From Los Angeles Times: A state environmental agency succeeded in halting work on three new projects run by operators of the giant Three Gorges Dam, as part of a larger effort in China to rein in infrastructure ventures that fail to meet environmental standards. It had been unclear whether the State Environmental Protection Administration could […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The New York Times: Health experts in Shanghai are testing to determine if a baby diagnosed by doctors as having meningitis actually died from the disease, a newspaper reported Friday. The government, meanwhile, declared under control an outbreak of the disease that killed at least 16 people. Airlines and city governments, however, […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: The mainland said a threatened US bill giving it six months to revalue the yuan would be the wrong way to handle the sensitive issue. “We believe this is not a way to resolve differences,” foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Thursday. “Every country’s economic and financial policies are implemented and established […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: As her classmates headed home for family reunions after end of term exams, Yang Jin was flying to Beijing to attend a news conference arranged by her agent. Miss China 2004, the 20-year-old sophomore was among 15 finalists at last year’s Miss World contest held on South China’s Hainan island. A […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The irony of China using the power of the state rather than free markets to boost its industrial, technological and economic development is not lost on Canadian trade unionists, unable over the past two decades to convince their own government to adopt similar measures. Instead, Canada’s traditional role as a supplier […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Recently with the frequent pubic appearance on news media, “Confucius Institute” has become a focus of concern for Chinese learners across the world. Thanks to the continuous rise of China’s overall national strength, the Sino-foreign cooperation and exchanges have been in full swing to an unprecedented extent. A gust of “China […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily: In April 2004, China launched the unprecedented Project of Chinese Volunteers for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Abroad. Already, 100 volunteers have been dispatched to various parts of the world. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree either in Chinese, Chinese History, or English. “Such an educational background is necessary, because […]
Read MoreFrom the Digital Chosunilbo: China is sending some 600 Chinese language teachers to Korean elementary and middle schools. Zhejiang Online News reported Friday that 600 graduates from a teachers college in Zhejiang province would be sent to Korean schools after Hangzhou Normal University signed a deal with 16 school principals during their recent visit to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: The average life expectancy of Beijing residents reached 79.87 years in 2004, compared with 79.62 years in 2003, according to the information center of the municipal center for disease control. Men’s average life expectancy is 78.24 years and the women’s is 81.51 years, said Xie Xueqin, director of the center, Thursday.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Premier Wen Jiabao said the issues concerning agriculture and rural areas and ecological protection should be prioritized in China’s large-scale development of the western regions, designed to bridge economic and social gap with the developed eastern regions. …… Of China’s 30 million needy population, about two-thirds of those with an average […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: Police in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou arrested 29 people in connection with an Internet prostitution site that documented call girls in 20 Chinese provinces and regions. The site called “playchina” or “xiyouzhongguoII,” which had 15,700 registered users, has also been shut down, the Information Times reported Friday. After […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China TelecomChina Telecom, the country’s biggest fixed-line operator, has announced it wants to team up with a smaller rival to buy a national wireless network run by the second biggest mobile phone operator, China Unicom. The announcement by Wang Xiaochu, China Telecom’s new chairman, marked a dramatic intervention into debate about […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: China’s two fixed-line phone companies are moving ahead with plans to offer pay TV on their broadband networks, hoping to overcome tough restrictions on programming and squeeze more profits out of their infrastructure. China Telecom Corp., the larger of China’s two carriers, is operating a trial service in the relatively prosperous cities of […]
Read MoreFrom the Business Week Online: Statistics could improve if Beijing’s new economic census is a success Beijing this winter is festooned with orange banners and billboards that look like Communist agitprop. But instead of slogans exhorting hero-workers toproduce more rice or steel, the message reads: “The economic census needs your support!” Time was, China’s centrally […]
Read MoreBao Tong, Zhao Ziyang’s aide during the 1989 democracy movement, has written an essay titled, “Remembering Zhao Ziyang”: For genuine and long-term stability, Zhao proposed reforms that ultimately aimed at the legalization and systemization of democracy. He wished to establish the kind of democratic politics that could support and nurture a healthy market economy. Although […]
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