From the Christian Science Monitor: “Pang Rongchang was ready to join Mao Zedong’s revolutionary army in the late 1940s. But before he left his Hubei town, his father did what generations of men did for their sons: secured a wife for him. There was no discussion. The bride was hand-carried to the groom’s doorstep from […]
Read MoreFrom the Beijing Review: With limited oil reserves, China looks for supplementary ways to fuel its economy.
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: “One of the world’s least controlled abortion regimes will be tightened next month, when the Chinese city of Guiyang introduces a pilot programme aimed at halting the widespread termination of female foetuses. The new policy bans doctors from carrying out abortions on most women who are more than 14 weeks into pregnancy. […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via Japan Today: “Police in Henan Province, central China, have foiled a mass public demonstration upset over the allocation of electric power and blackouts, one of the protestors said Wednesday. Public security officers in Xinxi district in the city of Dengzhou got wind of plans for a protest by some 6,000 people […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “Japan on Thursday risked provoking a further deterioration in relations with China, saying it planned to grant Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s former president, a visa to visit the country this month. The decision, which prompted an immediate protest from Beijing, was the latest sign that Japan is hardening its diplomatic stance towards […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: China’s economy is still running on the fast track despite the recent macroeconomic control measures. Experts estimate the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) may hover around 9 per cent this year. Last year, it was 9.3 per cent year on year. Next year, the figure would still remain between 8 and 9 per […]
Read MoreFrom the Associate Press: “Despite a fatality rate 100 time higher than that of the U.S., Chinese officials insist safety standards are improving in that country’s mines. (photo courtesy www.asianlabour.org) BEIJING (AP) – Fires, floods and other disasters killed 5,286 Chinese miners in the first 11 months of this year but safety in the accident- […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: “Now, for the first time on a wide scale, Chinese may pursue a spouse of their own choosing. Only 2 in 10 young Chinese used to choose their life partner; today, 9 in 10 say they have or will, according to a China Daily report. Along with this, a discourse of […]
Read MoreOn Project Syndicate, Cynthia Li wrote: “There is no quick-fix solution to ending China’s AIDS crisis. Officials there must focus not only on developing a pragmatic, realistic healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, but also on bringing about greater openness in China’s media in order to spread life-saving public information. Like all epidemics, HIV/AIDS in China […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Yu Jie, Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zuhua were taken from their homes on Monday and held for about 12 hours. The three men are well-known intellectuals, some of the most critical voices in the public sphere. These detentions could kill any hopes for a period of political relaxation under party leader Hu Jintao. […]
Read MoreVia Yahoo News: Asia Pulse – Highlights of today’s Chinese newspapers.
Read MoreFrom China National News: “A spate of editorial resignations and replacements at outspoken newspapers in China appears to be a sign of tightening media controls, Hong Kong reports say. Li Xueqian, editor-in-chief of the China Youth Daily, known for reporting official corruption, was asked to resign early this month, the South China Morning Post reported […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “In 2004 China’s economic and social development is the best in the past more than 10 years. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by about 9.5 per cent with the urban unemployment rate well controlled below 5 per cent and a big-margin increase for the farmers’ income, which has not been […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Daily News: “Fewer and fewer Chinese are reading books as they have little time and get distracted by new media such as the Internet, state media reported. Only 51.7 percent of all literate Chinese are in the habit of reading books, the Xinhua news agency said, citing a survey of 6,000 people […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times Online: “In a country where the Communist Party still tries – increasingly without success – to control just about everything, especially the media, the Internet is slipping beyond its grasp. Enraged, the party propagandists have declared war on the Internet deployed, it claims, as a weapon against the state. China has […]
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