flavour in favour of a Chinese tang. Farmers in Mexico are complaining that cheap imported varieties from China now represent nearly half national production of dehydrated […]
Read MoreFrom Asahi.com Faced with rampant corruption among government officials and Communist Party members, schools in major cities across China have begun giving lessons in honesty. Bribery, embezzlement and other crimes of deceit among officials are so widespread that the Ministry of Education decided that early intervention was a good idea, hence an “anti-corruption” curriculum that […]
Read MoreAccording to the China Daily, the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) sent a team of legal experts and doctors to Linyi, Shandong Province, to investigate rising complaints from local farmers, who are claiming that they have suffered serious human rights violations. NPFPC and the Shandong Provincial Population and Family Planning Committee launched the […]
Read MoreCommuters in Chongqing walking to work after a traffic accident, photo series, via duowei.com
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy.net: A healthy open society demands the free flow of information within and across its national boundaries. When internet use began to take off in China, it became a clich√© in the west to announce that it would prove the catalyst for real political and social change: the internet, the argument went, could not […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: A week before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s scheduled meeting with US President George W Bush (later canceled due to Hurricane Katrina), on the fringes of the United Nations summit in New York, Washington warned Beijing that the two countries would be on a collision course if China continues to pursue energy deals […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: A local arm of China Telecom, the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, has moved to block access to a computer-to-telephone call service offered internationally by Skype, the European internet telephony company. Skype does not offer the fee-paying “SkypeOut” service to mainland Chinese users of its software and the action against it […]
Read MoreFrom Independent Online: Hong Kong has long been considered a shopping and gastronomic hotspot, drawing travellers from all over the world to its East-meets-West culture. But with a change in world travel markets and tastes, this southern Chinese territory is revamping its tourism strategy, tapping unexplored cultural and recreational potential. Billions of dollars have been […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: By the time the great railroad reaches this town from the east, it has already traversed more than half of China, past the high desert of Qinghai, around one of the world’s great salt lakes, through the arid fastness of Gansu, and then over and around mountain ranges arrayed like […]
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