From China Daily: An honesty crisis has hit Chinese fledglings as they find an honest quality hardly leads to any benefits. A recent survey polled a total of 700 middle school students, aged from 12 to 16, and found that nearly 90 percent bypass honesty for the sake of interests. Conducted by a district educational […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft) has issued a regulation banning partnerships with foreign broadcasters, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The regulation specifies that “all local TV and radio stations should not rent their channels to foreign companies and also should not co-operate with foreign companies in […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Until recently, China’s view of the global energy map focused narrowly on the Middle East, which holds roughly two-thirds of the world’s oil. Special attention was directed toward one well-supplied country: Iraq. Through cultivation of Saddam Hussein’s government, China sought to develop some of Iraq’s more promising reserves. Beijing advocated lifting […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online The Chinese military is expected to shift its traditional structure by adding new battle units and cutting outdated ones in an effort to create new combat effectiveness, reported Tuesday’s Liberation Army Daily. According to the Headquarters of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), a program […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online: The Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) Tuesday issued a regulation banning any cooperation in channel operation between local TV and radio stations and foreign companies, Wednesday’s Beijing Morning Post reported. The regulation stipulates that all local TV and radio stations should not rent their channels […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China is speeding up legislation of its first anti-money laundering law, the draft of which will be submitted to the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, for review this year… An official with PBC, China’s central Bank, said the law will probably expand the scope of application into the other major areas […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: JINSHA, China (AFP) – Day after sweltering day on the banks of the Modi stream, archeologists are dealing shattering blows to traditional views of Chinese history as they work their way through the parched, yellow earth. One of the world’s great cities once flourished here at Jinsha village in China’s southwest, the […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China Mengniu Dairy and Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial, China’s biggest milk suppliers, are lending money to farmers and building dairies to meet demand for cheese, yogurt and other foods growing at 14 percent a year. China’s Inner Mongolia region, where the two companies are based, plans to import heifers from […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: Top Chinese and US trade officials wrapped up day-long negotiations in Beijing July 11 with a consensus on intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. The annual session of the Joint Committee on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) was jointly chaired by Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi, US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (Sub. required): The board of CNOOC is expected to meet on Wednesday to approve changes to its $18.5bn takeover bid for Unocal following several weeks of negotiations with the US oil and gas group. CNOOC directors will also consider granting management a green light to raise the state-owned Chinese company’s offer […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China is not competing for world resources but is merely trying to promote mutual development, according to a key government minister. Chen Jian, assistant minister of commerce, said yesterday that concerns China is competing for world resources are incorrect, despite the country’s increasing investment in overseas resources. “China’s overseas co-operation in […]
Read MoreFrom IPS: For former political prisoner Adhe Tapontsang, the 27 years she spent in a Chinese jail, for aiding the Tibetan resistance in the 1950s, was sheer hell.
Read MorePhoto series: School of migrant workers’ children on top of the roof, Wuhan, Hubei Province; by mingonglei, via forum.chinesenewsnet.com
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: A Chinese government official has blamed overproduction of coal for causing the mine explosion that killed 81 in Xinjiang autonomous region. Li Yizhong, director of the State Administration for Work Safety, said overproduction, lack of a work safety license and bad management should be blamed for the accident, the Xinhua news […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via NEWS.com.au: JAPANESE customers must apologise for their country’s wartime occupation of China before getting a seat at a restaurant in former Manchuria or find another place to eat, Japan’s Kyodo news agency has said. No Japanese had tried to enter the restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin since it started […]
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