From AP, via the Washington Post: “Immigration officials on Saturday barred a maverick Hong Kong lawmaker from entering Macau, blocking his plans to launch pro-democracy demonstrations during a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao. In televised remarks, Leung Kwok-hung, popularly known as ‘Longhair,’ said immigration officials denied him entry at Hong Kong’s ferry pier and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Taiwan condemned China’s proposed anti-secession law on Saturday, calling it a move to establish a legal basis to attack the island. Chinese state media said on Friday that Beijing planned to send the draft law for deliberation during a parliament session on Dec. 25-29. It was seen as a move to head off […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “The World Bank President said at an ongoing meeting in Beijing that the bank will continue to work with the Chinese Government to eradicate poverty. ‘Although China has made extraordinary progress reducing poverty over the last 25 years, we are all aware that there are still 30 million poor people in the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “China’s biggest ever online survey on returned and overseas students is starting to answer some important questions. Findings have so far identified what the most popular study destinations are and, more importantly, why so many students come back home AND what employment prospects they face. An online survey on returned and overseas Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “The central economic conference attended by Chinese leaders earlier this month made it clear that the country will ‘put people first, to foster a socialist harmonious society and to give top priority to resolving urgent problems facing up with the overwhelming majority of the people.’ Never before has ‘fostering a harmonious society’ been […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: “China is set to complete the transition from aid recipient to international donor in the next year, the head of the world’s biggest humanitarian agency said yesterday as he announced plans to phase out food support for Beijing and introduce a new period of cooperation to help poor countries in Asia and […]
Read MoreReuters, via the Washington Post: “Outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Friday China would emerge a leader in nuclear energy and called for further cooperation between the two countries in developing alternative sources of power. But he made no mention of Washington’s decision on the first-ever sale of powerful U.S.-made nuclear reactors to […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “Chinese authorities have arrested or reprimanded more than 750 officials in recent months in connection with billions of dollars in financial irregularities, including unpaid taxes and embezzlement, according to a report made public Thursday. The crackdown grew out of a broadening government campaign to audit county, city, provincial and ministerial officials […]
Read MoreThe recent arrest, and release, of writers Liu Xiaobo, Yu Jie and Zhang Zuhua, as well as the resignation of the editors of China Youth Daily and Xin Zhou Bao, has sparked fears of a new crackdown on free expression in China. According to a report in the South China Morning Post (Via Asia Media), […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: “Chinese property investment growth accelerated, resisting efforts by the central government to rein in what it considers an overheated industry. Real estate prices also rose. Investment in homes, offices and other commercial real estate increased 29.2 percent in the first 11 months of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported. That’s up […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “The dust storms, which can entirely envelop Beijing, have become an all too frequent event – and China’s neighbours, Korea and Japan, have also complained about the oppressive billows of dust. They are due to overgrazing and over-ploughing in Inner Mongolia, in the north of China, loosening the topsoil, which is then blown […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “China’s legislature has indicated that it is preparing to enact a law against secession, possibly mandating military action if Taiwan declares independence. A draft law for the Communist Party-controlled legislature forbidding secession by any part of China was announced by the New China News Agency this evening, which suggests that […]
Read MoreFrom the Daily Times: “Israeli arms deals with China have provoked tensions between Israel and its top ally the United States, a senior Israeli defence official said on Thursday. ‘There are tensions, which are hidden from the public, which have appeared over the last one or two years concerning Israeli weapons sales, particularly to China,’ […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: “Especially since 9/11, with the American administration’s obsessive focus on democracy as the panacea for all of a suffering world’s ills, it has seemed to many that that was the only way for peoples to develop. Intellectuals such as Francis Fukuyama wrote glowingly, and incredibly, of humankind approaching an “end of history” […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post: The Communist Party chief of Fujian province’s Lianjiang county has been detained along with his wife after accusing his superiors of blocking corruption investigations. Huang Jingao was taken away from the county’s Lianjiang Royal Hotel by unidentified people on Wednesday afternoon before he was scheduled to attend a meeting.
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