From Newsweek: All of China, it seems, is channel surfing on a wave of new entertainment. Cable networks charging $1 or $2 a month have wired up all but the smallest hamlets, and satellite dishes, ostensibly illegal, adorn rooftops across the heartland, netting free programming from as far away as India. A generation ago, just […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily: For Zhang, 35, it’s just go, go, go! In fact, his life resembles an expedition as he digs deep into the “gold mine” of China’s fledgling, yet promising, outdoor activities industry. “In a new market, if you want to get the upper hand, you must strike first,” says Zhang, president of […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Star: Behind the facade of a new strategy for “long term US engagements with the South Asian region” her unusual urgency in building up a “strategic relation with India” has surprised few. There had already been an intriguing nexus between BJP-ruled India and Bush administration forming a Delhi-Washington-Tel Aviv axis. The nexus […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The dramatic last-minute cancellation of a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and visiting Chinese Vice Prime Minister Wu Yi has plunged relations between Beijing and Tokyo to a perilous new low. The incident indicates that recent efforts to improve battered bilateral ties have collapsed, and highlights the complete deadlock […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua,via China Daily: China’s breast feeding rates are 48.7 percent and 60.4 percent respectively in urban and rural areas, indicating that about half of the country’s newborns are fed with artificial-formula milk powder of various kinds, an official on children’s food safety said… Chinese experts on infant medical science hold that heavy workloads and […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: The most important diplomatic relationship in the world is between the U.S. and China. It’s souring and could get much worse. Alas, the U.S. is mostly to blame for this. And the biggest culprit of all is the demagoguery of some Democrats in Congress. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to […]
Read MoreFrom HoustonChronicle.com: BEGINNING with Marco Polo’s sojourn in China in the late 13th century, there have been two Chinas ” the China of the imagination, as interpreted by Westerners, and the real China as experienced by the Chinese. Post-imperial China provided some of the most powerful images of the 20th century. As we still see […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: Nothing but the faint sound of birds nesting on surrounding hilltops can be heard inside this new mountaintop site – part museum, part monument – that is the first public commemoration of one of the darkest chapters in China’s recent past. Inside the circular pavilion that is the site’s centerpiece, the […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The trafficking and sale of narcotics in China, especially heroin and ecstasy, have quickly developed into a battle for the government, according to the country’s drug enforcement body. As China’s market economy has developed a global reach, the country has also become home to a sophisticated underground economy of drug manufacturing, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: MACBETH does a back flip from a 10-foot-high city wall; his queen sings a lament as she wipes imaginary blood from her hands; and the courtiers enact their coup in Han dynasty dress. It is no typical production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” that Spoleto Festival U.S.A. is presenting on Thursday and […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China `strongly opposes’ a European Union plan to impose caps on Chinese exports of T-shirts and flax yarn, the Ministry of Commerce said, adding that the group is sending wrong signals of trade protectionism with the move. The EU used initial numbers of the Chinese exports from the first three months and initiated […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent Online: Chinese-run websites have until the end of May to register their sites or face being shut down as part of a new government campaign to police the Internet, a leading portal announced on Saturday. The registration drive is an effort by the Ministry of Information Industry to clamp down on fraud […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: More than 22 billion yuan (HK$20.68 billion) in “hot money” from overseas entered Shanghai’s property market last year, Xinhua News Agency said, citing a People’s Bank of China report....
Read MoreWomen washing clothes in the Xiang River, West Hunan, from yecao.net.
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: More than 100 relatives of people killed in the Tiananmen massacre have called on the government to apologize as the 16th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. In an open letter by 125 relatives to President Hu Jintao, the Tiananmen Mothers group said the government’s recent accusations against Japan for failing […]
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