From the Asahi Shimbun today: “Hoping to put the country’s relationship with China back into play and stem growing anti-Japanese sentiment, lawmakers from China and Japan are to don their soccer boots for a friendly match in Beijing next year, sources said over the weekend. According to the sources, Lower House Speaker Yohei Kono and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua today: “China’s economy is expected to grow 9.4 per cent this year and slow slightly to 8.9 per cent next year, reported the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at a symposium on China’s economic situation in Beijing yesterday. Wang Tongsan, a senior economist with the academy, said the country’s economic growth this year […]
Read MoreThe IHT published an obituary of a woman believed to be the last person to be fluent in a rare script used for secret communication among women in Hunan Province: “The script, Nushu, represents the language spoken in Jiangyong Prefecture in southern Hunan. Women, who were denied education for many centuries, used it to share […]
Read MoreAlso on this issue of Newsweek: “In some ways, China is an unlikely hotbed for e-commerce. Only 38 percent of online buyers pay with credit or debit cards, using instead an army of bicycle messengers delivering cash. There are no reliable credit ratings, or postal services, so some online auction customers still want to meet […]
Read MoreThis issue of Newsweek has an article entitled “China Dreams: Star analyst Mary Meeker was partly right about the Internet. But is she right on the Internet in Asia?” “Mary Meeker made and later unmade her reputation as an analyst with “The Internet Report,” a path-breaking 1995 tome that claimed making money in this exciting […]
Read MoreFrom today’s Washington Post: “President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, in a conciliatory gesture aimed at China’s newly consolidated leadership, proposed a fresh start Sunday on long-suspended talks to improve relations and lower tension across the Taiwan Strait. Chen suggested China’s President Hu Jintao may be more flexible in addressing Taiwan’s concerns now that former president […]
Read More“The numbers are alarming: More than half of Hong Kong teens aged between 12 and 15 have made friends with strangers online, and about 7 per cent of them have met these ‘friends’ to have sex.” The full article is here.
Read MoreThe following is an article from People’s Daily Online. It informs the reader about French President Jacques Chirac’s visit to China, meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The talks dealt with the issue of strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries. As the article puts it “He [President Hu] proposed to strengthen Sino-French […]
Read MoreFeng Liang wrote on Asia Times Online: “After Chinese incumbent president Hu Jintao replaced his predecessor Jiang Zemin as the country’s new commander-in-chief, political observers say China’s power shift has finally been completed. Since the Communist Party’s decisive meeting last month, the fourth-generation of leadership – with moderate reformist Hu as the paramount leader – […]
Read MoreThis is from Xinhua today: “China will publish “The Piano Teacher” by Elfriede Jelinek, recently named the winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in literature, in simplified Chinese characters within a month, according to Beijing October Art Publishing House on Saturday. ” Reading this, I cannot help to recall how differently Chinese government, through Xinhua […]
Read MoreFrom Redif.com: “China ranks second among emerging markets with a 11.8 per cent share of the non-life insurance premium segment, while India ranks 9th with a 3 per cent market share. Both the Asian nations will, however, emerge as the largest insurance markets, according to Swiss Re. Interestingly it is the huge population base of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Doctor Tang Denghua opened the letter handed to him by a girl in her early 20s sitting before him – one of his dozens of patients he sees in a day at the Institute of Mental Health at Peking University. He frowned after reading it. Distressing words filled the page. Tang, a […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for translating Radio Free Asia’s interview with Chen Guidi, an author of Survey of Chinese Peasants.
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Hong Kong’s new Legislative Council members have taken the territory’s official oath of office. In last month’s elections, 25 of the 60 seats went to pro-democracy candidates – more than ever before. The new members are likely to create problems for Hong Kong’s leader Tung Chee-hwa and his pro-China government. One of the […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: “Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., a leading Chinese computer chip maker, plans to begin supplying chips using 90-nanometer technology to major clients such as Texas Instruments Inc. beginning next year, the companies said Friday. The plan marks a breakthrough in China’s acquisition of advanced technology. Beijing has long sought to nurture domestic semiconductor […]
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