From The BusinessWeekly Online: A top official of China’s only union discusses duking it out with Wal-Mart, recruiting migrants, and gearing up for labor arbitration Li Jianming, 53, is a Beijing-based division chief of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the 80-year-old official union that today has 137 million worker members spread across China. […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeekly Online: The 2008 Beijing Olympics don’t look like much today. At most of the sites around the city, ground has barely been broken. But look a little closer and you’ll find that the games have already had a dramatic impact in the form of a thorough pollution clean-up. China’s leadership knows the […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeekly Online: CEO Edward Tian discusses the challenges of running the state-owned telco and the “50% business and 50% politics balance” it entails As chief executive of China Netcom, the country’s second-largest fixed-line carrier, 42-year-old Edward Tian has learned the delicate art of keeping foreign investors happy while answering to the company’s ultimate […]
Read MoreFrom JoongAng Daily: As more and more Chinese counterfeits of Korean products appear in stores, Korean manufacturers are worrying that the credibility of their brands may be in jeopardy. A report provided to Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics last week asserted that two-thirds of electronics shops in four major Chinese cities ‚Äï Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Once a hamlet of rice and vegetable farmers, Taishi Village now lies near the epicenter of southern China’s export-driven transformation, and many of its 2,000 residents work in factories and live in two- and three-story houses. But in recent weeks villagers have waged a bitter, sometimes violent, struggle with the […]
Read MoreFrom The Interfax China: The Chinese Government unveiled a new system Tuesday to prevent individuals from playing online games for more than three consecutive hours, which must be installed for every online game in the country. “This timing mechanism can prevent young people from becoming addicted to online games,” Kou Xiaowei, Deputy Director of the […]
Read MoreA nurse at the 535 Hospital, Huaihua, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: With the first official visitto the US by Hu Jintao since he became China’s presidentin 2003 only weeks away, diplomats are already engaged in the management of nuance. Should it underline personal ties with President George W. Bush, with a barbecue visit to his Crawford ranch, or be cemented by an […]
Read MoreFrom The Reuters AlertNet : A pig-borne disease that killed nearly 40 people in southwest China has claimed a victim in the far south, bordering Hong Kong, state media said on Tuesday, a day after the government said it had brought the outbreak under control. The new death and three separate infections were reported in […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: Rudyard Kipling and other 19th century writers called it the Great Game: British-held India and Czarist Russia playing out their imperialist ambitions on the vast and largely uncharted black hole of Central Asia that lay between them. More than a century later, there’s a new “Great Game” under way in […]
Read MoreFrom The Time Asia Magazine: For all its reputation as the city of tomorrow, a place that will marry capitalism and cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It’s a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows […]
Read MoreFrom The Foreign Affairs: The Man Who Changed China, a state-sanctioned portrait of Jiang Zemin, reflects the image that China’s new leaders want their people to see: pragmatic, moderate, and above politics. The vision, however, does not often match reality. Bruce Gilley is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at the New School University in New […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder, via Siliconvalley.com: A look around China shows a handful of surprising advances in scientific niches, such as gene research, biomedicine and certain aspects of electronics. China’s technological capacity is beginning to climb. Whether, and how quickly, China scales the technological ladder is no small matter for the United States, which holds a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: For multinational companies grappling with stagnant sales, China has become a magnet for investment and a huge potential market beckoning with growth. Yet the lure of China profits combined with pervasive local corruption is tempting foreign companies and managers and bringing them into conflict with U.S. anti-bribery laws. In interviews, China-based […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: China’s rapidly widening income gap has reached dangerous levels, risking social instability by 2010 if the present trend continues, a government report warns. “China’s growing income gap is likely to trigger social instability after 2010 if the government finds no effective solutions to end the disparity,” the Ministry of Labour […]
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