From AFP: “The Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft, new owner of the main production subsidiary of the Yukos oil company, at the weekend announced a contract to supply China with 50 million tonnes of oil by 2010. Rosneft vice-president Yury Matveyev announced signature of the deal in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Itar-Tass news agency […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: “The public security forces try to give the impression this is just another street on just another day. Apart from the police car at each end of the narrow alley, the half-a-dozen or so agents all loiter around in plainclothes. No 6 Fuqiang Alley is a modest, grey-bricked courtyard house of a […]
Read MoreFrom Connecticut News: “A Couple From West Hartford Reached Out To China To Give A Child A Home. They Had No Idea What They’d Started.” “On a beautiful spring morning in Hangzhou, China, a small group of Americans laden with baby bags and diapers maneuvered through a flood of bicycles to get to the registrar’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via Yahoo! News: “India and China will look to strategic issues such as the U.S.-led war on terrorism and their energy security to expand on a steady improvement in ties during talks Monday, officials and experts said. For the first time, their talks will focus on broader issues than disputes when Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: “Zhao Ziyang, who died on Monday after 15 years under house arrest, was sacked after opposing the suppression of pro-democracy protests in June 1989. Sources in Mr Zhao’s family say there is still no agreement about what his funeral oration should say. Meanwhile there are reports that a former Tiananmen protester who […]
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: “China today announced a sweeping reform in the university-level education by lifting a five decade-old ban on marriage and childbearing for college and postgraduate students. Addressing a meeting on the sensitive subject at the prestigious Peking University here, Fan Yi, an official with the student affairs department from the Ministry of Education, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC NEWS: “Chinese police have arrested nearly 600 people in 22 provinces as part of their crackdown on gambling, the official China Daily newspaper reported. Police raided two online gambling rings, one of them Taiwan-based, which they suspect may have handled bets worth as much as $60m (¬£32.1m). Gambling is illegal in China, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “Seoul’s city government had decided to change its Chinese name, still known to Chinese by its ancient name of Hancheng. The new name combines two Chinese characters, ȶñÂ∞î, which produce the sound ‘Shouer,’ similar in pronunciation to the South Korean name Seoul, officials said. At present Chinese refer to Seoul as Hancheng (Hanseong […]
Read MoreFrom VOA, via PolitInfo.com: “The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad says eight Chinese workers held hostage in Iraq have been freed by insurgents who kidnapped them earlier this month. The kidnappers said in a video message broadcast Saturday that they decided to release the men after China promised to discourage its citizens from traveling to Iraq.”
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: “Chinese mobile phone users sent a whopping 217.76 billion SMS messages in 2004, up 58.8 per cent from the previous year, the government said. According to statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China’s information industry brought in more than 21.7 billion yuan last year, as sending one SMS costs […]
Read MoreFrom the Beijing Review: “In China, as in every other country, blogging has taken off big time, so much so that a blogger with the hostname of Snake (Meng Xiaoshe) became the jury prizewinner in the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2004, the first international blog competition. His The Dog Newspaper (http://www. 18mo.com) was honored […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “The rule of the constitution” is one of the political ideals that reform-leaning Chinese President Hu Jintao has been chanting vigorously ever since he acceded to the throne in early 2003. Pursuant to Clause 37 of the country’s amended constitution, “A citizen of the People’s Republic of China is entitled to […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The China Post: “A small band of entrepreneurs protesting the demolition of their shops scuffled with police Friday outside a meeting of Shanghai representatives to China’s parliament. It wasn’t clear whether anyone was arrested. ‘Injustice! Injustice!’ the group of about 10 women shouted, waving copies of business licenses for demolished shops as […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The China Post: “Oil consumption in China will continue rising in 2005 as the energy-hungry giant seeks to power its fast-paced economy but at a slower pace than previous years, industry executives said Friday. Consumption of crude oil will jump to 320 million tons, an almost 12 percent rise over the 288 […]
Read MoreFrom the LA Times: “The FBI is seeking four Chinese nationals in connection with an unspecified threat on the city of Boston, the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said this afternoon. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in Washington for inaugural festivities, returned to the state after he heard the news. Gail Marcinkiewicz, an […]
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