From India’s The Economic Times: Mr Finance Minister, pick up your pen and take a few notes. China is entering a whole new era in farm policy this year with a slew of subsidies after its agriculture gets derailed by a legacy of stiff taxes. With the Budget round the corner, Beijing’s smart moves may […]
Read MoreFrom Webindia123.com: A recent study conducted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said that India was ahead of China as far as the state of public sector institutions was concerned. According to The News, on the Public Institutions Index, India at 53rd place was ahead of China, which was having the 56th position. Pakistan […]
Read MoreFrom Waveguide TV and Radio News: A themed week of news reports and programmes on the BBC begins on March 7 in China Week. Adrian Van Klaveren, Deputy Director, BBC News, said: “China is changing fast and opening up, so this week of special output gives us a chance to reflect on what’s happening and […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Chinese officials on Monday said they shut down 12,575 Internet cafes between October and December of last year, as part of what the government calls a campaign to protect children from violent games and pornography. Officials said most of the locations closed down were located near schools. The crackdown came after the […]
Read MoreFrom The Fortune Magazine: It was 1978, and thousands of students were rampaging through the streets of Tehran, burning barricades and chanting their vision of a radical Islamic republic that would transform Iran forever. Halfway across the world, a young Iranian student was sitting in an economics class at the University of California at Berkeley, […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel asks, Why do some civilizations die out while others survive? There are no trees more than 10 ft. tall on Easter Island. That’s not its most famous mystery–there’s the little matter of those giant brooding statues–but it is kind of weird. Easter Island is less forested […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent : China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the world’s most populous nation. The surprise move – one of the most dramatic ever undertaken by any government – arises from rapidly growing environmental concern in China. […]
Read MoreFrom the TrekEarth, many photos are beautifully taken. This one is from Shilin (Stone Woods) , Yunnan province.
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: China has pledged to try reviving talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear programs following the isolated, Stalinist state’s declaration that it has atomic weapons and is boycotting disarmament negotiations. The United States and other countries involved in the six-party talks have urged China to use its influence over […]
Read MoreFrom the TIME.com: When it comes to spying, Beijing likes to flood the zone “the Chinese are very good at putting a lot of people on just a little piece and getting a massive amount of stuff home,” says a U.S. intelligence official. The number of Chinese snoops is staggering, if only because average civilians […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Russian general gamely tried on a samurai helmet. The visiting Japanese general donned a Russian fur hat. Together, they watched Russian tanks maneuver across the snow-covered terrain. Japan and Russia are weaving closer military and economic relations, and the reason lies just across the Amur River from here – […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth Weblog: There is a newly published book, The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, written by an American businessman Robert Lawrence Kuhn with the cooperation of the subject, his friends, relatives and associates. I have not read the book, so I won’t say anything. Here are two reviews: […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times: According to Xinhua News Agency’s report on February 1, 2005, China General Environment Protection Bureau on January 18 announced that 30 projects in 13 provinces were illegal, with a total investment of 117.94 billion yuan (US$14.21 billion). This action evoked a huge number of responses statewide.
Read MoreFrom workforce.com: As companies send many of their operations offshore, they are increasingly asking employees born in other countries–but educated and trained in the United States–to return home to work. For example, some multinational companies are relocating Chinese-born employees to Beijing and beyond as a way to tap into that nation’s emerging markets and to […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: Sharan Burrow wants a strong clause spelling out the rights of workers in Australia and China. ACTU president Sharan Burrow will today propose a “strong labour-rights clause” and a focus on promoting opportunities for Australian manufacturers as the price for union support for the free trade agreement the Federal Government plans to […]
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