From Big News Network: “The Chinese city of Chongqing has set up a body to monitor environmental protection for the controversial Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River. Chongqing, one of China’s four super-cities with provincial status, established the Three Gorges Reservoir Administration Tuesday, the local Xinhua branch reported. The body will oversee water quality […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Weekly, Catherine Bennett wrote: “Soon after China implemented its one-child policy in 1979, reports reached the West of a new breed of plump, pampered creatures who had never learned to share. They were called Little Emperors, and nobody said “No” to them. It was as if Britain had decided to spawn millions of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “China will continue its population control policy in a long period to come though it has become a lowbirthrate country, the State Commission for Population and Family Planning said Wednesday. According to statistics of the commission, the average number of children of a Chinese family has dropped from 5.8 in the early 1970s […]
Read MoreFrom CNSNEWS.COM: “First, there was Moscow’s meddling and blustering over the recent Ukrainian presidential elections. Then, there was the sell-off and nationalization of Yukos, one of Russia’s largest private oil companies. And now the latest bad news: Russia’s growing military cooperation with Asia’s rising superpower, China.”
Read MoreFrom LA Times: “The radio show called “Special Communications” was an unlikely hit, given that it consisted of announcers reading strings of numbers for 15 minutes. Taiwan used the mind-numbing program in the 1980s to send coded messages to its spies in mainland China. But like many Taiwanese propaganda broadcasts, it could also be picked […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: “China There are two kinds of families in this village: the relatively rich, who live in tiled villas with air-conditioning, and those who still hunt in the wooded hills with bow and arrow and send their sons off to become Buddhist monks when there are too many mouths to feed.” The […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “The Kremlin’s decision to approve the East Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline and pump its Siberian crude toward Japan has come as a blow to China’s hopes of securing its own slice of Russia’s hydrocarbon riches. And Moscow’s energy overtures toward Beijing as a consolation prize are not much by which to set […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Trinune: “‘Postmen in the Mountains’ is a quietly touching little Chinese film that wrings considerable beauty and poignancy from seemingly the simplest of subjects. Shot on location in the isolated South Hunan mountain area, it’s about the last three-day trip of the local postman, a kind and dedicated man who has just […]
Read MoreChina’s chief justice has said that the Communist Party should abide by the rule of law, according to an article in South China Morning Post (via Asianews.it): In an article published by Qiushi magazine, the President of...
Read MoreFrom Caijing English Newsletter: “From the beginning of 2004, businesses in China’s bustling southeastern coastal areas have seen a massive exodus of migrant workers. Analysts say this is a manifestation of ongoing silent resistance on the part of rural laborers against coerciveness and unequal treatment . It also forecast s an end of predatory usage […]
Read MoreOn this issue of the Business Week, Bruce Einhorn wrote: “The rising economic powerhouse hasn’t produced consumer-electronics outfits that can truly compete with multinational giants. Everybody knows that China is the world’s next economic superpower. Each year, it gets billions and billions of dollars in foreign investment, powering its booming economy. The Middle Kingdom has […]
Read MoreFrom AP Wire: “From farmers to millionaires, Chinese from all walks of life are digging deep into their pockets to help victims of Southeast Asia’s devastating earthquake and tsunamis in one of the country’s largest fund-raising efforts in recent history. Nine days after the Dec. 26 disaster struck, 25 million yuan ($3 million) in cash […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: “Forecasters predict that China’s economy will overtake the US economy some time in the 2040s and become the world’s biggest in dollar value. On a purchasing power parity basis, China will catch up earlier. But the trouble with these sorts of projections is that they tend to look at China’s growth rate […]
Read MoreFrom PolitInfo.com: “Chinese state media reported Monday that Beijing will consider allowing non-stop flights between Mainland China and Taiwan. The proposal could end a 55-year ban on direct travel between the political rivals. China says it wants to promote direct charter flights across the Taiwan Strait in time for the Chinese New Year holiday, which […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Beijing-controlled oil giant Sinopec has discovered at least one billion tonnes of oil and a gas field in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang, which could add at least a third to the country’s proven oil reserves. Sinopec Corp. , the Hong Kong-listed unit of Sinopec Group, said it had found 1.08 billion tonnes […]
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