From Forbes: Web media company Yahoo! is in advanced talks to purchase an approximately 35% stake in China’s biggest homegrown e-commerce company for almost $1 billion, in what would be the biggest investment by a foreign company in China’s Internet industry to date, sources close to the negotiations said. Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO – news – […]
Read MoreFrom The Reuters: Hopes faded on Monday for 102 Chinese coal miners trapped by flood waters as state media reported an explosion at a second pit which killed 14 people. Flood waters were rising in the mineshaft in Xingning in the southern province of Guangdong which was inundated on Sunday. “There are 15 million to […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: It may be sad, but it should come as no surprise that Marconi has entered takeover talks with Huawei, the Chinese telecoms-equipment maker. The game has been up for Marconi since April, when it missed out on a share of the work to build BT’s 21st-century network (21CN). This ¬£10 billion project […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Last week congressional bullying drove China to abandon its bid for Unocal, a small California-based oil company. Anyone inclined to celebrate should focus on the likely sequel: China will redouble its efforts to buy energy and other resources in shaky developing countries. This will undermine Western efforts to promote transparency and […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: BEIJING’S reluctance to use outside help with media relations and security is putting the 2008 Olympics on a path to disaster, experts claim. As the world spotlight swings to Beijing with three years to go before the 2008 opening ceremony, the top media official for the Beijing Olympics told The Australian in […]
Read MoreFrom The aipei Times: Former President Lee Teng-hui (ÊùéÁôªËºù) said yesterday that China would not dare to attack Taiwan, because the US has deployed eight nuclear submarines in the Pacific Ocean carrying about 2,000 nuclear warheads targeted at China, preventing Beijing from taking military action against its democratic neighbor. Implying that Taiwan is under the […]
Read MoreBig Eyes (大眼睛) by Xie Hailong; from EastSouthWestNorth.
Read MoreWoman selling fish, thanks to 21mm for the photo.
Read MoreBig Eyes (大眼睛) by Xie Hailong; from EastSouthWestNorth.
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: Which is the single most famous photograph in China? It’s the one known as Big Eyes (“§ßÁúºÁùõ“). Here is the translation from the book (posted here in full) by the photographer Xie Hailong (Ëߣʵ∑Èæô). [translation] The location is Anhui province, Jinzhai County, Taoling Town, Zhangwan Village. It seemed to have rained […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via Howard W. French: IN “2046,” a story of longing and loss, the passage of time is marked not by the hands of a clock, but by the women who pass through one man’s life. The man in question, a newspaper hack, lives in a glorious ruin called the Oriental […]
Read MoreFrom Newsday: China increasingly faces a huge branding problem as it takes its place in the world economy. The nation’s private sector accounts for more than half its economic output; the value of its currency is now allowed to float in reaction to market forces; foreign investment is welcome; and last year China amended its […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Critics of the World Bank are training their fire on the institution’s loans to China, a capital-rich country on a buying spree for U.S. bonds and companies, saying the money should go to needy nations. The World Bank, whose mission is to fight poverty in developing nations, lends to China […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China formally charged a prominent Hong Kong journalist with spying for Taiwan on Friday, ratcheting up a politically sensitive investigation that has also resulted in the arrest of a mainland scholar with ties to China’s president, Hu Jintao. The government decided to charge Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for the Straits […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: In a trading frenzy reminiscent of the tech boom, Baidu.com shares — 13 per cent of the company was sold Thursday at $27 (U.S.) a share — increased 354 per cent in value in yesterday’s trading, closing at $122.54. The share price opened at $66, and traded as high as […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
