From The Australian: The Howard Government will introduce special measures to protect Australian firms from being wiped out by cheap Chinese imports, as it steps up its campaign for a prized trade deal with Beijing. But Trade Minister Mark Vaile said the Government was unlikely to negotiate over China’s questionable human rights record or workers’ […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: In Australia he’d be seen as a canny bush lawyer, but in China Sun Wusheng is little short of a miracle. The 45-year-old former peasant with only seven years of schooling has become a national celebrity by suing building companies for workers’ unpaid wages – and winning. The companies that are flattening […]
Read MoreFrom CTV.ca: When Joseph Song was a young boy, he was one of many Chinese children who roamed the streets working for the little money he would never see. These days, the 19-year-old helps run a sanctuary for street children at what used to be an old chili factory. More and more Chinese children from […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Boston.com: A Chinese dissident who tried to pay his respects to the family of late deposed Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has been detained for threatening national security, a fellow pro-democracy campaigner said on Sunday. Zhang Lin, who played a leading role in 1989 pro-democracy protests in the eastern province of Anhui […]
Read MoreFrom The Industry Standard: EBay Inc. executives this week called China the “largest e-commerce opportunity today” and reaffirmed the online auction company’s plans to invest US$100 million in the country during 2005. “We are doubling down in China because the potential for Internet commerce in that country is simply extraordinary,” Meg Whitman, eBay’s chief executive […]
Read MoreFrom Webindia123.com: Challenged by a larger population, more people without jobs and an aging society, China has lowered its 2005 GDP growth projection in an effort to stress on concerted and sustainable development, reports Xinhua. Towards this end, provincial governments across China have adjusted their annual economic growth projections downward to cool their economies and […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Star: The Prophet Mohammed, in conveying the divine word to Muslims, commanded them to search for knowledge “even though it be in China,” calling such a pursuit a “duty” for the faithful. Ironically today, we should be learning a lot from our friends in the Far East. There has been a recent […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: State-controlled media and censored Internet chat rooms in China have become uncommonly critical of North Korea in the two days since it declared that it had nuclear weapons, even as the Foreign Ministry here has said fairly little. The criticism by state-run media is important because the Chinese government has […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes Last year, Tokyo protested to Beijing about the China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s Chunxiao gas field development in the East China Sea, part of the $2 billion Xihu Trough project, which it believes might extend into Japanese territorial waters.
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Hindustan Times India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp is still in the running for a stake in assets of Russian oil major YUKOS, with state officials due to negotiate in Moscow later this month, a top Government official said on Saturday.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Firecracker booms rocked urban Beijing with bright flashes during this year’s Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, challenging the city’s 12-year-old ban on the festive but often dangerous explosives. Even within the second ringroad — the innermost areas of Beijing’s city proper, cracks are constantly heard created by unidentified passers-by, though posters […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: One out of every three owners of private businesses in the country is a member of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), according to an official survey. The survey was jointly conducted by the Organization Departmentof the CPC Central Committee, the All-China Federation of Industryand Commerce, and the China society […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: North Korea’s latest statement claiming possession of nuclear weapons and “indefinitely” pulling out of the six-nation talks to resolve the nuclear impasse presents China with a diplomatic quandary at a time of increased pressure from the Bush administration, analysts say. “It definitely presents China with a problem,” said Jin Canrong, a senior international […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: China has accused Japan of a “severe provocation” after Tokyo moved to take over a lighthouse built years ago by right-wing activists on a small, disputed group of islands in the East China Sea. An unidentified official from the Foreign Ministry’s Asian department had made solemn representations to the Japanese over the incident, […]
Read MoreFrom Businessweek The auto giant is taking its cost-slashing drive to a new level. Can its suppliers match China’s cheaper parts?
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