Photo: Local vendor, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for the photo
Local vendor, thanks to Natasha Pickowicz for the photo
Read MoreEU-China textile talks run into fourth day – AFX
From Forbes.com: The European Union and China began a fourth day of talks Sunday on a textiles dispute that has left millions of items of Chinese-made clothing blocked at European ports. The garments are being stockpiled because they exceed an EU quota imposed in June to protect European manufacturers, but angry European retailers have now […]
Read MoreVillages threaten more revolts against pollution
From AsiaNews: Residents of villages of Dongyang County are ready to take up arms to force factories causing pollution in the area to shut down. The local government had promised to close or relocate the factories after an uprising on 10 April. “The local government said it would clear the factories out by August 26, […]
Read MoreHackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites – Bradley Graham
From The Washington Post: Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several...
Read MoreChina’s poorest will suffer – Will Hutton
From the Guardian: It is difficult to convey to those who haven’t seen it just how vast and poor is China’s agricultural hinterland. Westerners see the 21st-century skyscraper skylines of Shanghai, Beijing or Guangzhou, the exploding city 100 miles from Hong Kong, and think they are astonishing. Which they are; the spectacle never fails to […]
Read MoreBeijing Starts Trial Calculation of Green GDP – CRI
From CRI English: Beijing is attempting to calculate the city’s “green” gross domestic product (GDP), the Beijing News reported Friday. The experiment is scheduled to figure out the “green” GDP of 2004 by the end of next year based on the formula of “conventional GDP minus environmental losses”… The report lists the ten fields that […]
Read MoreChina commits to market overhaul – Geoff Dyer in Shanghai and Francesco Guerrera
From The Financial Times: Shang Fulin, the head of China’s capital markets regulator, continued to show a deft political touch yesterday with the announcement that his plan to overhaul the stock market would continue full-steam ahead. The statement from five government departments commits China to reforming the shareholder structure of all its 1,400 listed companies […]
Read MoreEconomic census reveals China’s hidden businesses – Richard McGregor
From The Financial Times: China has completed its first national economic census, an epic statistical survey involving 10m data collectors sent across the country to register large hubs of business not picked up in conventional reporting. The census should also help improve the quality of Chinese economic statistics which, after years of criticism and promises […]
Read MoreChina goes whole hog on share reforms – Asia Times
From Asia Times Online: Government stock market regulators announced August 24 that the share merger reform would be extended to the whole market, sparking a smart rally on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses. Five departments of the national government announced guidelines pushing the reform process ahead, after the pilot projects on share mergers proved successful […]
Read MoreWho’s to Blame for South China’s Oil Shortage? – Wang Yichao
From Caijing.com: On August 18 at 8:30, after having waited in line for half an hour, Wang Yu, an employee of a communications equipment manufacturing firm in Shenzhen’s Nanshan Disctrict, was still unable to fill up his gas tank. Guangzhou and Shenzhen have been faced with a lack of refined oil for quite some time […]
Read MoreASEAN Center of Contemporary Chinese Studies in offing
From The People’s Daily Online: Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are making preparations for the establishment of the ASEAN Center of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital in November. The center is designated to offer governments of the 10 ASEAN members consultations regarding China-related policymaking, and its activities aims at […]
Read MorePhoto: A miner, from liushengmanga, via tom.com.
Cost of China’s Coal: Miners’ Lives, from liushengmanga, via tom.com
Read MorePhoto: Anti-Japanese demonstration at Beijing, April 16th 2005, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Anti-Japanese demonstration at Beijing, April 16th 2005, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Read MoreChina’s drive to host best Olympic games – Geoff Cumming
From the New Zealand Herald: National pride apart, it’s difficult to see how residents in the hutongs will gain from China’s hosting of the the multi-billion-dollar 29th Olympic Games. Shao Liu’s home is one of 11 clustered around a courtyard, extended families sharing a single toilet. Although vast swathes of hutong and siheyan (courtyard-style housing […]
Read MoreSex and the City (and China’s media crackdown) – Pietro Ventani
From Asia Times: Wait a minute: what is a show about a group of single women obsessed with shoes and sex doing on China’s primetime TV schedule? Aren’t China’s TV censors known for diligently filtering out any content that is deemed unsuitable? Welcome to the grey area of China’s media policy, a zone where foreign […]
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