From Boston.com: A court in south China jailed a Chinese journalist for 10 years on Saturday for illegally providing state secrets to overseas organizations, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in February that China had the most journalists in prison, 42, of any country for the sixth […]
Read MoreFrom A Glimpse of the World: One reason is that some people simply do not like and do not trust the Japanese. But there is another reason for this stereotype: some Japanese individuals say things in public that tend to only fuel people’s fears and make them think the very worst about Japan, one of […]
Read MoreFrom The INternational Herald Tribune: Within days of the last Marine helicopter lifting off from the American Embassy in Saigon on April 30, one could see a new regional power balance taking shape. It was a very different order from the one that the Kennedy administration had feared when it committed troops to Vietnam more […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: Chinese authorities have green-lighted Google’s plans to open the company’s first office in Mainland China, which will allow the world’s largest search engine to further localize its operations, but will also significantly intensify competition in China’s online search market, analysts said… Although Google has yet to disclose where the company will set up […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China’s currency traded briefly outside its tightly controlled band on Friday, triggering a renewed wave of speculation that the government was preparing to allow a long-expected revaluation. The unexpected price move followed weeks of international pressure on China to allow the renminbi to appreciate. But the People’s Bank of China, the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Rep. Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, was sworn in as the new United States trade representative today following the Senate’s approval of his nomination early this morning… With record trade deficits and mounting concern in Congress over China’s handling of its currency as well as its violation of international trade […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Times: Beijing’s public security chief has publicly stated for the first time that the anti-Japan protests in the capital April 9 were illegal, and underscored that authorities will crack down on any other unlawful acts, a local newspaper reported Friday. “We fully understand the public and students’ patriotic feelings,” Ma Zhenchuan, director general […]
Read MoreFrom Sina.com: Visitors to MAM’s [The Millennium Art Museum‘s] new underground art center on western Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue, might be startled the first time the framed “still-lifes” on display start magically moving, speaking, and even swapping positions with other artworks meters away. In some cases, the near-instantaneous exchange might involve works from museums that are […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: Taiwan would be willing to reopen its doors to two Chinese media outlets so long as Beijing lifts its blackout against the online versions of two Taipei-based newspapers and refrains from blocking its local press groups from posting reporters in Taiwan, a senior official said yesterday… On April […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: China President Hu Jintao called Taiwan opposition Nationalist Party Chairman Lien Chan a “friend” and said their landmark meeting today shows the determination of the political rivals to forge peaceful ties. Lien and the Nationalists are “friends from afar,” Hu, 62, said today as the two prepared to hold private talks. Their meeting […]
Read MoreFrom ABC: Taiwan’s top policy maker for China said the government was disappointed with the results of opposition leader Lien Chan’s meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, saying it did not help bilateral relations.
Read MoreFrom AP, viaMSNBC.com: Taiwan’s opposition leader met with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday, capping a historic reconciliation between his party and mainland communists whose civil war split China in 1949. In a ceremony televised live in both China and Taiwan, the two men shook hands in the Great Hall of the People, the seat […]
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Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Chinese authorities announced Tuesday that 16 youths had been formally arrested and 26 others temporarily jailed in connection with violent anti-Japanese protests that erupted 10 days ago in Shanghai. The announcement, via the official New China News Agency, appeared to be a warning to any Chinese who might be planning more […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: When the daily rhythm of factory work at Wuxi New District winds down, thousands of labourers file out of the rectangular buildings housing the production line of Sharp, the Japanese electronics group, to return to their living quarters… For these Chinese workers, the recent wave of anti-Japanese protests across the country […]
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