From China Daily: Sex just once a week is totally unbearable,” reads complaint letter to a popular newspaper based in Shenzhen, a boomtown in South China’s Guangdong Province that is built on the shoulders of countless migrant workers. The letter, sent by over 30 migrant workers, all married men in their robust 20s or early […]
Read MoreFrom Channel4.com: It’s not in the G8, but China’s busy investing in Africa’s future in everything from the oil industry to luxury hotels. Lindsey Hilsum reports.
Read MoreFrom The Independent Online: It’s the nightmare scenario that environmentalists dread. What happens when China’s 1.3 billion people (and counting) get the cars and air conditioners that people in the West take for granted? Whither the planet when China’s income per capita, currently about $1,000 (¬£570), starts approaching the UK’s $26,000? Once the preserve of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via China Economic Net: In the market that is home to the world’s largest population of children, Chinese cartoonists are desperate to attract investments as they struggle to draw their own future and leave their marks on society. “We can’t depend on the domestic market to cover our big costs. That’s why, […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston.com: An American human rights activist said she was interrogated by Chinese state security and narrowly escaped detention in Beijing last month, the latest indication of a tightening climate for media and intellectuals. Sharon Hom, executive director for the New York-based Human Rights in China, told Reuters late on Sunday night that security […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: Japanese companies should diversify their businesses to Asian countries outside China because of concerns that Asia’s second-biggest economy is overheating, the trade ministry said in a White Paper yesterday. Toyota Motor Corp., Sony Corp. and other Japanese companies have been moving some factories to China to take advantage of lower labor costs and […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China must be more transparent in its efforts to control the spread of the bird flu virus, and curb the use of human antiviral drugs to treat poultry, a senior UN official said. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech said the reported use of human antiviral […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu: Absence of progress on an oil pipeline to China may reflect Russia’s displeasure with Beijing’s reluctance to diversify its commodity-dominated imports from Russia to include machines and equipment. China has also been dragging its feet over supporting Russia’s joining of the World Trade Organisation. This topic on the Web, via Google News.
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The Chinese government on Monday sharply criticized the United States for threatening to erect barriers aimed at preventing the attempted takeover of the American oil company Unocal Corp. by one of China’s three largest energy firms, CNOOC Ltd. Four days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging the […]
Read MoreA scene from the countryside in southern China, by tanzhizhijian, from wenxue.com
Read MoreFrom China Daily: To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, top Chinese rock’n’roll bands and singers will gather in Beijing’s Workers Stadium tomorrow to perform a string of revolutionary songs. It will be the largest performance ever staged by Chinese rock stars…… Some accuse the performers of yielding to commercialism […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via The Asia Pacific Media Network: The company that launched China’s leading blog portal plans to list on the technology stock-heavy Nasdaq exchange by the second half of next year and hopes to achieve a market capitalisation of more than US$1 billion, company officials said yesterday. “I expect we […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Like the rest of U.S. industry, Hollywood has seen the future, and it is China. Some of the biggest movie studios are now scrambling onto the mainland and planning to invest more than $150 million over the next few years in China’s burgeoning film industry. Walt Disney Pictures may even […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post (registration requuired): Vice-minister says protests inevitable as country undergoes huge changes. Violent protests by the mainland’s farmers are inevitable due to the country’s...
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: Ming Pao Enterprise Corp, publisher of Ming Pao Daily News, aims to spin off and list its Chinese media joint venture by September. Keith Kam Woon-ting, general manager of the group’s newspaper unit, said yesterday that getting 60 per cent-owned One Media Group listed […]
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