From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “Zhao Ziyang, who died on Monday after 15 years under house arrest, was sacked after opposing the suppression of pro-democracy protests in June 1989. Sources in Mr Zhao’s family say there is still no agreement about what his funeral oration should say. Meanwhile there are reports that a former Tiananmen protester who […]
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: “China today announced a sweeping reform in the university-level education by lifting a five decade-old ban on marriage and childbearing for college and postgraduate students. Addressing a meeting on the sensitive subject at the prestigious Peking University here, Fan Yi, an official with the student affairs department from the Ministry of Education, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC NEWS: “Chinese police have arrested nearly 600 people in 22 provinces as part of their crackdown on gambling, the official China Daily newspaper reported. Police raided two online gambling rings, one of them Taiwan-based, which they suspect may have handled bets worth as much as $60m (¬£32.1m). Gambling is illegal in China, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “Seoul’s city government had decided to change its Chinese name, still known to Chinese by its ancient name of Hancheng. The new name combines two Chinese characters, ȶñÂ∞î, which produce the sound ‘Shouer,’ similar in pronunciation to the South Korean name Seoul, officials said. At present Chinese refer to Seoul as Hancheng (Hanseong […]
Read MoreFrom VOA, via PolitInfo.com: “The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad says eight Chinese workers held hostage in Iraq have been freed by insurgents who kidnapped them earlier this month. The kidnappers said in a video message broadcast Saturday that they decided to release the men after China promised to discourage its citizens from traveling to Iraq.”
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