Blogger EWSN published an interesting post about publishing system in China: The following item appeared in Xinhua: Beijing citizens are reading more books than they have for years. The Beijing Publishing Authority says book sales in 2004 brought in over 13 billion Yuan. That means that each of the capital’s 13.5 million permanent residents spends […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: For farming families in the lush mountains of Fujian Province, the famous crop is oolong tea and the favorite source of labor is sons. The leafy bushes of tea fill the hillsides the same way young boys fill the village streets. There is such a glut of boys here: roughly […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview.cn: Agilent Technologies Inc, a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, vows to tap the lucrative local market by investing more than US$100 million in China over the next few years. “China represents significant growth opportunities for Agilent as it has become the second largest market for us,” said […]
Read MoreCDN received a submission of the following UPI article, written by Frank Braun: Sergio Gaudenzi, president of AEB, Brazil’s space agency, said his nation hopes to launch a Chinese-Brazilian satellite aboard a Ukrainian rocket from Brazil’s Alcantara launch center sometime after 2007. Brazil’s National Congress has recently approved a commercial treaty signed by Luiz In√ɬ°cio […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: China’s Communist Party has finally cremated its purged leader, Zhao Ziyang, with a condemnation of his “serious mistakes” over the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. But Mr Zhao has left an explosive political testament that may haunt his hardline successors. In a record of an interview in the middle of […]
Read MoreFrom Europaworld: Chinese and Indian farmers who have switched from synthetic fertilizers to traditional forms of organic farming have earned more and achieved a higher standard of living, even though small farmers are often excluded from supportive government reform programmes, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said this week.
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune: Anyone paying attention would notice something odd about the elementary schools here. What the government and parents are awakening to–belatedly–is the danger inherent in what they see. There are too many boys. On the morning that first-semester grades were posted at Haikou City Ying Cai school, students hustled down staircases into […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: China kept a close eye on dissidents Sunday, a sign of the government’s unease over potentially widespread mourning over the death of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who fell from power for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989. Zhao, who died Jan. 17, was cremated Saturday at the main […]
Read MoreThis came to us from blogger Rick Carew: Last week I found out that an obituary of the former Secretary of the Communist party Zhao Ziyang would be published by Xinhua before the end of January. This information was given to our publication so they could prepare to publish an obituary for him. This afternoon, […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Wall Street Journal, via Utopia: China’s leaders may have convinced themselves that the country’s relatively new, albeit unbalanced, material prosperity will be enough to keep an uneasy population from peering into some of the darker corners of the country’s communist history. And the popular reaction (or lack thereof) to purged former leader […]
Read MoreFrom China Herald: Intense policing has stopped until now a public outburst on the internet, after former leader Zhao Ziyang passed away. Initially hundreds of comments flocked to different weblogs, like here at cnblog.org, where over 460 comments were registered before the section had to close down. At its archive, this section is still visible.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The problem of China’s intractable neighbor North Korea developing nuclear weapons could grow even worse for Beijing if the United States seeks United Nations Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. Then what will China do? How will it vote? Will its problem with its old Korean ally become a Sino-US problem – […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily Online: China said on Saturday it will not rush to reform its exchange rate. Senior officials attending the World Economic Forum said currency reform steps would come eventually but the world would have to wait for China to take them at its own, gradual pace. For over a year now, top […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a gathering of Chinese community and human rights groups Saturday to honor the late Zhao Ziyang, former premier of China.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In almost every panel discussion at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum here, there comes a moment when somebody mentions China. A hush typically ensues, as panelists draw their breath, gather their thoughts and struggle to put the bewildering vastness of the topic into a few words. “China […]
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