Reuters via Yahoo! News: “International Business Machines Corp. is reaping the rewards of a decade-long push into China’s business computer market and is eyeing upward of a 50 percent share, China General Manager Henry Chow said. Citing industry figures, the world’s largest computer company boasts a 43.6 percent share of China’s market for business computers […]
Read MoreVia CNN, Reuters reported that “China has succeeded in curbing investment and credit growth, and the priority now is to free up interest rates, a central banker said in remarks that may signal long-awaited capital market reforms are drawing nearer. ” Read the whole article here.
Read MorePhilip P. Pan just had a story of a Chinese AIDS activist Li Dan on the Washington Post today. “The rise and fall of Li and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle that has begun to reshape the world’s largest authoritarian political system: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: “The country’s ISPs are working with U.S. outfits to halt the deluge of junk e-mail pouring out of the Middle Kingdom It has been clear for some time now that China is a major new battleground in the war against junk e-mail.” The full article is here.
Read MoreFrom New York Times: “Anyone who has visited China’s ballooning, chaotic cities cannot help but notice the construction cranes. It is not unheard of to count 50 cranes, maybe more, rising between new concrete...
Read MoreIn an article published today, the Shanghai Star shed light on the adverse affects of China’s new healthcare system. Parents who have sick children often can’t afford to pay their medical bills and may be encouraged to abandon the child, like farmer Zeng Shaotang from the south of China. Zeng has spent all his money […]
Read MoreChina Daily had an article today on the new language, commonly used in online Chinese-language chat rooms. These are the words you often see in Chinese cyberspace, but probably have no idea what do they mean. “The language is becoming more and more popular among the country’s more than 87 million Internet users, especially young […]
Read MoreAccording to the Washington Post, the outcome of yesterday’s Hong Kong legislative election, which gave the Democrats additional seats but not a majority, “represented a setback for the campaign to persuade Beijing to allow universal suffrage here. ” The Straits Times, meanwhile, reports that, “Hong Kong media criticised Beijing yesterday for meddling in this weekend’s […]
Read MoreSome 500 international business and political leaders, academics and journalists are converging on the Grand Hyatt hotel in Beijing today. This is the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit 2004. This conference is blogged both on the The World Economic Forum Weblog and also on Fons’ China Herald.
Read MoreThe Press Trust of India reports that the Chinese government is holding anti-terrorism exercises in Tibet, ahead of a scheduled visit by envoys of the Dalai Lama. “The holding of the counter-terrorism exercise in Tibet was significant in the sense that China views the supporters of the exiled Tibetan religious leader, the Dalai Lama, as […]
Read MoreBecause of China’s growing importance and sophistication as a market for technology, especially telecommunications and the Internet, there is a rapid growing trend of international companies have research labs in China. An official from China’s Ministry of Commerce recently stated publicly that the country had as many as 600 and was adding 200 a year. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “China Unicom, the nation’s second-largest mobile phone carrier, plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, state media said. This appears to be part of government plans to tighten controls over the Internet, which currently has close to 90 million users in China, by giving just a […]
Read MoreAlso on today’s Financial Times, Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had a very good commentary piece on the recent diplomatic moves from Beijing. You need to register the FT site in order to read the whole article. Here are some of Dr. Pei’s main points: “……in recent months, […]
Read MoreFinancial Times had an article today called “China’s Hu Jintao tightens his grip on power.” “Nearly two years after he attained the top position in China’s ruling Communist party, President Hu Jintao has consolidated his power through a combination of manoeuvring and compromise with his predecessor and rival Jiang Zemin, several people within the party […]
Read MoreShould China get rid of its writing system? David Moser, a consultant to CCTV in Beijing, submitted this article to CDN, explaining his view that the cumbersome nature of the Chinese writing system results in enormous hidden costs to society, such as: (1) added years spent in grade school learning two systems, the characters and […]
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