From Reuters: Hong Kong interim leader Donald Tsang resigned on Wednesday in order to run for the city’s top political job in July elections, the government said. Tsang has the blessing of Chinese leaders and is sure to win, political sources say, because the city’s chief executive is currently chosen not by Hong Kong citizens […]
Read MoreFrom Daily Yomiuri On-Line: The Chinese government officially admitted Tuesday the Chinese vice premier’s abrupt return home and cancellation of a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi were due to anger over his recent remarks concerning his visits to Yasukuni Shrine. See also: China still wants Japan to apologise from The Courier Mail.
Read MoreFrom Daily Yomiuri On-Line: For China, committing a diplomatic blunder might have been safer than taking the political risk of going ahead with a meeting between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi. On Monday, Wu suddenly canceled a meeting with Koizumi that was scheduled for that afternoon, citing “sudden duties.” The […]
Read MoreFrom the New Zealand Herald: At first glance, Taiwan’s failure for the ninth consecutive year to gain observer status at the World Health Organisation annual assembly in Geneva is just another manifestation of its never-ending diplomatic tug-of-war with China. After all, it came just three days after Taiwan scored a small victory by winning back […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The Pentagon is preparing to release a report on the Chinese military that warns the US that it should take more seriously the possibility that China might emerge as a strategic rival to the US, according to a senior government official. The report has generated controversy in the Bush administration because […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: As for China , it is true that oil demand shot up 16% last year, and was clearly a force propping up oil prices. However, as with Russia, the current sizzle can be misleading. Last year’s oil boom is simply not sustainable. Much oil […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: High levels of unprotected sex among young people are ringing alarm bells. Figures over the last few years show sky-rocketing rates of sexual transmitted infection [STI], according to Zhao Pengfei from the World Health Organization. “We see, every year, 30 to 40% increases in the reported STI cases. Once HIV-Aids is introduced […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: In the idyllic setting of the Beijing countryside a short drive north of the Great Wall, a secret slaughter is taking place. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of cows have been killed in Dabailou village since the start of the month in a frantic attempt to stem one of China’s worst foot and mouth […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match – the Internet. The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities is one of the grand […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: China has become a major dumping ground for electronic waste and risks becoming the world’s high-tech waste bin, posing hazards for people and the environment, Greenpeace warned… Although China has banned electronic waste from being imported, companies still export the waste there illegally while a lot more is generated domestically, said […]
Read MorePhoto Series of Local Government Buildings, by qianlong via peacehall.com.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: The Communist Party of China (CPC) had 69.6 million members at the end of 2004, a net growth of 1.37 million over the previous year, the latest CPC statistics show. Among them, there were 12.96 million female members, making up 18.6 percent of the total; there were 4.41 million members from […]
Read MoreFrom The China Economic Net China is one of the most potential and most exciting Internet markets in the world, which is a consensus reached by all Internet giants in this Fortune Global Forum.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Beijing’s non-resident population will not keep growing. After increasing by a small margin until 2008, the transient population in the capital will become stable, or even fall, results of a study reported by the Beijing Morning Post showed yesterday. The Beijing Academy of Social Sciences released the results of the 2004 study […]
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