From Reuters, via Independent Online: China has ordered nearly a third of its thousands of coal mines to halt production and improve safety in the world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said on Wednesday. The latest in a series of crackdowns, which have had little if any effect so far, was reported the same day […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Mr. Zhang, 47, is one of China’s best-known artists. For years, his works – like those of other avant-garde artists of his generation – could not be exhibited in China, often because they were deemed too modern or politically questionable. But now his paintings are not only collected by wealthy […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Even as Washington moves to impose new limits on Chinese garment exports to the United States, textile industry executives here say they are already looking a step ahead. They are trying to figure out how their workers can move beyond the simple cutting and sewing of garments into what is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao will seek to play down a perceived economic and military threat to the United States from China on his first visit as head of state while seeking reassurances Washington will rein in Taiwan. Hu’s Sept. 5-17 tour of North America, which includes stops in Canada and Mexico, comes against […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The pictures of Chinese-made sweaters, bras and trousers piled up in boxes in European ports have been a powerful symbol of the “flood” of foreign garments entering the European Union. But the threat to European textile producers – and especially to European jobs – has been wildly exaggerated, experts say. […]
Read MoreFrom Sapa-AFP, via the Mail and Guardian: Angola plans to begin rebuilding its roads destroyed in the 1975-2002 civil war, starting with a 300km stretch between the capital Luanda and the northern agricultural and mining province of Uige, the national road body said on Tuesday. China has granted Angola a $211-million loan to finance the […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged China and other non-signatories to ratify rights agreements to help counter the rise in trafficking of women and children worldwide. High Commissioner Louise Arbour spoke at an Asia-Pacific human rights conference on Tuesday. U.N. agencies say millions of women and children continue to be […]
Read MoreRiot police in action (photo series), via chinesenewsnet.com
Read MoreThe journalist Zhao Yan has been held for 11 months because of the accusation that he leaked state secrets to his employer, The New York Times. As Jim Yardley writes in the NY Times: The accusation, which Mr. Zhao and The Times deny, deprives a defendant in China of almost all rights. Mr. Zhao still […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Beijing-backed chief executive of Hong Kong invited the territory’s entire legislature to come with him to southern China next month, in what would be the largest visit of pro-democracy politicians from here that the Communist leadership in Beijing has ever allowed. A few small groups of democracy advocates did […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: American attention has lately been focused on China’s emergence as a competitor for dwindling oil supplies — witness the uproar over CNOOC Ltd.’s failed bid for California’s Unocal Corp. But a different, yet equally intense, energy rivalry sure to have a dramatic effect on geopolitics has been playing out on the far […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, via ABCNews.com: The barber of Houhai plies his trade the old way: a silver razor moves deliberately over the head, across the face, along the bridge of the nose, down the neck. He moves in unruffled concentration, as if time suspends for his work. In some ways, it does. Jing […]
Read MoreWorldchanging.com has posted a comprehensive overview of their writing on China’s environment: To a very great degree, whether or not we as a planet manage to win the Great Wager depends upon China. The combination of its size, course of economic growth, and existing reliance on pollution- (and carbon-) intensive industries and energy sources lead […]
Read MoreFrom Finance and Development, a quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund: China’s emergence as an economic power and its sheer size have put it firmly at the center of the global economic stage. Its remarkable...
Read MoreFrom The Interfax China: PowerNet Technology, a Chinese online gaming firm, has developed a new online game in cooperation with the China Communist Youth League (CCYL) named “Anti-Japan War Online,” which will begin commercial operation by the end of 2005, a PowerNet official said Tuesday. “The game will allow players, especially younger players, to learn […]
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