The BBC reports: “North Korea’s second most senior leader, Kim Yong-nam, is in China for a rare visit expected to focus on the North’s nuclear programme. His visit comes amid a flurry of efforts to restart stalled six-party talks aimed at addressing the crisis. US Secretary of State Colin Powell is to visit Japan, China […]
Read MoreRules governing the operation of non-governmental organizations in China may be relaxed soon, according to this report in the South China Morning Post (reg required): “Non-governmental organisations will eventually be able to register to work on the mainland without having to be sponsored by a government department, a Ministry of Civil Affairs official has predicted… […]
Read MoreBBC Monitoring has summarized Chinese media reactions to the death of kidnapped engineer Wang Peng, who was killed in South Waziristan yesterday.
Read MoreAn Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查）, the banned book whose authors have been sued for libel, is apparently so popular that it is being used to spread a computer virus. Eswn posted news from Duowei News about a new virus being spread through instant messaging, which uses the following subject heading to get readers to […]
Read MoreTim Luard of the BBC continues his trip in China. This time, he discovers the threat to China’s environment by the dramatically developing economy. The story well summarizes the current situation of China’s environment facing the challenge of large-scale economic development. Read the story.
Read MoreAP reported that “China and Russia settled the last of their decades-old border disputes Thursday during a visit to Beijing by President Vladimir Putin, signing an agreement fixing their 2,700-mile-long border for the first time. The struggle over border areas resulted in violent clashes in the 1960s and 1970s, when strained Sino-Soviet relations were at […]
Read MoreJasper Becker wrote on the Independent today: “China is trying to stop the United Nations imposing sanctions on Sudan over the crisis in the Darfur regionto protect its oil imports from the country, say western diplomats. For the past six years Beijing has been the Sudanese government’s main backer, buying 70 per cent of its […]
Read MoreThe Japan Times had an article about China’s diplomacy in the region: “The world’s attention has been focused on China’s smooth political transition at the last Chinese Communist Party plenum, the possible overheating of the Chinese economy and its impressive haul of 32 gold medals at the Athens Olympics. But little has been said of […]
Read MoreAFP reported that the Chinese government plans to carry out the first ever nationwide survey on the sale of blood and HIV/Aids: “The Ministry of Health issued an order Wednesday requesting provinces and cities throughout China carry out a comprehensive search to ‘fully grasp’ who sold blood and test them for the HIV virus. ‘Not […]
Read MoreFrom AFP today: “China and Russia signed an agreement in which Beijing formally endorsed Moscow’s bid to enter the World Trade Organization ( news -web sites ) (WTO). The agreement was signed by Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and his counterpart Russian Trade Minister German Gref during the first day of President Vladimir Putin […]
Read More“Cory Doctorow, outreach coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, did just that last week at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, by questioning Google board member and venture capitalist John Doerr about the company’s policy toward China. You can bet there will be more conversations like that in the years to come. ” Read […]
Read MoreBBC: “One Chinese hostage held by Islamic militants in South Waziristan has been killed and one freed in a dramatic rescue mission by Pakistani forces. All five kidnappers were killed, military spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said. A Pakistani guard and a soldier who were also taken captive had been released earlier. ” More is here.
Read MoreJean-Pierre Cabestan wrote on International Herald Tribune today about President Chirac’s recent visit to Beijing. “President Jacques Chirac’s recent visit to China has been presented by the French government as a great success. Indeed an unprecedented number of contracts, amounting to more than $4 billion, were signed, and political relations look as spotless as a […]
Read MoreThe official Xinhua News Agency dubbed the recent visit of President Jacques Chirac as the start of a new “honeymoon relationship”. Europe is courting China for its vast market ” and because an East-West...
Read MoreJonathan Watts profiles 76-year-old village photographer Li Tianbing, who got his first camera when he was 12 by selling his mother’s cow in their isolated, mountainous village. “Ever since, Li has been making a unique record of peasant life in one of the poorest parts of the world. Li estimates he has carried his Thorton-Packard […]
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