From 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.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: “The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation. Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: “Pang Rongchang was ready to join Mao Zedong’s revolutionary army in the late 1940s. But before he left his Hubei town, his father did what generations of men did for their sons: secured a wife for him. There was no discussion. The bride was hand-carried to the groom’s doorstep from […]
Read MoreFrom the Beijing Review: With limited oil reserves, China looks for supplementary ways to fuel its economy.
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: “One of the world’s least controlled abortion regimes will be tightened next month, when the Chinese city of Guiyang introduces a pilot programme aimed at halting the widespread termination of female foetuses. The new policy bans doctors from carrying out abortions on most women who are more than 14 weeks into pregnancy. […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via Japan Today: “Police in Henan Province, central China, have foiled a mass public demonstration upset over the allocation of electric power and blackouts, one of the protestors said Wednesday. Public security officers in Xinxi district in the city of Dengzhou got wind of plans for a protest by some 6,000 people […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “Japan on Thursday risked provoking a further deterioration in relations with China, saying it planned to grant Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s former president, a visa to visit the country this month. The decision, which prompted an immediate protest from Beijing, was the latest sign that Japan is hardening its diplomatic stance towards […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: China’s economy is still running on the fast track despite the recent macroeconomic control measures. Experts estimate the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) may hover around 9 per cent this year. Last year, it was 9.3 per cent year on year. Next year, the figure would still remain between 8 and 9 per […]
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