From Time Asia: Chinese authorities say they have identified the virulent disease that appeared in Sichuan province in late June, which has sickened a suspected 212 people so far and killed 38: Streptococcus suis, a bacteria in pigs that very rarely infects human beings. Last week, a team of experts from Hong Kong who assisted […]
Read MoreTyphoon aftermath and repairs at Fudan University, Shanghai, thanks to James Henry for the photo
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Beneath the cracked plaster ceilings of the Honghua Knitwear & Garment Factory, sewing machines sat motionless on a muggy afternoon, idled by a rolling blackout imposed to cope with chronic energy shortages. Laborers lolled on plywood bunks in a cramped and airless dormitory, resting before another illegal night shift. Five miles […]
Read MoreFrom Canada Free Press: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at September’s 2005 China Internet Summit, organized by China’s leading e-commerce company, Alibaba.com. Clinton’s address in Hangzhou, China follows closely on the heels of a final report issued by the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) suggesting that the […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: The mainland’s internet police are keeping a wary eye on messages posted by its 5 million bloggers, although most of them use cyberspace as a channel to express their desire for individualism, according to a leading network expert from the mainland. Hu Yong , […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews the exhibit “Female Buddhas” at the Rubin Museum of Art and Bruce Museum: TIBETANS who trekked to the caves and forests of India to absorb Buddhist teachings a thousand years ago discovered female tantric masters, called yogini, practicing esoteric disciplines with bands of female followers. Fierce, independent and strict, yogini […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The General Administration of Press and Publication of China released China’s first press industrial research report entitled “China National Press Industrial Development Report for Year 2005” at the opening of “The Second Annual Conference on China Press Competitiveness” held recently. The report said that on average, China printed 100 million copies of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Next week will see far larger war games involving Chinese and Russian troops in and around the Shandong peninsula in the Yellow sea. Regional observers say such military cooperation is unprecedented and could mark the start of something new. “The China-Russia exercise is intended to send a message to Taiwan,” said Andrew […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Environmental News Network: Chinese villagers resettled to make way for the massive Three Gorges dam project were harassed by officials and prevented from petitioning the central government about pollution, a human rights group said Tuesday. Five villagers representing the 500 residents of Yangguidian, a village in central Hubei province, were taken off […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: The Chinese Government issued a policy yesterday in Beijing to guide private investments into sectors of the State-owned culture industry. The policy, titled “State Council’s several decisions on guiding non-public capital into the cultural industry,” clearly defines the areas that private investors can access, including the performing arts, theaters, museums, exhibitions, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The thought of Confucius and Confucianism on “the policy of harmonious benevolence” and on “harmonious but different” is of significance to the administrator of a country and to the leaders of the developed countries (particularly the United States) in the world today. A “policy of benevolence” “running the country and bringing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Blogging is blooming in China as the country’s vast pool of Web users clamour to make their mark online and ambitious local start-ups battle foreign heavyweights for a piece of the market. China now boasts a 14.2 million-strong “blogosphere”, with a new blog — a form of online diary whose name is a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Singapore-based Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group, has been accused of illegal logging of natural forest in southwest China’s Yunnan province. The alleged deforestation was done as part of a vast wood-for-paper project, in which APP and the Yunnan government are cooperating. The project area covers almost […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via TodayOnline.com: China has failed to provide adequate health care to most of its citizens and the national health system is unable to properly cope with large-scale epidemics and diseases, the health minister admitted. In a 11-page report, Health Minister Gao Qiang detailed a list of serious problems plaguing the sector and expressed […]
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