From the Economist (subscription only; free day pass available): Mao Zedong told China’s women that they “hold up half the sky”, but they have had little to show for their feat. Women today make up more than 60% of China’s vast agricultural workforce, yet occupy barely 20% of the seats in the national parliament. Nor […]
Read MoreFrom Physorg.com: Researchers at the University of Bremen, the Max-Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg and France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have been studying the retrieval of nitrogen dioxide variability from space and modelling its global behaviour. The team have published an article in the 1 September 2005 edition of the science […]
Read MoreThis article was written for China Digital Times: With the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia at hand, Japanese-Chinese relations are once again painfully tangled. Despite the massive strides made by both China and...
Read MoreFrom Sinopolis.com, here is a translated summary of a Xinhua article: Zhang Songdan, an official of the investigative group of the State Forestry Bureau, says in an interview Jan. 19 that the problem of APP’s forest destruction in Yunnan really exists. He says they found local governments, such as the Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Villagers in southern China have vowed to continue their protest against alleged local corruption following their arrest for a hunger strike. More than 80 people in Taishi village, Guangdong province, refused food on Wednesday because they said the local authorities had ignored their concerns. Seventeen of them were arrested on Thursday morning […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: Just noticed this forum at Beijing Review, discussing the case of Yu Bin, former vice mayor of a small city in Hunan province, who took brides to fund projects for the poor. He was recently found guilty of corruption, given three years in jail (it is not clear if that […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The authorities announced yesterday that the share merger reform would be extended to the whole market, sparking a smart rally on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses. Five State departments announced guidelines pushing the reform process ahead since the pilot projects on share mergers had proved successful and were well received by the […]
Read MoreHigh school students from Xinjiang arrived Xiamen for a study program, by Kang Miao, via duowei,com.
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Read MoreFrom The Washington Post, via The Seattle Times: U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators ended two days of talks here yesterday without an agreement resolving the dispute over widening volumes of Chinese-made textiles reaching the United States, a key source of friction between the two countries. Sources briefed on the talks said the two sides made […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China issued a white paper (see full text ) Thursday on the Chinese Government’s policies and positions on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and on China’s involvement in the international arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation affairs. The white paper, issued by the Information Office of the State Council, says China […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Leader, translated via Pacific News Service by Jun Wang: According to the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, families who can have two children are “at the two ends of the social scale.” They are either so poor that the government never expects them to repay the fine, or […]
Read MoreFrom Pacific News Service: At a time when Islamic populations around the world are under increased scrutiny, the Chinese Hui are often confused in the Western media with China’s second-largest Muslim minority, the restive Uighurs, an ethnically distinct group concentrated in China’s Central-Asian Xinjiang province. Chafing under Chinese rule, the Uighurs have given the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Telegraph: The Chinese government has cut off Tibet from the outside world for a series of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of what Beijing calls its “autonomous” local government, according to independence campaigners. China’s fourth most senior leader, Jia Qinglin, is presiding over a series of events in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Affairs (article preview only): An unprecedented need for resources is now driving China’s foreign policy. A booming domestic economy, rapid urbanization, increased export processing, and the Chinese people’s voracious appetite for cars are increasing the country’s demand for oil and natural gas, industrial and construction materials, foreign capital and technology. Twenty years ago, […]
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