All gas stations in Beijing are required to sell cleaner gasoline, in an effort to clean up the air in time for the 2008 Olympics, according to a Reuters article (via Business Day): “With 1,047 stations servicing 2.3 million vehicles, the highest among Chinese cities, Beijing will adopt Euro II fuel standards with 500 parts […]
Read MoreXinhua reports that the Beijing municipal government has ordered the closure of Tiananmen Square to the pubic on the October 1st National Day, due to concerns about terrorism. The article includes details about the “intense preparations” being made to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks during this holiday. No indication of an imminent threat is […]
Read MoreThe Epoch Times runs a story on how the newspaper is excluded from Google’s News service in Chinese, accusing Google of helping Chinese government censoring news information.
Read MoreRefugees seeking political asylum stormed the Canadian embassy in Beijing, BBC Asia reported today. A group of men, women and children disguised themselves as construction workers and used home-made laters to scale the 10-foot walls around the embassy compound. The group appeared to be North Koreans hoping to gain passage to South Korea via refugee […]
Read More“China is due to deploy riot police in haiti next month,a s part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission. This is China’s highest profile overseas mission to date.” Read BBC’s report here.
Read MoreReuters had a story on “Business jets size up China’s rich” (Via CNN) “China’s growing billionaire club is attracting makers of champagne-and caviar-stocked private jets, but regulations and other barriers to entry are keeping the potentially lucrative business grounded. Lack of airport infrastructure, high landing fees set by the government, restrictive military control of much […]
Read MoreAsian Business had a commentary article subtitled “The torch has smoothly passed to a man less inclined to favor the iron fist” “Brutal struggles have always been part and parcel of transferring power from one Chinese Communist Party leadership to the next. So what was truly remarkable about the Sept. 19 news that President Hu […]
Read MoreEdward Cody of Washington Post wrote this article on “Communist ideal lost to trappings of wealth, status.” “If any doubts remained that China has turned its back on socialist equality for the masses, they faded in exhaust fumes as Rubens Barrichello’s flaming red Ferrari F1 shrieked past the checkered flag before thousands of fans at […]
Read MoreEswn has translated a number of articles about the arrest of journalist Zhao Yan. While Zhao’s arrest has been linked to his work for the NY Times, several commentators link it to his previous reporting on peasants for the magazine China Reform.
Read MoreIn an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today, Philip Bowring writes that despite its glitzy facade, Shanghai is representative of the endemic problems plaguing the Communist Party: “As well as the most shiny example of China’s new ‘socialist’ construction, Shanghai is also an example of vast waste of public funds and the locus of […]
Read MoreAccording to Chinese statistics, pollution levels last year increased by about 12 percent from 2002. The World Bank ( news -web sites ) estimates 400,000 people in China die each year from air pollution-related illnesses. “This is a very outstanding challenge, especially for a country like China,” said United Nations Environment Programme director Klaus Toepfer. […]
Read MoreAccording to an AP report: “Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks said Tuesday it had landed a contract with China Telecom to expand data networks across southern and eastern China.
Read MoreYesterday Google issued a formal response to accusations that the company has censored news sources on their new Chinese language news service. The statement, posted on the Google blog, is here.
Read MoreAP via Toronto Star: “China’s economy should grow at an annual rate of between 8 per cent and 9 per cent this year, state media reported today, citing a top statistics official. Earlier this year, Beijing set an official growth target of 7 per cent for this year. Officials have ordered banks to curb lending […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: “China is going to revise its Election Law due to new dynamics of the direct elections of people’s congress deputies at the county and township levels. A revision draft was presented to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in August 2004. Recently, the NPC has dispatched several […]
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