In 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 […]
Read MoreAP via VOA: “The dramatically increasing demand for oil in two emerging giants in Asia, China and India, has contributed to rising oil prices worldwide. Petroleum industry experts believe rapid growth in China, in particular, could increase competition for scarce energy resources and undermine global peace. Within the past decade, China has gone from being […]
Read MoreFrom AP via ABC news: China’s Communist Party called on its members Sunday to improve their ability to run an increasingly complex nation, complaining in an unusually self-critical statement that some of its own leaders lack integrity and warning that the “life and death of the party” could hang in the balance. The appeal came […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times today: “China’s investment in real estate development has slowed down month by month this year owing to the government’s macro-economics control measures. But that’s good news for foreign investors: From January to July, Sino-foreign joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and Sino-foreign cooperative ventures reported growth of 87.4%, 60.3% and 60.% respectively – […]
Read MoreFrom NPR: “The environmental consequences of China’s manufacturing boom are staggering. The worsening air and water pollution are causing serious health problems. NPR’s Renee Montagne talks with Elizabeth Economy, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.” Click here to listen to the program. Thanks to Kevin Wen for the link.
Read MoreA new monitoring program will be implemented by the government within months, read a story from Xinhuanet today. The Chinese government will track power usage by internet cafes and cut off their electricity between 12 am and 8...
Read MoreThis article is nine days old but it showed another perspective on the Google China News Service issue. The article was on China Economic Net, a online news site based inside of China. “Recently, Google Inc., a search engine operator, launched its trial Chinese version of news with a low key; before that, it had […]
Read More“Authorities have given China’s Internet and telecom operators, regulators and police a deadline: clear the country of online smut before October 1, the National Day holiday marking the birth of the People’s Republic. The task force created to carry out this “people’s war against electronic pornography,” involving at least five ministries and government departments, has […]
Read MoreThis is AP’s story entitled “Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship” “Google Inc.’s recently launched news service in China doesn’t display results from Web sites blocked by that country’s authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to ‘do no evil.’ ”
Read MoreThe Washington Post run a story entitled “In China’s cities, a turn from factories” by Peter S. Goodman today: “Dongguan, China – In a country with a supposedly bottomless supply of labor, the Daojiong Hequn Plastic Processing factory has somehow hit bottom. The plant in southern China can no longer find enough young women willing […]
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