From the TIME.com: When it comes to spying, Beijing likes to flood the zone “the Chinese are very good at putting a lot of people on just a little piece and getting a massive amount of stuff home,” says a U.S. intelligence official. The number of Chinese snoops is staggering, if only because average civilians […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Russian general gamely tried on a samurai helmet. The visiting Japanese general donned a Russian fur hat. Together, they watched Russian tanks maneuver across the snow-covered terrain. Japan and Russia are weaving closer military and economic relations, and the reason lies just across the Amur River from here – […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth Weblog: There is a newly published book, The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, written by an American businessman Robert Lawrence Kuhn with the cooperation of the subject, his friends, relatives and associates. I have not read the book, so I won’t say anything. Here are two reviews: […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times: According to Xinhua News Agency’s report on February 1, 2005, China General Environment Protection Bureau on January 18 announced that 30 projects in 13 provinces were illegal, with a total investment of 117.94 billion yuan (US$14.21 billion). This action evoked a huge number of responses statewide.
Read MoreFrom workforce.com: As companies send many of their operations offshore, they are increasingly asking employees born in other countries–but educated and trained in the United States–to return home to work. For example, some multinational companies are relocating Chinese-born employees to Beijing and beyond as a way to tap into that nation’s emerging markets and to […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: Sharan Burrow wants a strong clause spelling out the rights of workers in Australia and China. ACTU president Sharan Burrow will today propose a “strong labour-rights clause” and a focus on promoting opportunities for Australian manufacturers as the price for union support for the free trade agreement the Federal Government plans to […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: The Howard Government will introduce special measures to protect Australian firms from being wiped out by cheap Chinese imports, as it steps up its campaign for a prized trade deal with Beijing. But Trade Minister Mark Vaile said the Government was unlikely to negotiate over China’s questionable human rights record or workers’ […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: In Australia he’d be seen as a canny bush lawyer, but in China Sun Wusheng is little short of a miracle. The 45-year-old former peasant with only seven years of schooling has become a national celebrity by suing building companies for workers’ unpaid wages – and winning. The companies that are flattening […]
Read MoreFrom CTV.ca: When Joseph Song was a young boy, he was one of many Chinese children who roamed the streets working for the little money he would never see. These days, the 19-year-old helps run a sanctuary for street children at what used to be an old chili factory. More and more Chinese children from […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Boston.com: A Chinese dissident who tried to pay his respects to the family of late deposed Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has been detained for threatening national security, a fellow pro-democracy campaigner said on Sunday. Zhang Lin, who played a leading role in 1989 pro-democracy protests in the eastern province of Anhui […]
Read MoreFrom The Industry Standard: EBay Inc. executives this week called China the “largest e-commerce opportunity today” and reaffirmed the online auction company’s plans to invest US$100 million in the country during 2005. “We are doubling down in China because the potential for Internet commerce in that country is simply extraordinary,” Meg Whitman, eBay’s chief executive […]
Read MoreFrom Webindia123.com: Challenged by a larger population, more people without jobs and an aging society, China has lowered its 2005 GDP growth projection in an effort to stress on concerted and sustainable development, reports Xinhua. Towards this end, provincial governments across China have adjusted their annual economic growth projections downward to cool their economies and […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Star: The Prophet Mohammed, in conveying the divine word to Muslims, commanded them to search for knowledge “even though it be in China,” calling such a pursuit a “duty” for the faithful. Ironically today, we should be learning a lot from our friends in the Far East. There has been a recent […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: State-controlled media and censored Internet chat rooms in China have become uncommonly critical of North Korea in the two days since it declared that it had nuclear weapons, even as the Foreign Ministry here has said fairly little. The criticism by state-run media is important because the Chinese government has […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes Last year, Tokyo protested to Beijing about the China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s Chunxiao gas field development in the East China Sea, part of the $2 billion Xihu Trough project, which it believes might extend into Japanese territorial waters.
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