From Bangkok Post: The British prime minister’s proposal for a tourism boycott of Burma, raised before Britons and the leaders of the international community, is an idea which, if implemented, would do more harm than good to the people of Burma. The boycott would be intended as a sanction against the military regime’s poor human […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China has become an important country in fighting against money laundering and terrorist financing by actively taking part in international cooperation, Deputy Governor of The People’s Bank of China Li Ruogu said here Wednesday. Speaking at an international conference entitled “Creating Global Partnership and Synergy in the Fight Against Money Laundering,” […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via TurkishPress.com: China’s 2005 budget deficit will amount to some two percent of gross domestic product or 300 billion yuan (36 billion dollars), down from a budgeted deficit of 319 billion yuan in both 2003 and 2004. The budget will be presented for approval by Finance Minister Jin Renqing at the upcoming annual […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via Interest!ALERT: Chinese authorities ordered a news blackout on Monday’s coal mine explosion as the death toll climbed to 209 Wednesday, local journalists said. The propaganda department of Liaoning province in northeast China denied local journalists access to the mine in Fuxin city and ordered them not to report on the story, the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: They work in one of the world’s most hazardous industries, tunneling far beneath the earth’s surface for coal to power China’s booming economy. But two days after a gas explosion killed 209 people at the Sunjiawan mine in the country’s most deadly mining accident in decades, miners in this northeastern […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Hopes are fading for five Chinese coal miners still missing after a blast in a mine killed 210 colleagues on Monday. Rescue operations are winding down at the mine, which is in the north-eastern city of Fuxin, in Liaoning province. The accident was the deadliest reported by China’s mining industry since the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The glitz is gone from celebration for North Korea’s leader… The toast, which in previous years focused on Korean-Chinese friendship, this year concentrated on praise for Kim and ended abruptly with the consul general clinking his glass against those of his visitors.
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Peking University Professor Ding Yuanfu has presented a survey of governmental and non-governmental experts, most of who predict that a crisis with a big effect on China’s economic and social development will occur before the year 2010.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China is now fast emerging as a charity superpower after the Andaman Sea tsunami, the first foreign disaster to be given saturation coverage by the highly competitive media born of the booming economy and the Internet. Chinese civic groups, able to learn slick fundraising tactics from charities overseas thanks to the […]
Read MoreFrom the LA Times: China is likely to employ a combination of incentives, arguments and mild scare tactics in coming weeks as it tries to persuade North Korea to resume negotiations aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. But it won’t be easy to succeed, analysts say, given the complexities of dealing with the isolationist […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder Newspapers: Hardly a month goes by without new irritants in relations between Japan and China. Recent grievances range from a soccer riot and submarine intrusion to dominion over a lighthouse and the granting of a visa to an octogenarian. The public mood in each country is souring toward the other, prompting some […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Taiwan’s government has launched an emergency package to save the island’s health insurance scheme from imminent bankruptcy. The crisis of the scheme, which is running aground only 10 years after its creation, highlights the difficulties shared by all major industrial economies in finding a way to sustainably finance social security programmes […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth weblog: China Daily has an article titled Serious gap in higher education opportunities based upon study results from the working group on “Research into Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education.” ……The conclusion said that there is “a widening education gap exists between China’s rural and urban populations.” To say ‘widening’ implies a longitudinal […]
Read MoreFrom Channelnewsasia.com: China, home to the world’s second largest number of Internet users, saw sales of online games in 2004 soar 47.9 percent to 2.47 billion yuan (298.44 million dollars), state media reported. Among China’s 94 million Internet users, 20.25 million were online games enthusiasts, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Press and Publication Administration. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: Surging demand for toilet paper in China has some of the nation’s suppliers in a flush, state press said. “I’m happy to see many young people adopt paper tissues for the convenience, which is a sign that reflects our social development and has helped improve our industry,” Wang Yueqin, vice-director […]
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