From ILCA Online: China’s trade with the U.S. cost this country approximately 1.5 million lost job opportunities in the last four years, a new report says. And, contrary to popular impressions, Chinese exports to the U.S. are moving upwards from labor-intensive low-cost goods–such as textiles and shoes–to high-tech goods and services, such as information technology, […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: The “anti-corruption hero” Communist Party chief of Lianjiang county in Fujian province has allegedly taken 2 million yuan in bribes and failed to account for the source of 6 million yuan in his possession. The allegations were the latest made in a report by […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: The number of Internet users in China will hit 134 million by the end of this year, consolidating its position as the second largest market in the world after the United States, research firm Analysys International said on Thursday. The figure would mark a […]
Read MoreFrom the TIME Asia Magazine: Just a couple of years ago, the vegetable patches of Anting, a hamlet west of Shanghai, yielded some of the sweetest spinach this side of the Yangtze River. Now, out of farmers’ fields, an entire German-style town has sprouted, its brightly hued gingerbread homes modeled on those of Weimar in […]
Read MoreFrom China National News: CHINA YOUTH DAILY – CPC Central Committee and the State Council jointly hosted the Spring Festival group greeting meeting to entertain representatives from all circles in Beijing on February 7, 2005. Premier addressed the meeting, wishing Chinese people a happy new year. – China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs recently rebuffed the […]
Read MoreFrom Manila Bulletin Online: What was supposed to be a tradition among the Chinese has already become a fascination for most of us. With the growing popularity of celebrating the Chinese New Year, even among the non-Chinese, this festivity has surprisingly, elevated itself into a worldwide event with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and Beijing leading […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The icy draft whistling through the entrance hall of Tsinghua University’s 10-megawatt high-temperature reactor building offers a sharp contrast to the technology humming away unseen behind its walls. But Chinese nuclear researcher Xu Yuanhui shows no sign of letting the chill of a winter day in north-west Beijing cool his enthusiasm […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Swissinfo: Travelling as one of millions in the biggest movement of people on Earth or spending hours stuffing dumplings or crowding among throngs into parks means China’s Lunar New Year is a festival as much of stress as of fun. Each year, China’s rapidly expanding and modernising transport system creaks at its […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The International Herald Tribune: China’s exports surged 42.2 percent in January from a year earlier, the government said on Tuesday, helping to create a $6.5 billion surplus that highlights U.S. concerns about the Chinese currency’s value and may put pressure on Beijing to let the yuan rise. . Exports hit $50.8 billion […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Despite concern that the fast growth of China could cast an economic pall across the rest of Asia, regional leaders appear to be emphasizing the positive impact that an emergent investment and consumer powerhouse could have on their countries. . Malaysia, for example, finds an economic windfall from Chinese tourists. […]
Read MoreChina’s peaceful rising, a concept originated from 2003, was acclaimed by both the central government and scholars. The core of “peaceful rising” is that China rises not only as a regional power but as a power that plays an increasingly important role throughout the globe without resorting to warfare or force. China’s GDP (Gross Domestic […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua-English: SARS and bird flu will be included as occupational diseases in Hong Kong following an amendment to Hong Kong’s Employees Compensation Ordinance. The move brings the total number of occupational diseases under the law to 48 in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s Labor Department said on Monday that the amendment provides better protection to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Not only are most Chinese inclined to hide their wealth, they even insist they do not have money. The disinclination to show wealth has been ingrained in the Chinese culture since ancient times. People today are becoming even more private about their income. Psychologists believe this attitude derives from China’s thousands […]
Read MoreFrom the Weekend Standard: India and China. Two giants of the developing world. Two very different models of social, political and economic development. An endless source of comparisons. Few people are better placed to give a fresh version of the strengths and weaknesses of the two behemoths than 63-year-old Arun Shourie. Until the Bharatiya Janata […]
Read MoreFrom Timothy Karr’s MediaCitizen blog: Citizens of China and Vietnam are doing something heretofore unheard of. They’re hashing out territorial differences via a China People’s Daily web forum. The debate was sparked by the killing last month of nine Vietnamese fishermen (the Chinese call them “pirates”), who were shot by Chinese police in the Gulf […]
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