AP 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 […]
Read MoreJournalist Zhao Yan, who was arrested this week in Shanghai, was also working as a researcher for the New York Times bureau in Beijing. He is accused of “revealing state secrets,” though it’s unclear so far whether his arrest is linked to his own journalism, which was critical of government policy, or to his work […]
Read MoreAnother article on the growth in stress-related illnesses in China. This one is from the Guardian. “China’s economic transformation is damaging the health of many of its people, including millions of urban professionals who are suffering from stress and the change to fattier western diets. A study by the Red Cross Society of China found […]
Read MoreColumnist Steve Pearlstein wrote on Washington Post today: “The overwhelming impression after 10 days here is of a country doing a remarkable job providing 50 million new jobs each year, lifting millions out of poverty, building the infrastructure for a modern economy and training an impressive new cadre of professionals. But in following Japan and […]
Read MoreA profile of Pan Yue on the International Herald Tribune: “Known for years in intellectual circles, Pan has become known nationwide for his outspokenness in a country where environmental awareness is rising even as environmental degradation is widespread and severe. His job as a deputy director of China’s top environmental agency, if low on the […]
Read MoreAfter news broke that Google has been accused of omitting certain sources in their new Chinese language news service, readers at Slashdot.org (“News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”) have been in a lively debate over the issues. Read the arguments here. Last year, Wired magazine published an article “Google vs. Evil”: “The world’s biggest, best-loved […]
Read MoreReuters: “Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O Chief Executive John Chambers said China was well on the way to becoming the world’s technology hub as he revealed plans for his company’s first research center in the country. “China will become the IT (information technology) center of the world,” Chambers told a Beijing news conference on Thursday. ” […]
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