From BusinessWeek Online: “Beijing won’t be doing much to tame the nation’s sizzling growth, much as the G7 nations preparing to meet in London wish otherwise It was a shocker, all right. On Jan. 25 the Chinese government announced its latest economic growth figures. Turns out that the irrepressible Chinese economy grew at an astounding […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “The Chinese government took control of memorial arrangements for Zhao Ziyang on Thursday, ending protracted and sensitive negotiations with his family about how to mark the death of the Communist Party chief ousted for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Ten days after Zhao’s death at the age of 85, family […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via the Boston Globe: A glance at the newspapers and glossy magazines jostling for space on China’s news stands shows how much the media has changed since the Communist country embraced market reforms more than 20 years ago. But the death of ousted leader Zhao Ziyang, who sympathized with student demonstrators in […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: “Authorities in the Chinese capital have beaten and seriously injured a man for wearing a white flower in mourning for late ousted Party leader Zhao Ziyang, and they have arrested hundreds of others, Beijing residents said. A petitioner from the central province of Henan was beaten after he wore a white […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: “China will hold a memorial for Zhao Ziyang this weekend at its main cemetery for revolutionary heroes, a government official said Thursday, after more than a week of wrangling over how the deposed Communist party leader will be officially remembered. The ‘body farewell ceremony’ will take place Saturday morning at the Babaoshan […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world’s leaders, officials and experts said. Eight departments of the Chinese Government announced on Saturday in Beijing that CERNET2 was going into formal operation. “We were a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “Why has the Chinese government been so intent on showing that the former Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was a man of no significance, a man whose life should not be celebrated and whose death should pass unsung? The answer that comes most readily to the historian’s mind is that […]
Read MoreFrom the Herald Sun: ” The Japanese economy’s acute reliance on booming China for forward momentum has been highlighted by China elbowing aside the US to become Japan’s biggest merchandise trading partner for the first time. Chinese iron ore statistics, released following Beijing’s revelation of sizzling December quarter gross domestic product growth of 9.5 per […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “An unexpected improvement in German business sentiment helped to underpin European shares on Wednesday while the yen recouped some of its recent losses as China rekindled speculation of a yuan revaluation. China’s finance minister said it would enter into a “deep dialogue” at next week’s Group of Seven meeting on issues including […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “A Tibetan monk imprisoned by China for nearly three years can no longer walk or speak clearly, according to US-based Human Rights Watch. Tashi Phuntsog, who was released earlier this month, worked with a prominent lama, Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, whom China has branded a ‘terrorist’.”
Read MoreVia ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, from the New York Times: Few business executives watch the growth of the Chinese economy as closely as Michael R.P. Smith, the chief executive of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Yet even Smith was startled when his staff recently projected that in 2034, bank assets in China would surpass those in the […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: China’s economy re-accelerated in the last quarter of 2004, despite official efforts to curb rampant investment. Is it growing too fast to keep its balance? On Tuesday, January 25th, the Chinese authorities sheepishly confessed that the economy beat expectations last year, growing by 9.5%. It finished the year particularly strongly, growing at an […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: ‘The FBI said Tuesday the possible terrorist plot reported against Boston by a tipster last week was a false alarm, and Mexican authorities said it could have been motivated by revenge or might have been a joke. ‘There were in fact no terrorist plans or activity under way,’ an FBI statement […]
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: “Beijing, Jan 25 : A whopping 97 per cent of Chinese customers dine at fast food restaurants, putting the country in the top five out of 28 markets recently surveyed by a leading pollster company, the state media reported today. The Philippines topped the survey with 99 per cent of respondents saying […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: “China is sending a team of scientists to re-measure Mount Everest because they fear climate change is causing the world’s highest peak to shrink. The snow-covered mountain top is believed to have declined by 1.3 metres to 8,848 metres, according to state media reports.”
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