From Reuters, via Yahoo! News: “China proposed Wednesday one-off, non-stop charter flights between Chinese and Taiwan cities during the Lunar New Year holidays in February in a move seen aimed at easing tension between the foes.”
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: “With Russia and China facing crucial choices about future oil cooperation, the Russian energy minister, Viktor Krishtenko, recently made a secretive trip to Beijing.”
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced that former party chief Zhao Ziyang is still alive, according to this report on stuff.co.nz: “‘Zhao Ziyang is an old man who is over 80. He fell ill, but after attentive treatment, his condition is currently stable,’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told reporters. ‘Overseas media reports that Zhao Ziyang […]
Read MoreChina and Taiwan are holding talks to establish the first direct cross-straits flights in time for the Chinese new year, according to this report from the BBC. Xinhua and CNN have also reported on the agreement.
Read MoreReuters (via stuff.co.nz) reports that: “China says it expects 25 million of its people to be out of work this year, but the actual number of jobless in the world’s most populous nation could be much higher… China’s official unemployment figure only covers registered urban jobless, and analysts say the true number of people without […]
Read MoreAccording to a report in Asia Times, India has made a deal to buy natural gas and develop oil fields in Iran, which may influence relations between New Delhi and Beijing: “The deal puts energy rivals India and China in partnership in Tehran, and turns the focus back on a proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. In signs […]
Read MoreVia Openflows Networks, from the Japan Times: “A short while ago, when I was in Beijing, I wanted to keep up with some political development in Hong Kong. I turned on my computer and went to the Asia-Pacific page of the BBC’s Web site. Or at least I tried to; I had forgotten that the […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: “If China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) makes a bid for Unocal Corp, a second-tier United States energy company, it will underscore just how hungry China’s oil majors are for overseas production assets – and just how few of them are on the table. ‘There is just not much out there to […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: “To multinationals, 2004 was a year for further moving to China. In addition to increasing investments, lured by the low R&D expense in this country, multinationals kept setting up R&D centers in China, and outsourced R&D projects. Leveraging Chinese resources to develop more products that suit the China market and grab […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: “The number of foreigners coming to work in China has increased dramatically in recent years. Statistics from relevant departments show that at present there are approximately 100,000 such workers. In the first 11 months of 2004, Shanghai approved applications from 10,000 foreigners for work in the city, while the number of […]
Read MoreChina will conduct the DNA testing on Tsunami victims in Thailand, according to this report by the TNA: “Today Mrs. Sudarat said that Thailand would accept the Chinese offer as a gesture of friendship between the two nations, noting that China had also sent medical teams and rescue workers to help with the tsunami relief […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily reports on the ecological and social challenges facing China now that the population has reached 1.3 billion: “Meanwhile 1.3 million is also a number that causes anxiety, problems such as consumption,...
Read MoreFrom Jan. 17 issue of the News Week, via phayul.com: When Baimadanzen was growing up in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution, his Buddhist father sometimes played records of monks chanting. But he knew nothing about the religion until he moved in 1989 to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the remote western Sichuan […]
Read MoreFrom China Today: “When I first arrived in Beijing, I felt China was already a developed country,” was American traveler Bob’s first impression of China. But as he found out, first impressions aren’t always true. “When I saw western China, I got confused; the economic situation there is completely different from that of the capital. […]
Read MoreFrom San Francis Chronicle: “In the midst of frenzied copying of Western architecture, an American builds a home with traditional design.” “China’s building boom has revealed a curious cultural disconnect. Amid a resurgence of national pride, Chinese leaders have chosen foreign architects for signature projects such as the Beijing Olympics venues and Shanghai’s Jinmao Tower; […]
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