Photo: China Calling, from Spectrum online
China Calling, from Spectrum online.
Read MoreJean Kumagai & Marlowe Hood: China’s Tech Revolution
From Spectrum Online: how technology is driving the country’s economic boom, and what that means for the world. …..China’s growing technological prowess: its 300 million cellphone subscribers”the most in the world”its two national wireless carriers, and the hundreds of domestic and foreign service providers and manufacturers that now vie for a share of its burgeoning […]
Read MoreMure Dickie: Blow for China oil investors suing state
From Financial Times: A Chinese court has refused to hear a landmark lawsuit by hundreds of private investors whose oil wells were seized by the state and police have detained their lawyer, people familiar with the case said on Tuesday. The detention of Zhu Jiuhu, a widely respected lawyer, by authorities in China’s northern province […]
Read MoreKeith Bradshe: New facet of Chinese industry
From The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: India excels at polishing diamonds as tiny as a hundredth of a carat. Masters of this craft in Antwerp, Belgium, and in Tel Aviv excel at handling diamonds of a carat or more. But pushing into the broad middle as the newest diamond power is […]
Read MoreJoe McDonald: Detained Reporter Admits Spying
From AP, via SFGate.com: China said Tuesday a reporter for Singapore’s main English-language newspaper has admitted to spying for a foreign intelligence agency, but his wife said he was arrested after a source gave him documents about purged former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died this year. Ching Cheong of The Straits Times was […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts: Beijing searches for love among the park benches – with a little help from mum
From Guardian Unlimited: At 1pm every Sunday, Mrs Shen goes hunting for a husband. Equipped with photos, a resume and oodles of charm and enthusiasm, the 50-something spends the entire afternoon looking for Mr Right among the cypress and ginkgo trees of Sun Yat-sen Park in Beijing. She is not alone. During the past six […]
Read MoreMin Lee: Pro-Beijing lawmaker endorses Donald Tsang
From AP, via Tallahassee.com: A pro-China lawmaker once critical of former colonial administrator Donald Tsang said Sunday she now backs him for Hong Kong’s top job – a sign that Beijing’s loyalists are closing ranks behind the territory’s former No. 2 leader. But lawmaker Choy So-yuk said she hopes Tsang will give up his British […]
Read MorePhoto: Homeless children in the city, from zhishuiweilan, via bulo.163.com
Homeless children in the city, from zhishuiweilan, via bulo.163.com
Read MoreChinese sub may have caught fire in South China Sea: Japanese media
From AFP, via Yahoo! News: A Chinese navy submarine stalled apparently after a fire broke out aboard the vessel while it was submerged in the South China Sea, a Japanese newspaper said. The submarine was being towed Monday above the water by a Chinese vessel towards the Yulin Naval Port on China’s Hainan Island, the […]
Read MoreBruce Wallace: Japan Focuses on One Enemy at a Time
From The LA Times: One of the hottest-selling books here this spring is Ryu Murakami’s “Get Out of the Peninsula,” a novel set in 2010 that portrays a Japan in ruins, ravaged by economic and social collapse. Armies of homeless and unemployed have been cast adrift. Japan’s alliance with America lies in tatters. Chinese and […]
Read MoreRichard McGregor: China to scrap curbs on textile exports
From The Financial Times: China plans to scrap curbs on its textile exports to the US and European Union in the latest escalation of a dispute that is souring Beijing’s trading relations with its two biggest export markets. Bo Xilai, commerce minister, said on Monday China would cancel export tariffs on 81 apparel and textile […]
Read MoreChina to root out violence and porn from online games
From Reuters: China is stepping up censorship of online gaming to root out pornography, eliminate threats to state security and to stop youths becoming addicted, Xinhua news agency said on Monday… New industry standards would require developers to amend games that can cause addiction and a group of “quality games” would be recommended, Xinhua said […]
Read MoreIan Buruma: A sorry state
From Financial Times: Have the Japanese apologised enough for the war? Here are some facts. In 1972, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka told the Chinese that Japan “deeply reproached itself”; in 1982, chief cabinet secretary Kiichi Miyazawa expressed “remorse”; the emperor himself, in 1990, spoke of his “deepest remorse” in South Korea; in 1995, Prime Minister […]
Read MorePhilip P. Pan: Hong Kong Reporter Being Held By China
From the Washington Post: China has detained a prominent member of Hong Kong’s international press corps who traveled to the mainland to obtain a collection of secret interviews with a Communist leader purged for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Security agents apprehended Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper, on April […]
Read MoreChina Daily: Proposed bill to boost Chinese in US schools
From China Daily: A pair of prominent US senators proposed legislation that would encourage Chinese and American citizens to learn each others’ languages, in an effort to improve bilateral cultural and business ties… The legislation authorizes US$1.3 billion in federal funds over five years to provide for Chinese language instruction in US schools. The bill […]
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