From Infoworld.com: Yahoo was only following Chinese law when it provided evidence that helped land a local journalist a 10-year jail sentence, the company said Thursday… “Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations, and customs of the country in which they are […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The National Bureau of Statistics vice director said he was “shocked” by the 10-year gap between the quality of life of urban residents and farmers — the dominant force of China’s gigantic 1.3 billion population. “Generally speaking, the overall consumption power of the huge farming population still lingers at the early 1990’s […]
Read MoreYahoo is expanding its operation in China by making huge deals with Alibaba.com, photo from fofo.org/news.
Read MoreMan with umbrella at the Temple of Heaven, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for the photo, via webshots
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: China Daily is reporting that Buddhist monks in Shanghai are enrolling in MBA courses to learn how to better manage their temples. Just another example of the ineluctable power of capitalism to “break down all Chinese walls,” as a long-dead German political economist once said. Perhaps it is necessary for […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A blind Chinese activist who has been at the forefront of a campaign to expose the dark side of the state’s one-child policy went on hunger strike yesterday after he was arrested for trying to launch a class action lawsuit against forced sterilisations and abortions. Chinese Rights Defenders has issued a statement […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The Fudan University class, Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies, is the first of its kind ever offered to Chinese undergraduates, and Ms. Sun briefly wondered why it was so well attended, before providing her own answer. “The attitude toward homosexuality in China is changing,” she said. “It is a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A total of 104 tons of emergency supplies from China, destined for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, arrived in a US airbase in Little Rocks, Arkansas Wednesday afternoon local time. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the relief goods include power generators, tents, bed sheets and child clothing, with a value of 5 […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Recent Chinese statements on its critical relationship with the United States have tried to deflect perceptions of a brewing confrontation by projecting China as a “force for peace.” Such statements highlight the carefully woven rhetoric that has accompanied China’s emergence as a global superpower. Although it is often dismissed as […]
Read MoreFrom Israel National News: Shlomo and Dina Jin are descendants of the Jewish community that existed for nearly a thousand years in Kaifeng, China. With the help of the Shavei Israel organization, the Jins recently completed their conversion back to Judaism by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, and will be getting married at 5:30 PM at Heichal […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: Wal-Mart plans to open 14 superstores in China this year in an effort to catch up with Carrefour and domestic chains. China’s retail market is estimated at $652 billion. In December, China made it possible for foreign retailers to open stores without a local partner. The decision met […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The disaster brought by Hurricane Katrina is perhaps unprecedented in the American history. Some people associated it with the tsunami happened last yearend in the Indian Ocean and called it “a tsunami of America”; others were reminded of the terror attacks New York suffered four years ago, and called it a […]
Read MoreThis power point presentation describes the harsh lives – and deaths – of coal miners in China. For more on coal miners, see here.
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Many Chinese still feel a century-old sense that America is young and flexible, a “sunshine society,” a place of wealth and generosity where laws are made to protect people, as one Beijing scholar here puts it. At the same time, more Chinese describe the US as trying to keep China […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Microsoft’s failures in the Chinese market prompted a key employee to defect to search engine firm Google, a US court heard during testimony. Former Microsoft vice-president Kai-Fu Lee is at the centre of a bitter employment wrangle after he was hired by Google to set up a research centre. This topic on […]
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