Also from Xinhuanet: “China will adopt new standards to calculate and register its verified oil and natural gas reserves to get accurate data. The calculation will be based on the Classification of Resources and Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, a new national standard that was implemented beginning Oct.1, Vice Minister of Land and Resources […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “To cope with crippling energy shortage, China launched a comprehensive energy saving plan Tuesday, effective from now to 2020. The plan is the biggest and most ambitious one of its kind in China’s history, said Zhao Jiarong, director of the department of environment resources conservation under the National Development and Reform Commission at […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: Sony Pictures TV said it has formed a joint venture with Hua Long in China to develop Chinese-language television projects including sitcoms, drama series and movies. This is the first development to arise out of the government’s recent decision to allow overseas investors to buy stakes in Chinese television companies. Viacom and Disney […]
Read MoreAlan Stone, a professor of law and psychiatry at Harvard, wrote a commentary in Psychiatric Times about the psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong members in China. Dr. Stone was appointed as a member of a task force organized by the World Psychiatric Association and responsible for investigating political misuse of psychiatry in China, including against […]
Read MoreWhat happened to the persons who spread paint on Mao’s portrait during the student protests in 1989? Read about their plight here.
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese police have cracked down on 1,045 drug gangs, arresting 10,537 suspects and seized 6.27 tons of illegal drugs since Aug. 1, the government said Wednesday. Drug-related funds of 77.85 million yuan (9.38 million US dollars) were also seized in the four-month anti-drug campaign, said Chen Yicun, deputy-director of anti-drug department under theMinistry […]
Read MoreForeign TV companies, including HBO, Nickelodeon and National Geographic, are moving quickly to take advantage of new relaxed rules in China allowing foreign investment in content production: “Most of the partnerships are seizing on new rules that go into effect next week allowing foreign firms to own up to 49 percent of joint ventures engaged […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Since China’s annexation of the Xinjiang-Uighur autonomous region in 1950, Beijing has pursued policies that have put considerable pressure on the local environment. This western region, which borders Central Asia, is home to China’s main nuclear testing site. Pollution does not respect political boundaries, which is why the impact of the 42 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “An Aids prevention campaign distributing free condoms on Chinese campuses has been halted by authorities at Beijing’s top two universities. Administrators at Peking University and Tsinghua University said the campaign was unacceptable. It is a sign of how Aids prevention work on the mainland is being hampered by bureaucracy and traditional taboos. ” […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post, via MSNBC: “As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation. The millions of urban youths who were forced to abandon their books and live their teenage years with peasants have grown into […]
Read MoreWal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has conceded to Chinese government demands that it allow branches of the All China Federation of Trade Unions to operate in its China stores. The superstore recently announced plans to open ten new stores in China. The ACFTU, a Communist Party controlled organization, had threatened to sue Wal-Mart if it […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China’s growing economic influence is such that its central bank – an important buyer of US government debt – now feels confident enough to offer blunt advice to Washington and even criticism of American statecraft. Li Ruogu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), said Washington was now blaming […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: “More than a third of Chinese people who fall ill do not go to the doctor because they cannot afford the cost, a government survey has found. The investigation, reported by state media this week, sampled nearly 200,000 rural and urban residents. The problem is the cost of medical care is going […]
Read More“China has more cellular users than any other nation on earth. More than 300 million Chinese — more than the total number of men, women, and children living in the U.S. — have mobile phones, and that population continues to grow by millions a month. Yet China remains a laggard when it comes to the […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: “Anti-Japanese sentiment has grown in China over the past two years, with many citing Japan’s militarist past as reasons for their unfavorable view, a poll by a Chinese research institute showed Tuesday. The opinion poll conducted by the Institute of Japanese Studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences earlier this year […]
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