Doctor Jiang Yanyong is not being allowed to travel to the Philippines to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, Asia’s highest honor. According to a VOA report in Chinese, Dr. Jiang was visited by a military official who told him that, as a military employee, he is not allowed to collect foreign awards. The VOA report […]
Read More“China is no longer self-sufficient in food, the country today increasingly has to buy abroad, raising global prices. ” This Guardian article raised a critical important issue. According to the article, “China’s leaders have raised the alarm about their country’s ability to feed itself as rapid development sucks land, water and people from the food-producing […]
Read MoreChinese Vice Premier Wu Yi (aka the “Iron Lady”) has been named the second most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, following only Condaleezza Rice. The full report is here: “Proud, elegant, intelligent, Wu Yi impressed her party’s leaders when she deftly helped hammer out five trade agreements with Russia in 1999 and […]
Read MoreThis is a research report from Deloitte Research. “Everyone recognizes China as a low-cost manufacturer and a huge potential market. But most do not realize China is emerging as a key player in shaping global technology standards. This new Deloitte Research study looks at how China’s growing influence on standards could define global competition in […]
Read More“China, the world’s largest cellular phone market with more than 305 million subscribers, is fast emerging as a leading center for mobile phone design as well. ” Read the Cox News Service article here.
Read MoreThe wife of an anti-corruption crusader was severely injured in a bomb attack on their home last week. According to an AP report, “The attack Aug. 19 on the home of Li Haisheng, head of the city’s anti-corruption bureau, highlights the perils faced by officials and ordinary Chinese who try to fight the rampant corruption […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaTechNews: “Skype, a free peer-to-peer voice software which can be downloaded from the Internet, has recently launched a new function called SkypeOut, a radically new kind of IP service. The communication signals of SkypeOut are transmitted via the Internet, instead of through normal telecommunications networks. According to published reports in China, Skype’s launch in […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has cancelled 4800 development zones. The China Daily reports that, “According to incomplete statistics from Ministry of Land and Resources, among 6,866 development zones across the country, 70 per cent were found to have illegally acquired land or were left unused. ” The full article is on Asia News Net.
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post has reported that the libel trial against the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry has opened in Anhui Province: “A court in Anhui has begun hearing a libel case against the authors of a best-selling book which exposed the plight of peasants in China. The claim has been brought […]
Read MoreAP reported today that “China’s communist leaders are easing their official prudishness about sexuality, and carrying out the first nationwide survey on women’s sex lives. The 2004 China Female Sex Survey will ask respondents how often they have sex, whether they’ve had extramarital affairs and other questions, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. ” […]
Read MoreOn CNBlog, Andrea, the founder of Living in China, told us the story of how “Free Culture” being translated into Chinese. “It all started with a spontaneous scribble on a personal blog: Isaac Mao saw the steam gained by a few American bloggers who have took a creative spin and turned Lawrence Lessig’s latest book […]
Read More“China’s migrant workers are owed a staggering 360 billion yuan (43 billion dollars) by their employers, with some still waiting to get paid for jobs they did 10 years ago, state media said. A nationwide...
Read MoreA report I recently wrote for the Committee to Protect Journalists, about media reforms and the increase in violence against journalists in China, has just been released. From the press release: “In China’s tightly proscribed media environment, journalists have long faced censorship and imprisonment. But as the media in China become market-oriented-and as journalists report […]
Read MoreA very good article on Economists about “the balance between sustainable development and economic growth” in China. “In a country where the public is not free to speak, too many courts are toothless and environmental groups remain on a tight leash, it will be hard to know if the government’s avowedly green policies are being […]
Read MoreFons and Stephen pointed out to me that yesterday’s post “30,000 flee China gas disaster, 191+ killed” was old news. I just took it down from CDN.
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