From CBC News: Amnesty International has called on the Chinese government to release all people imprisoned during the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests and arrest those responsible for the massacre. “We reiterate our call on the Chinese government to conduct an independent inquiry into the killing of unarmed students and demonstrators,” the London-based rights group […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Las Vegas SUN: The number of people killed in flooding in China’s mountainous south has risen to 68, with another 62 missing after torrential rains washed away houses and livestock, the government said Friday. Most of the deaths were reported in Hunan province, where 47 people have been killed and 53 were […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CBC News: Sixteen years on from the bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square and China’s grip on dissent has tightened under the leadership of President Hu Jintao, disappointing those who hoped he might represent a more tolerant leadership. From religion to the media, political activism to the Internet, Hu’s regime watches all – […]
Read MoreFrom The New york Times: After more than eight months of investigation, state secrets and fraud cases against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times have been turned over to prosecutors for indictment, Chinese authorities said yesterday. This important legal step suggests that the authorities plan to bring the researcher, Zhao Yan, to trial […]
Read MoreFrom amh.com.au: Australia is negotiating conditions to export uranium to China. The federal government has been holding talks with Beijing for weeks on a regime of nuclear safeguards that could kickstart a lucrative uranium export trade to China, The Weekend Australian reports. Nuclear energy is banned in Australia but the issue is being hotly debated […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: Any talk about Western economic prospects will soon turn to China. Its exports are the top threat to Western manufacturers and have brought price deflation to the high street. China’s capital spending boom and rising living standards also offer tantalising prospects for exporters in the stagnant eurozone or Japan. By expanding output […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China and Russia reached a final agreement yesterday on their eastern border, putting an end to 40 years of negotiations, China’s foreign ministry said according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, exchanged documents ratified by their parliaments agreeing to share the last […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: China’s chief securities regulator has vowed to better legislate the country’s ailing stock markets, acknowledging that much work lay ahead to restore investor confidence. “There will be more legislative efforts put in place soon,” said Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Thursday. He said Beijing would increase the accountability […]
Read More“A Driver’s Nightmare On The Bund Road“, Shanghai, from beifan.com
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: At this point, skeptics may recall that similar fears about a new global competitor rose in the 1980s, when it appeared that Japan might gain an insurmountable technology lead. Japan built plenty of science parks and even imported Americans to teach Silicon Valley ways. The American press issued grave warnings about the future […]
Read MoreFrom The Spectrum online: Such rapid expansion brought concerns about the quality of education”there are only so many professors to go around, after all”so the government began inviting foreign schools to set up educational programs in China. There are now 800 such cooperative efforts, the majority run by U.S. schools. “We were eager to cooperate […]
Read MoreFrom The Spectrum onlin: When Zhang, a graduate student at Beijing University, decided to upgrade his computer to the Chinese version of Microsoft Windows XP, he knew exactly what to do. A quick search on Google turned up a couple of open-access FTP servers right in Beijing, one in China’s top science school, Tsinghua University, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via YaleGlobal: Automakers may see China as a growing market, but soon they may face unexpected competition from a number of manufacturers who are seeking to export to the West, as well. Several Chinese companies have already begun a trial run in the Middle East to prepare for the US market, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Economic Net: Areas suffering from soil erosion in China stood at 3.56 million square kilometers in 2004, accounting for 37.1 percent of the country’s total land areas, according to a report on the country’s environmental status quo publicized by the State Environmental Protection Administration on Thursday.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The chronic power shortages in many regions of China beginning in 2002 have made it crystal clear that one of the biggest obstacles hindering China’s “peaceful emergence” blueprint is energy. The issue is not only economically vital, but has diplomatic and military implications. But the cause of the shortages was not, […]
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