From The San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. architects retool classic formula for Chinese environment as designers worldwide help transform cities of rising superpower China’s building buzz has reached the Bay Area in earnest. This country’s dramatic construction wave has attracted architects from around the world. Designers big and small, from Madrid to Melbourne — and nowhere […]
Read MoreFrom Sunday Herald: Alarm bells ring in the West as China’s quest for resources means making deals with some of the world’s worst regimes. Top representatives of 46 African countries are this weekend returning from the annual China-Africa Co-operation Forum (CACF) in Beijing with fresh promises of Chinese help in developing their nations. The CACF, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: When two real estate tycoons make preparations to start rival television shows within weeks of fighting each other in court, it has all the looks of an ego-driven catfight. That perception is only reinforced when the tycoons are Donald J. Trump, New York’s brashest developer, and Vincent Lo, a Hong […]
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Read MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreCost of China’s Coal: Miners’ Lives, from liushengmanga, via tom.com
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