From Asia Media: Faison and longtime Washington Post Beijing bureau chief John Pomfret, spoke on Thursday, May 12 at UCLA about their experiences as journalists in China in the nineties in a discussion called “Reporting China: Tales from the Dragon’s Mouth.” In their years abroad, they witnessed the advent of capitalism, power struggles at the […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The Chinese government says there is no need to be alarmed. So far, the only deaths reported from the latest bird flu outbreak are 178 wild geese found on the shores of Lake Qinghai earlier this month… But if there is no reason to be alarmed, why has China rushed to shut […]
Read MoreFrom siliconindia.com: When the going gets tough, the Chinese simply cross the Wall. Faced with a higher tax on exports following pressure from the U.S. and the European Union, large Chinese textile suppliers to Wal-Mart are relocating their manufacturing base to India.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday called for making continuous efforts to improve public security situation, stressing that China needs a harmonious and stable social environment for its development… He described the present public security situation as “good in general”, but noted there also “existed some problems that should not be ignored” and […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today: Yu Quan, like every music act in China, gets almost no income from CD sales, even though millions of its CDs have been sold. As soon as a CD is made, the pirates are on the street, offering them for a fraction of the retail price. Stores sell pirate copies. Legitimate CDs […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Tehran Times: A recent survey has revealed that nearly half of China’s population cannot speak the official dialect, mandarin, despite decades of efforts by the communist government, state media said Sunday. The National Language Commission’s survey also found that many of the 53 percent of China’s 1.3 billion people who can speak […]
Read MoreFrom The TIMEasia Magazine: A Chinese oil company is thinking of bidding for a U.S. one. Does that make sense? Among the advisers to top management at one of China’s biggest oil companies, the deal is code-named Operation Treasure Ship. The plan is for the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) to buy Unocal, the […]
Read MoreFrom China Economy Net: From 2005 to 2008, Beijing plans to invest over 320 billion yuan (US.7 billion) in more than 860 infrastructure construction projects to build a more beautiful, more developed and more prosperous “New Beijing.” Ding Xiangyang, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, made this statement at today’s International […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: The event took place on early April 10, and these posts occurred between April 12 and April 13. Thereafter, all Internet posts on the subject were deleted by the Internet Nanny. So this was a brief window of opportunity in which free exchange of information was permitted to occur. These posts are […]
Read MoreFrom Morgan Stanley: Beneath the surface, however, there is a growing sense of unease in China. Don’t get me wrong ” the backward looking data flow still looks terrific. GDP growth continues to soar ” gains in 2003 were just revised upward to 9.5% (from 9.3%) and the Chinese economy was estimated to be holding […]
Read MoreFrom Channelnewsasia.com: Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi cancelled a meeting on Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that had been billed as a way to resolve bilateral tension and warned Tokyo it must work to turn around ties. Wu, a veteran negotiator, cut short her visit to Japan by one day, keeping appointments with […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT, via the San Jose Mercury News: The Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese government are actively exploring the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, with contacts between the sides warming to the point that the ailing John Paul II quietly received a quasi-official Chinese delegation in the Vatican late last year. In a half-dozen […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: To meet soaring demand for Asia’s newly affluent, venerable names such as Prada and Giorgio Armani are setting up stores as quickly as they can _ and even considering making some of their products here. “China is certainly the most prominent and most important market we have in […]
Read MoreWNYC’s On The Media interviewed CDT’s Xiao Qiang about China’s Internet: Last month, the Chinese government was spooked by a wave of anti-Japan street protests. Not because of what the protesters were...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China recently published the country’s first serial report on environmental topics, written by Zhe Fu, a dedicated environmental writer. The three books are in-depth reports on the environmental situation in the three major river basins of the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Huaihe River. These areas all have encountered serious environmental problems during […]
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