From CBC News: “China will hold a memorial for Zhao Ziyang this weekend at its main cemetery for revolutionary heroes, a government official said Thursday, after more than a week of wrangling over how the deposed Communist party leader will be officially remembered. The ‘body farewell ceremony’ will take place Saturday morning at the Babaoshan […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world’s leaders, officials and experts said. Eight departments of the Chinese Government announced on Saturday in Beijing that CERNET2 was going into formal operation. “We were a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “Why has the Chinese government been so intent on showing that the former Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was a man of no significance, a man whose life should not be celebrated and whose death should pass unsung? The answer that comes most readily to the historian’s mind is that […]
Read MoreFrom the Herald Sun: ” The Japanese economy’s acute reliance on booming China for forward momentum has been highlighted by China elbowing aside the US to become Japan’s biggest merchandise trading partner for the first time. Chinese iron ore statistics, released following Beijing’s revelation of sizzling December quarter gross domestic product growth of 9.5 per […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “An unexpected improvement in German business sentiment helped to underpin European shares on Wednesday while the yen recouped some of its recent losses as China rekindled speculation of a yuan revaluation. China’s finance minister said it would enter into a “deep dialogue” at next week’s Group of Seven meeting on issues including […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “A Tibetan monk imprisoned by China for nearly three years can no longer walk or speak clearly, according to US-based Human Rights Watch. Tashi Phuntsog, who was released earlier this month, worked with a prominent lama, Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, whom China has branded a ‘terrorist’.”
Read MoreVia ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, from the New York Times: Few business executives watch the growth of the Chinese economy as closely as Michael R.P. Smith, the chief executive of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Yet even Smith was startled when his staff recently projected that in 2034, bank assets in China would surpass those in the […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: China’s economy re-accelerated in the last quarter of 2004, despite official efforts to curb rampant investment. Is it growing too fast to keep its balance? On Tuesday, January 25th, the Chinese authorities sheepishly confessed that the economy beat expectations last year, growing by 9.5%. It finished the year particularly strongly, growing at an […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: ‘The FBI said Tuesday the possible terrorist plot reported against Boston by a tipster last week was a false alarm, and Mexican authorities said it could have been motivated by revenge or might have been a joke. ‘There were in fact no terrorist plans or activity under way,’ an FBI statement […]
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: “Beijing, Jan 25 : A whopping 97 per cent of Chinese customers dine at fast food restaurants, putting the country in the top five out of 28 markets recently surveyed by a leading pollster company, the state media reported today. The Philippines topped the survey with 99 per cent of respondents saying […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: “China is sending a team of scientists to re-measure Mount Everest because they fear climate change is causing the world’s highest peak to shrink. The snow-covered mountain top is believed to have declined by 1.3 metres to 8,848 metres, according to state media reports.”
Read MoreFrom UPI, via the Washington Times: “Former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has been dead eight days, but the government and his family are at odds over how to bury him.” The Reuters also reported...
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: “Taiwan’s new prime minister, Frank Hsieh, pledged Tuesday to seek reconcilation with China as well as with political foes at home. ‘Taiwan’s politics are experiencing a deadlock with the people disappointed at, and tired of, the power struggle between political parties,’ Hsieh said. ‘We need a new scheme, a new […]
Read MoreFrom SI.com : “China punished 17 athletes last year for using performance-enhancing drugs, imposing penalties that ranged from fines to competition bans of up to two years, the government said Monday. China carried out 4,003 drug tests on athletes in 2004, the Chinese Olympic Committee anti-doping office said in an announcement reported by the official […]
Read MoreFrom TBO.com: “China’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in eight years in 2004, growing at an annual rate of 9.5 percent despite efforts to slow its blistering pace in order to avert inflation, the government said Tuesday. The figures exceeded economists’ forecasts and were well above the official target of 8 percent.” Australia’s Herald […]
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