From Insidecostarica.com: “While the United States has its gaze trained elsewhere, China has been nudging its way into South America. Its influence could perpetuate a weak economic model based on commodity exports, and exacerbate the already serious problem of corruption, according to analysts, who identify these as the immediate risks posed by the sudden interest […]
Read MoreFrom: China Economic Net: “The State Family Planning and Population Commission, the nation’s leading population think-tank and policy shaper, predicts that from 2000 to 2007, the number of residents 65 or older will grow throughout the nation from just under 100 million to more than 200 million. That means a jump in elders of more […]
Read MoreFrom TruthNews: “Is Russia positioning itself to become China’s major supplier of oil and gas in the near future? This frequently asked question took on new significance on 21 December when President Vladimir Putin — explaining the “perfectly normal” procedures implemented during the auction of Yukos’s main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz — told reporters in Schleswig, […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: “China’s growing reliance on imported oil, pollution and looming water shortages pose the major threats to its economic development, a senior World Bank (news – web sites) official said Thursday. “The sustainability issues in China are the key issues in the next three to five years and the ones that […]
Read MoreFrom United Press International, via the Washington Times: “China’s leaders have moved to protect the peoples’ right to petition local governments, and clarified procedures through which complaints may be submitted.”
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “A source from the Internet Society of China’s anti-spam team on Wednesday said China has become the world’s second largest source of spam, after the United States. The source acknowledged that 180 of 400 IP addresses blocked by the International Anti-Spam Organization in November 2004 were Chinese.”
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: “A Tokyo shrine for war dead that has been a source of friction with China has had its Web site attacked repeatedly by mass attempts to access the site and mailings apparently launched from within China, a spokesman for the shrine said on Thursday.”
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “A bridge in eastern China that had become a notorious suicide spot has seen a dramatic reduction of deaths in the last year, after one man began voluntarily patrolling it.”
Read MoreFrom LA Times (sub required): “China’s presence in the global effort to aid tsunami victims is hard to miss here. The country’s large, red tents are pitched in the middle of the town’s air force base, the center of regional relief operations. Its team, which includes 16 emergency doctors, is larger than that of any […]
Read MoreVia Openflows Networks, from AFP: “Chinese authorities have called for greater surveillance of internet content claiming that the medium posed a serious danger to China’s people and culture. The latest issue of Seeking Truth, the Chinese Communist Party’s key political magazine, warned of the internet’s powerful influence on politics, economics, cultures, and society, which could […]
Read MoreFrom Emagazine.com, Cathy Shufro wrote: “In the land where 85,000 dams have bloomed, the builders of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir in China are poised to begin another project. The giant hydropower company plans to...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim reported: “China’s aid pledge to Asia’s tsunami victims, its largest ever for a humanitarian crisis, is a bid to expand its influence in the region where its diplomatic might has lagged its transformation into an economic powerhouse. Premier Wen Jiabao, who arrived on Wednesday for a tsunami summit in the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “Zhang Jie, 21, a junior student at Xi’an University of Finance and Economics in the capital of northwestern China’s Shaanxi province, spends more than 5,000 yuan (US$604) every semester. “The tuition fee is about 3,200 yuan and other expenses are around 400-500 yuan [$48-60] a month,” said Zhang. Her annual consumption […]
Read MoreFrom Big News Network: “The Chinese city of Chongqing has set up a body to monitor environmental protection for the controversial Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River. Chongqing, one of China’s four super-cities with provincial status, established the Three Gorges Reservoir Administration Tuesday, the local Xinhua branch reported. The body will oversee water quality […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Weekly, Catherine Bennett wrote: “Soon after China implemented its one-child policy in 1979, reports reached the West of a new breed of plump, pampered creatures who had never learned to share. They were called Little Emperors, and nobody said “No” to them. It was as if Britain had decided to spawn millions of […]
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