From Ap, via The Cheboygan Tribune: China’s third-largest oil producer made an unsolicited $18.5 billion bid Thursday for U.S. oil company Unocal Corp., marking the communist nation’s most ambitious attempt yet to acquire a Western company and setting the stage for a possible showdown with U.S. politicians concerned about potential national security issues. The purchase […]
Read MoreThanks to David Kelly from the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore for the following translation. The original Chinese commentary is by Liang Jing, from Radio Free Asia (via ncn.org). Before dawn on 11 June, 2 to 300 camouflaged persons of unclear status attacked residents of the village of Shengyou in Dingzhou County, […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: A little-known but vibrant underground queer women’s community exists in China, especially in Beijing and Shanghai, where bars and online chat rooms keep “lalas” connected. UPDATE: According to Danwei, this article originally appeared in a different form on Pacific News Service. Technorati Tags: China, lesbian
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: A World Health Organization official said on Wednesday that China is working to isolate outbreaks of avian flu in the west of the country and investigating claims that Chinese farmers misused human anti-viral drugs to fight the disease among poultry. But he stressed that health officials remain concerned about the […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via YaleGlobal: As part of a drive to both improve the rule of law and encourage entrepreneurship, China is seeking to improve its patent regulations. For Chinese inventors, patents both in China and abroad mean increased revenue and access to new markets. Unfortunately, despite the many efforts that Chinese innovators […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Back in March, Wang Li, a 35-year-old college teacher in Beijing, pitched a tent and lived in it for more than 50 days. But Wang wasn’t on a holiday camping trip. She was waiting for a chance to buy an affordable house. The teacher’s plight is shared by many in Beijing.
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: Police have arrested 22 people over a deadly mob attack on a village whose residents have refused to leave their land to make way for a power plant, Xinhua news agency reported. A construction contractor and 21 accomplices were arrested in the northern Hebei province and are being charged with killing […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: Chinese hackers have defaced the website of a police-run security company leading a new effort to strengthen government control over the Internet. The attack against the website of Beijing General Security Service came amid its drive to recruit a corps of 4,000 ‘Internet security guards’ to monitor the […]
Read MoreThe Online Journalism Review has published comments by a roundtable of experts talking about the state of blogging in China: Good news and bad news come intertwined in China, especially in its online world protected by the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield — technological attempts to control what’s said and viewed on the Internet. […]
Read MoreOn Danwei, Joel Martinsen summarizes Chinese press reports about the recent release of historical files in Guangdong: On Tuesday, the provincial archives in Guangdong formally opened 127,031 historical files to the public. These files cover the time period between 1949 and 1974, and hence include a large number of documents from the Cultural Revolution. They […]
Read MoreESWN writes: This story appeared in Nanfang Daily on June 22, 2005. On the day before, Nanfang Daily published an article about Dagang Town, Panyu City, Guangdong Province. The story was about how 1,147 villagers filed a joint complaint to the National Land Administration Department to demand the return of 19 hectares of land that […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): Flush with cash and a strong desire to expand their global reach, Chinese companies have stepped up their shopping spree to acquire U.S. assets, highlighted Tuesday by reports of a possible bid for Unocal Corp. and an offer for Maytag Corp. Mainland Chinese investments in the United […]
Read MoreFrom AsiaNews.It: Kim Jong-il , the North Korean leader, last week told a South Korean envoy he would get rid of his country’s nuclear arms once diplomatic ties with the US are “normalised”. Kim Jong-il reportedly said this in a meeting last Friday with Unification Minister Chung Dong-young in Pyongyang. Briefing the South Korean cabinet […]
Read MoreOn The Morgan Stanley site, Andy Xie wrote: China’s oil imports declined by 1.2% YoY in the first five months of 2005. US oil inventory increased by 6.4% in the first quarter of 2005. However, oil prices averaged 46% higher in these five months of the year and 50% higher in the first quarter, on […]
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