From Asia Times Online: For the hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens who marched in anti-government protests during the past two years to mark the anniversary of the July 1, 1997 handover to Chinese sovereignty, the situation on this anniversary would likely have been embraced as an acceptable response to their pleas. Article 23, […]
Read MoreFrom Voice of America: The United Nations health agency says an influenza outbreak among migratory birds in Northwestern China is far worse than the government had reported. World Health Organization experts who recently visited China’s northwestern province of Qinghai told reporters that five times as many birds have died of the avian flu there as […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via sfgate.com: Textbooks headed for a Japanese school in China were seized by customs officials who objected to the way maps in the books depicted the Chinese mainland and rival Taiwan, an official said Tuesday. The maps showed the mainland and the island in different colors, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, indicating […]
Read MoreABC News Online reports: Australian officials held talks with China over human rights in Beijing yesterday, but one of the more topical issues wasn’t mentioned at all. The annual Australia China Human Rights dialogue spearheads Australia’s efforts to improve China’s often-criticised human rights record. The 9th round of closed-door talks was held in a Swiss […]
Read MoreThe following letter (in Chinese) to the Guangdong High People’s Court has been signed by 2356 journalists from prominent Chinese publications and websites to protest the detention of Southern Metropolis News employees Yu...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s top legislators are considering reducing police powers to detain suspects in order to safeguard citizens’ rights… Under the new draft, the police power to detain suspects for 36 hours and keep them in jail for 30 days, would be cut to a maximum of 12 hours detention and 20 days in […]
Read MoreFrom The Worker’s Daily (in Chinese), thanks to David Kelly from the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore for the translation. Talking about housing, Liu Heping, a 51 year-old Beijing Steel Corporation retiree repeatedly told me in our interview, “I’ve spent my life depressed about it.” He became a soldier in 1971, returned […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: About 1.5 million Chinese die of apoplexy each year on average, making the disease the second largest killer and the leading cause of physical deformity in the country, according to the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). Wang Yongjun, a professor with the association’s neurology branch, said that currently 7 million Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Xinhua: “If I’m not in the teahouse, I’m on the way there” is a popular Chinese saying. Chinese teahouses are the traditional ancient cafes of the east, for getting together and chewing the fat and generally passing the time. In recent years the tradition has been revitalized, becoming fashionable in modern […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The Olympics can be a very powerful driver of economic growth. China plans to spend almost 320bn yuan ($39bn; ¬£21bn) on its infrastructure in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games, the Xinhua state news agency has said. Most of the cash will be spent updating Beijing’s transport links, with 132 kilometres of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pacific Arts: Li Yifan and Yan Wu’s probing, but predictably lumbering documentary “Before the Flood” opens up a can of worms that the rest of the world would be well advised to um, swallow. Or at least digest a little. Once completed, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River will be the […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: The darkest side of China’s miraculous economic takeoff is probably its ever-widening wealth gap, which has become a major source of social unrest. The striations in Chinese society from 26 years of economic reform and opening up run in a remarkable number of different directions: between the eastern coastal and inland regions, […]
Read MoreFrom The New Zealand Herald: Alibaba.com doesn’t have to worry about the 40 thieves. What’s more problematic for the Chinese e-commerce firm is a poor understanding among the public in how to use its services, and a lack of recognised payment methods – issues that global heavyweights eBay and Amazon are also trying to tackle. […]
Read MoreWritten by David C. Gompert, Francois Godement, Evan S. Medeiros and James C. Mulvenon, RAND just published an Analysis of Emerging Chinese Strategic Policies and Their Consequences for Transatlantic Relations: The product of a conference jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri, this volume represents a transatlantic view of Chinese national strategy […]
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