From Channelnewsasia.com: According to Beijing Mobile, it handled more than one billion outgoing short messages on Tuesday’s Lunar New Year’s Eve alone. Xinhua news agency Thursday estimated that more than 10 billion text messages would be sent over the week-long holidays that end on February 16, up 200 million from last year. Happy Year of […]
Read MoreFrom Vladivostok News: One Russian tourist was killed and five injured in a fight between Russian and Chinese party-goers that happened in the Chinese city of Heihe on February 5, Ria Novosti reported. The incident took place at a disco party in the ‘International’ hotel around midnight as the result of a mass fight between […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Chinese New Year which begins today is a traditional time for exchanging gifts but in modern-day China there’s a thin line between giving a holiday present and offering a bribe. The government says graft poses a serious threat to its grip on power and has vowed to stamp it out. Almost a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Wired News: U.S. policy divisions with Europe over Iran and China will test on Wednesday the upbeat mood nurtured by Condoleezza Rice this week on her maiden journey as secretary of state. The top U.S. diplomat flies from Paris to Brussels, headquarters of the 25-nation European Union, with the sides at odds […]
Read MoreFrom India’s Business Standard: “How profitable is China” was the title of a very interesting article written by Jonathan Anderson of UBS. It attempts to answer the above question using basic macro economic data, and simple intuitive logic. There exists a great deal of anecdotal evidence that China is a very difficult place to make […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily: Blockbuster movies for Lunar New Year audiences are a tradition in China, but the box office success of this season’s home-made hits over foreign imports is a sign that the country’s struggling film industry may finally be ready for take-off in its centenary year. Two festive big-budget comedies — Steven Chow’s […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via China National News: Chinese authorities have made an effort to reach out to Internet users by posting Lunar New Year greetings on the Web site of the state-run People’s Daily. Twenty-eight holiday greetings from 25 ministries and government departments were posted at people.com.cn, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Wednesday is the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: Japan is taking over a lighthouse built by right-wing activists years ago on a small island in the East China Sea, a move that has drawn fire from China, which also claims sovereignty over...
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: China, which puts more people to death than the rest of the world combined, has executed at least 650 in the two months leading up to the Lunar New Year, rights group Amnesty International said. The executions reached a fearful crescendo in the last two weeks before the holiday, when […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times : Driven by new evidence that North Korea may have begun selling nuclear materials around the world, President Bush sent an emissary last week to see President Hu Jintao of China and urge him to intensify diplomatic pressure on the North to give up its weapons program, according to senior […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times: Some survivors of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre went to Fuqiang alley, the former residence of Zhao Ziyang, former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party who died Jan. 17, to memorialize him. People who were invited by Zhao’s family included Zhang Xianling, Qi Zhiyong, Pang Meisheng, Wang Guoqi, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Yahoo! News: China’s unprecedented rise, fueled by foreign investment and technology, has put the Asian giant on a path to surpass the United States economically by 2025, the author of a new book on China said on Tuesday. U.S. pressure on Chinese authorities to revalue the yuan currency will bring only a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has agreed in principle to pay an official visit to China, a significant step toward revitalizing a military-to-military dialogue forced into hiatus after a Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter collided in international airspace in 2001. “Secretary Rumsfeld is interested in visiting China this […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Today the Beijing Modern Dance Company will be making its first performance of “Rear Light,” a modern dance piece to the music of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” at the Joyce Theater in New York. The article states that modern dance has become a medium of individual expression in a country […]
Read MoreFrom the TIME Asia Magazine: China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has long been a watchdog without a bite. Charged with ensuring that the country’s natural resources aren’t trampled by its headlong economic growth, SEPA must go up against other branches of government, state-owned companies and China’s burgeoning private enterprises”and it usually comes out on […]
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