From Bloomberg: “China will let foreign investors take stakes in television production companies for the first time, widening access for Viacom Inc., Walt Disney Co. and other media companies in the world’s biggest TV market by viewers. The new policy, to take effect Nov. 28, will allow foreigners to own as much as 49 percent […]
Read MoreAs the Chinese government plans to reform the shangfang, or petition, system, some experts believe that, despite the system’s failings, it is still necessary as the legal system cannot withstand the high levels of discontent among the population. The South China Morning Post (via China Study Group) quotes a Qinghua scholar: “”Let’s look at the […]
Read MoreChina is now preparing two major technological projects that will provide detailed surveillance information of the land and people. “Digital China,” which is written into China’s 10th five year plan, will create an electronic map of the entire country. “Electronic maps of the country are only the basic framework of Digital China,’” [Wu Wenzhong] said. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinahua today: “Nearly 10 percent of Chinese Internet users switched e-mail accounts from June to August this year because the service providers offered bigger storage, according to a survey made by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). About 33.8 percent of Chinese Internet users got new e-mail accounts in the three months before […]
Read MoreFrom AP (via USA Today): “Despite a thriving economic partnership, political ties between Japan and China are at their lowest ebb in years. The two countries are locked in disputes over World War II history, natural gas exploration and now a bold incursion by a Chinese nuclear submarine. The troubles have blocked a meeting between […]
Read MoreVia China Study Group, the South China Morning Post reported that “China has only 1 per cent of the world’s reserves of natural gas, usually found in tandem with crude oil. But trapped amid the mainland’s massive coal reserves, the third-largest in the world, are pockets of methane that can be consumed just like natural […]
Read More(AFP Photo) Vai Yahoo News, from AFP: “Global environmental group Greenpeace accused a Singapore-based multinational pulp and paper company of illegal logging and rampant forest destruction in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. Asia Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd (APP) was flouting China’s forestry law and was preparing to sow destruction to Yunnan forests by replacing natural […]
Read MoreFrom Kaumudi online: “India and China will hold the fourth round of talks to resolve the vexed boundary issue this week, official sources said on Tuesday.”
Read MoreFrom UPI, via the World Peace Herald: “The economic data China reported in October pointed to an economy settling to a sustainable pace. Inflation has been easing, even though it is still too early to say the inflation cycle in China has peaked.”
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, again via China Study Group: “Beijing has issued new compensation policies to appease farmers who have borne the brunt of a wave of land expropriation, state media reports. Local governments should provide subsidies to farmers who were unable to maintain their living standards because of the lax enforcement of […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via China Study Group: “The mainland is cracking down on bosses who withhold wages by ruling they must pay an extra 50 to 100 per cent of the amount owed to workers if they miss a payment deadline set by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. The rule […]
Read MoreFrom the China Economic Net: “Since 2003, China has become the second largest oil import and consumption country, only next to the United States. In that year, China’s oil consumption reached 250 million tons, with 91.12 million tons imported; and China’s dependence on oil import has amounted to 35 percent. What’s more, the number of […]
Read MoreVia China Study Group, the South China Morning Post reported that “scientists say the rushed introduction of genetically engineered rice on the mainland, as early as 2006, could ruin the nation’s staple food.”
Read MoreThe recent riots in Jieyang, Guangdong are now getting some attention in the English media. The South China Morning Post (via: China Study Group) reported today that, “The riot broke out at about 9pm last Wednesday after a local woman quarrelled with toll collectors, claiming she had been overcharged. Some witnesses said the woman was […]
Read MoreThe IHT has reported on a scheme by Chinese businesses to not only avoid but profit from intellectual property rights laws by copying international products and then patenting them under local laws: “Businesses in the United States, Europe and Japan lose $50 billion a year to counterfeiting in China, the U.S. Commerce Department estimates. But […]
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