Tan Ee Lyn: Vatican, China pact on religion

From The Age: China wants the Holy See to sever ties with Taiwan before it resumes talks about religious freedom. The Vatican is reluctantly ready to cut ties with Taiwan and recognise China if Beijing can guarantee religious freedom, the head of the Hong Kong Roman Catholic diocese said yesterday. China and the Vatican have […]

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Xinhua: Giant pandas get broadband

From Xinhua via China Daily: The Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has been fully covered by a regional telecom network based on Intel’s Centrino mobile technology, said Wu Haishan, PR manager of Intel’s Chengdu business office. Wu said the regional telcom network covers the administrative office building of Wolong Giant […]

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David Toole: My cloth bags get laughed

From Sina Education: President President Hu Jintao ‘s call for more personal responsibility in helping to protect and improve the environment resonates very strongly in my heart; as does the government’s call for a green Olympics. It makes me think about what I can do as a guest who has lived in Beijing for almost […]

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Costs, Coal Cap PetroChina Natural Gas Ambition

From China National News: PetroChina has developed the country’s biggest natural gas field and built a 4,000-km (2,500 mile) pipeline over the past several years. Now comes the hard part. If China’s dominant oil and gas producer is to protect its already thin returns on the $8.5 billion West-to-East pipeline project, it must quickly develop […]

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Reuters: Nine Million Chinese Face Drinking-Water Shortage

From China National News: Drought in China has left over nine million people facing drinking water shortages and could take a heavy toll on spring planting around the country, the China Daily reported on Monday. Farmers planting rice in southern China and wheat in the north could expect little or no water to irrigate lands […]

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Xia Yu: Fresh Flowers and Knife Blades: Japan’s Secret and Shame

From the Southern Weekend (in Chinese), via the Press Interpreter, translated by Joseph McMullin: Recently, because of the controversy surrounding Japanese textbooks and the conflict over the control of several small islands*, Japanese-Korean relations have become extremely tense. There is also a large-scale petition drive that opposes Japan’s intention of becoming a permanent member of […]

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Issei Morita: Business as usual at stores after attack

From the Standard: Ito-Yokado said its six stores in China are operating normally – two days after protesters opposed to Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council smashed windows at an outlet in the country’s southwest… Sino-Japanese tension has been growing, fanned by rivalry over a disputed, potentially resource-rich territory […]

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Chinese workers spread out

From Asia Times: Some 210,000 people were sent to work abroad in the first 11 months of 2004 itself, a 17.3% rise over the year before, and more than 532,000 Chinese workers were based overseas by the end of November last year. These figures indicate that China has emerged from the shadow of the severe […]

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David Lague and Wayne Arnold: China’s diplomatic war over ore

From the IHT: China is applying diplomatic pressure on Australia to keep the Melbourne-based BHP Billiton from doubling what Chinese steel makers pay for the company’s ore shipments… BHP is asking Chinese steel makers to pay almost 20 percent more for its iron ore than they agreed to pay its main competitors, Rio Tinto and […]

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David Pilling: Japan asks China to protect its businesses

From The Financial Times: The Japanese government has asked Beijing to guarantee the protection of its vast economic interests in China amid growing tensions over school textbooks and its campaign for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Hiroyuki Hosada, chief cabinet secretary, said Japanese officials had asked Wang Yi, China’s ambassador to […]

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Kyodo News: Japan again OKs nationalist text, sex slavery glossed over

From KYODO NEWS: Japan’s education ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook Tuesday that critics call nationalistic, immediately drawing flak from China and South Korea. While some of the eight history textbooks approved in the latest round of ministry screenings mentioned wartime sex slaves in simplified terms, most avoided […]

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China yanks books about ties with Japan

From The Japan Times: Two books on Sino-Japanese history and modern political relations have been pulled from shelves in China for undisclosed reasons, after selling about 50,000 copies apiece. “Ambiguity’s Neighborhood” and “Iron and Plough,” both by author Yu Jie, disappeared from major bookstores in late December after four months of normal circulation, Yu said […]

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