The New York Times reports that, “Violent clashes between members of the Muslim Hui ethnic group and the majority Han group left nearly 150 people dead and forced authorities to declare martial law in a section of Henan Province in central China, journalists and witnesses in the region said today. The fighting flared late last […]
Read MoreFrom New Zealand’s Stuff website: “China shut 1600 internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($NZ18 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media say.”
Read MoreFrom AP’s reporter John Leicester: “Armed with digital cameras and videocams, and still connected to home by their cell phones, Chinese with a pent-up hunger for fresh experiences, cultures and shopping are heading in droves to countries that a few decades back were as inaccessible to most of them as the moon. Last year, Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post: “Development of hydroelectric power will be accelerated to solve China’s energy shortage, senior officials say, even though they acknowledge the dams’ impact on the environment and displacing of people. Attending a United Nations symposium on hydropower and sustainable development in Beijing yesterday, mainland officials said much hope had been placed […]
Read MoreWang Xiangwei wrote on South China Morning Post: “The mainland’s leading environmental official warned yesterday that serious pollution could choke off economic growth and widen inequality between the rich and poor and between the affluent eastern region and the underdeveloped west. In a damning report published by the online edition of the People’s Daily, Pan […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times today: “China will continue to limit lending to fast-growing sectors of the economy through administrative directives, despite the decision to introduce more conventional monetary tools to rein in bank lending with the first interest rate rise in nine years. ”
Read MoreFrom Washington Post today: “Brad Kinkelaar, whose mutual fund ranks among the top 15 percent in the United States this year, is depending on dividends from shipping port operators in China to help propel his investment returns. ”
Read More“The people who invented gunpowder, paper and the compass are once again making some scientific noise. Although still lagging far behind Western researchers in most fields, they have carved out some notable niches, including cloning and genomics.” Read the full article on the Globe and Mail here.
Read MoreOn today’s New York Times, Christopher Hawthorne wrote a story of “Ai Weiwei helped design the Olympics stadium for China. ” “Thanks to his work with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron on the Olympic stadium being built here for the 2008 Summer Games, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei suddenly finds himself with a […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “The spread of technology and demands for more market transparency will make it impossible for China to prevent the release of all information deemed a state secret, a human rights group said on Thursday. That could put pressure on China to reform its state secret laws, although the government is expected to […]
Read MoreAlthough China has rarely been mentioned in the US presidential campaign, candidate John Kerry gave an interview to Hong Kong’s Singtao Daily, in which he condemned China’s crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, and promised to raise the issue with Chinese leaders if elected on Tuesday: “Beijing hasn’t completely fulfilled the autonomy and political rights […]
Read MoreThe United States is unsuccessfully trying to find a third country willing to take several Uighur “terror suspects” who are expected to be released from Guantanamo Bay, fearing that they will be persecuted or executed if they return to China, the Financial Times reports. Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Norway have refused to accept the refugees, […]
Read MoreAccording to the AFP, Taiwanese police are checking out a Chinese man’s story that he shot Chen Shui-bian during the presidential campaign in March: “While being questioned about a separate shooting case, Wang Erjiang surprisingly told police in southern Kaohsiung county that he had shot at Chen in March. ‘He said he was angry at […]
Read MoreIn an article about government control of the Internet, the Globe and Mail interviews Liu Di, the “Stainless Steel Mouse” and gives an update on writer Du Daobin: “Ms. Liu is now a major player in an intense tug of war between China’s police-state apparatus and a growing number of politically astute Internet users who […]
Read More“Starting from scratch, China’s expressway has topped 30,000 km after an endeavor of over ten years’ construction, and the total mileage now ranks the second in the world, said the officials from Ministry of Communications (MOC) on 27 October. ” Read this report on People’s Daily here.
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