From Sify.com: “As the first-ever Sino-India strategic dialogue concluded with the desire to address differences in a ‘fair and reasonable’ manner, China expressed hope that both sides will make ‘new moves’ to find an early solution to the vexed boundary issue. ‘We hope that with India’s co-operation, we will be able to solve the border […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “One of the Chinese citizens sought for questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed threat against the city of Boston has been in United States custody for more than two months, the F.B.I. said on Saturday. Mei Xia Dong has been located in a Customs and Border Protection detention facility […]
Read MoreFrom Donga.com: “The agreement between the bereaved family and Chinese authorities on the funeral schedule for the former Chinese Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang, has not been concluded eight days after his death. A source from Beijing said on January 24 that “the bereaved family not only asked to re-assess Zhao Ziyang through a funeral […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “The number of passengers is expected to reach 1.97 billion during China’s Spring Festival transport season, a 40-day period due to beginning on Tuesday, according to forecast of Chinese transport departments. The number is up 3.4 percent over that of last year.”
Read MoreFrom Yahoo! News: “Zhao’s death could yet become a rallying point for change. After all, the Tiananmen Square movement itself sprang from the spontaneous outpouring of grief following the death of Zhao’s reformist predecessor, Hu Yaobang. Similar protests followed Zhou Enlai’s death in 1976. ‘To mourn Zhao is to defend human rights,’ Bao Tong, one […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: “Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend are in good spirits and will return home soon via Jordan, state media say. The eight, kidnapped this month after arriving in Iraq from the southeastern province of Fujian in search of work, were received by Chinese diplomats at a mosque in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “Two senior officials at one of China’s top commercial banks have reportedly disappeared after funds worth up to $120m (¬£64m) went missing. The pair both worked at Bank of China in the northern city of Harbin, the South China Morning Post reported. The latest scandal at Bank of China will do nothing […]
Read MoreFrom iafrica.com: “Several dissidents who planned to commemorate the death of deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang have been detained while other activists are under house arrest, they said on Monday. Zhao, ousted for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died a week ago in a Beijing hospital aged 85. His […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “An ailing unemployed worker in this frigid northeastern city, having exhausted all other options, made one final appeal last month, to President Hu Jintao. In careful ideograms penned from his sickbed, Zhao Lizhong pleaded with the most powerful man in the country to pay attention to the poor and powerless, who, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “Last week, President Hu Jintao delivered a eulogy in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People before 700 senior cadres and the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee. The next morning, the front page of The People’s Daily, the party’s mouthpiece, extolled the ‘outstanding achievements’ of the deceased. Such elaborate […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Columbia Daily Tribune: “Authorities are recording the name of anyone visiting a makeshift memorial at the Beijing home of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died this week, a relative said yesterday. Zhao, 85, lived under house arrest for 15 years after being purged for expressing support for pro-democracy demonstrators who […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “The Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft, new owner of the main production subsidiary of the Yukos oil company, at the weekend announced a contract to supply China with 50 million tonnes of oil by 2010. Rosneft vice-president Yury Matveyev announced signature of the deal in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Itar-Tass news agency […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: “The public security forces try to give the impression this is just another street on just another day. Apart from the police car at each end of the narrow alley, the half-a-dozen or so agents all loiter around in plainclothes. No 6 Fuqiang Alley is a modest, grey-bricked courtyard house of a […]
Read MoreFrom Connecticut News: “A Couple From West Hartford Reached Out To China To Give A Child A Home. They Had No Idea What They’d Started.” “On a beautiful spring morning in Hangzhou, China, a small group of Americans laden with baby bags and diapers maneuvered through a flood of bicycles to get to the registrar’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via Yahoo! News: “India and China will look to strategic issues such as the U.S.-led war on terrorism and their energy security to expand on a steady improvement in ties during talks Monday, officials and experts said. For the first time, their talks will focus on broader issues than disputes when Chinese […]
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