From the Christian Science Monitor: On a hazy afternoon that threatens rain, my two companions and I hail a taxi. Our driver, Wang Yi, is friendly and professional. He flips the fare meter and starts a small narrative as we make our way through the city’s urban labyrinth… Actually, Yi is not a real taxi […]
Read MoreFrom the New Left Review: A railway worker caught up in the events of Tiananmen Square, now using his radio show to broadcast the problems of Chinese factory hands live on air. Han Dongfang describes life in the Red Army, student-worker unity in 1989, surviving TB and torture in prison and the China Labour Bulletin‘s […]
Read MoreFrom China Business Review: China must push through reforms in its energy sector”especially price reform. Unimaginable though it may be, factories in some of the world’s most vibrant manufacturing hubs are turning off the lights once a week. In coastal cities from Beijing to Shenzhen, and even as far inland as Chongqing, companies received notices […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Khaleej Times: Like most women in similar circumstances in China, Wen was at first too afraid to speak up in fear of risking her reputation, dishonouring her family and losing her job. “Most people don’t understand. Even my mother thinks: why does it happen only to you?” she said. “I became very […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Intellectual property rights and power shortages are problems in both Shanghai and Beijing but the outlook for business in both cities remains overwhelmingly positive, says the “White Paper 2005 American Business in China” released September 1. The white paper, the seventh annual report of its kind, was jointly prepared by the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Investing in China: the Emerging Venture Capital Industry in China by Jonsson Yinya Li Earlier this month, private equity investors witnessed the surprisingly successful initial stock offering by Baidu, known as China’s Google, and Yahoo’s $1 billion investment in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. These high-profile international deals are sending more venture […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao heads to the United States next week hoping to patch up economic ties strained by spats over China’s ballooning trade surplus, currency policy and surging textile shipments. Hu starts his visit on Sept. 5, just a few days after talks to hammer out a textile agreement ended in failure, […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: Top UN rights envoy Louise Arbour told Beijing today she expects more progress on human rights in China, saying individual countries could not ignore international standards in dealing with the issue. ‘There is a framework of international standards that must be respected. It’s not appropriate to say we’re doing it in our own […]
Read MoreAlleyway in a Hong Kong ladies market, thanks to James Henry for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Business Week: The United States and other nations are urging China to take additional steps to let the value of the yuan rise further against the U.S. dollar, a top U.S. Treasury official said Thursday. The yuan has appreciated by less than 0.2 percent against the dollar since July 21, when authorities revalued […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Gays, long neglected in China out of moral concern, are a group that exists and is of major concern to fight against HIV/AIDS, said Chinese Vice Health Minister Wang Longde Wednesday. At the Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Beijing Plus Ten meeting commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The Supreme Court in Canada has refused a plea for refugee status by a man described by the Chinese government as its most wanted fugitive. Lai Changxing, who has been fighting to stay in Canada for the past six years, is accused of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the 1990s. […]
Read MoreFrom China Development Brief: A hard-hitting State Development Research Centre report on China’s ailing public health system appears set to “elevate debate over health care to a new level” according to a spokesperson from the Word Health Organisation office in Beijing. Over the last decade, international agencies and Chinese researchers have published forthright criticisms of […]
Read MoreFrom Observe China (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: In March this year, United States Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice make a whirlwind visit to China. The police stood guard downstairs before and during her visit. Therefore, I wrote the short essay: “Rice is here, and the police are on duty.” My purposes were (1) to […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist: The scare stories”and the chaotic reality AS HU JINTAO, China’s president, flies to America this month, commercial ties between the two countries are at a new low. Alongside tensions about China’s currency, its growing trade surplus with America and intellectual-property theft, is a new concern: the aggressive international expansion of China’s corporations. […]
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