From the Financial Times: “The Chinese government’s decision to block access to Google’s English-language news service is a reminder that, even in cyberspace, realpolitik rules. While Beijing is reckoned to have the most sophisticated system of internet censorship, it is not alone in controlling what its citizens see online. Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, Syria […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC News: “China’s vibrant economic growth is built on coal, the source of two thirds of the country’s electricity. Digging out that coal cost the lives of 15 miners a day in the first nine months of this year, official accident figures show. China’s leaders are now grappling with a predicament – how […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily: “The National Development and Reform Commission said Monday that domestic consumer prices are expected to rise by about 4 percent this year, which would be the highest in seven years since 1997. The commission believes that foodstuff prices spearheaded by grains are the main factors contributing to the hike of domestic […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: “In 2002, China Aviation Oil (Singapore) was named Singapore’s most transparent company by the island’s Securities Investors Association. No doubt the group is regretting that decision. The Singapore-based company is being investigated for losses from speculative oil trading that it hid from investors. The $550 million derivatives-trading loss is Singapore’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “Openly combating AIDS has not come easily to the governing Communist Party. Since taking over in 1949, it had largely eradicated prostitution, imposing a civic code in which drug use or sexual promiscuity were taboo. Even to deal with AIDS, officials at all levels have found it hard to acknowledge that […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Study says 1 in 4 youths thinks about taking own life in Shanghao. A recent study revealed that one-quarter of the children (ages 8 to 15) in China’s wealthiest city have considered taking their own lives. Perhaps more surprising is that the results were made public. Long a taboo topic in China, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “Authorities in Shanghai said yesterday they had rejected an application to open a Playboy club in China’s largest city. The rejection came only a day after the Chinese joint venture company of the US group had announced plans to open the venue. ”
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Beijing – A scuffle between street performers and officials trying to shoo them away sparked a riot in southern China at the weekend involving more than 1 000 people, officials and a US broadcaster said. In the north, two police officers were killed at the weekend when about 200 construction workers sought the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “According to China Business News, China will open the retail market for product oil on December 11. When foreign giants such as the BP Company of Britain and SK Cooperation of South Korea are busy carrying out their “Enclosure Movement” in the oil product market, the Shell Company goes against the trend by […]
Read MoreJim Yardley just published this article on the New York Times: “For five months, Gao Lading and other angry farmers had occupied the walled compound of the Communist Party’s village office. They had pitched tents, eaten rice and sweet potatoes, and waited. It was a sit-in born of desperation. Officials from the nearby city of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “China’s largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK: Quote ,Profile ,Research ) , said on Wednesday it is buying control of IBM’s PC-making business for $1.25 billion, capping the U.S. tech giant’s gradual withdrawal from the business it helped pioneer in 1981. The agreement, which forms the world’s third largest PC business, […]
Read MoreRebecca MacKinnon wrote an excellent commentary on her RConversation blog: “Don’t expect the Chinese blogosphere to bring down the Chinese Communist Party any time soon. The Great Chinese Firewall and China’s internet police will see to that – and they have plenty of help from major U.S. tech companies , including Cisco. Shame on […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: “On the face it, relations between the European Union and China could not be rosier as the leaders of the two powers prepare to meet in The Hague Wednesday. Since the EU enlarged to take in 10 central and East European countries in May, the bloc has become China’s largest trading partner, importing […]
Read MoreFrom Townsville Bulletin: “Nine out of 10 Chinese calling into a suicide-prevention hotline in the capital, Beijing, are getting a busy tone, a newspaper has reported. The China Daily also said that nationwide four people were killing themselves every minute. ”
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: “Beijing Media Corp, which sells advertising space for the mainland’s No3 newspaper Beijing Youth Daily , is poised to become a national player through a variety of media. The firm plans to expand into other media segments such as outdoor billboard advertising and television programme production, according […]
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