From The Christian Science Monitor: Most days, Leng Feng is a mild-mannered marketing consultant. But by Friday, he’s ready for a change of pace. He checks out his auto club’s website, revs up his trusty Citro√´n, and answers the call of the open road. Leng – as he’s known on the Internet – will tackle […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Today: China and North Korea remain in the spotlight in Japan’s defense white paper this year, which outlines Japanese wariness of rising Chinese military power and concern about the North Korean nuclear arms program. The “Defense of Japan 2005” report, compiled by the Defense Agency and endorsed by the Cabinet on Tuesday, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China National Offshore Oil Corporation has withdrawn from the battle for Unocal (click here for the latest), throwing the focus once more on China-US relations. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner in...
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: This is a translation of a column in the print edition of Sing Tao (August 2, 2005, p. A24). August 15 is the 60th anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japan. From a month ago, there have been various commemorative activities that have fanned the nationalistic sentiments of the Chinese people on […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Law-making officials and experts hoped the Internet would play an increasingly important role in boosting the democratic element of the country’s legislation. As China boasts more than 100 million web surfers, the Internet has provided unprecedented scope for expressing different points of view on laws that concern personal rights.
Read MoreDownstream central position of the Three Gorges Dam, from the Flood Hazard Research Centre
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: Secondary school teacher Wang Li, 35, lives with his wife in a 130sqft basement room in Beijing. Last December, he applied for low-cost housing, to which he was entitled due to his low salary and poor living conditions. For 10 weeks, Mr Wang […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Shortly before the U.S. team concluded one of its most successful swimming world championships in history, U.S. men’s team coach Dave Salo expressed surprise that China was not more competitive, saying the nation’s sluggish performance raised suspicions that it was keeping its best swimmers sequestered in China so they could avoid […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: ONE disadvantage of being 60 is that you have to get up in the middle of the night, often more than once. But a big advantage of advancing age is that you get to recognize news media silliness when it happens. This comes to mind in terms of the economic […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Zhu Chenghu (Êú±ÊàêËôé) recently showed his true colors when he boasted in a manner typical of a bully and one accustomed to a rigid social hierarchy. Zhu threatened that if the US intervened in a war between China and Taiwan, China would not hesitate to use […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: As the Communist Party strives to continue the swift economic growth that has become its new ideology, the official partnership with private business has generated resentment among those left behind: farmers whose fields become industrial parks, workers whose socialist-era factories go under, youths with assembly-line jobs at $60 a month. In […]
Read MoreFrom Asia News Network: After a four-year hiatus, Hong Kong director/producer extraordinaire Tsui Hark bounces back in style with Seven Swords, a martial arts flick of good vs evil. All his life, Tsui Hark has wanted to make films that make him happy. “My movies allow me to understand myself better,” muses the visionary Hong […]
Read MoreFrom ComputerPartner: Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc., which counts Google Inc. as an investor, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock market this Thursday in its initial public offering (IPO), according to eNet.com.cn, a Chinese-language news Web site. Baidu, which operates one of China’s most heavily used search engines, at http://www.baidu.com.cn, declined to […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: In a sign that top leaders are growing increasingly worried about unrest in the countryside, the Chinese government has warned citizens that they must obey the law and that any threats to social stability will not be tolerated. The warning came in a front-page commentary published last Thursday in The […]
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