AFP reported that the Chinese government plans to carry out the first ever nationwide survey on the sale of blood and HIV/Aids: “The Ministry of Health issued an order Wednesday requesting provinces and cities throughout China carry out a comprehensive search to ‘fully grasp’ who sold blood and test them for the HIV virus. ‘Not […]
Read MoreFrom AFP today: “China and Russia signed an agreement in which Beijing formally endorsed Moscow’s bid to enter the World Trade Organization ( news -web sites ) (WTO). The agreement was signed by Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and his counterpart Russian Trade Minister German Gref during the first day of President Vladimir Putin […]
Read More“Cory Doctorow, outreach coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, did just that last week at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, by questioning Google board member and venture capitalist John Doerr about the company’s policy toward China. You can bet there will be more conversations like that in the years to come. ” Read […]
Read MoreBBC: “One Chinese hostage held by Islamic militants in South Waziristan has been killed and one freed in a dramatic rescue mission by Pakistani forces. All five kidnappers were killed, military spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said. A Pakistani guard and a soldier who were also taken captive had been released earlier. ” More is here.
Read MoreJean-Pierre Cabestan wrote on International Herald Tribune today about President Chirac’s recent visit to Beijing. “President Jacques Chirac’s recent visit to China has been presented by the French government as a great success. Indeed an unprecedented number of contracts, amounting to more than $4 billion, were signed, and political relations look as spotless as a […]
Read MoreThe official Xinhua News Agency dubbed the recent visit of President Jacques Chirac as the start of a new “honeymoon relationship”. Europe is courting China for its vast market ” and because an East-West...
Read MoreJonathan Watts profiles 76-year-old village photographer Li Tianbing, who got his first camera when he was 12 by selling his mother’s cow in their isolated, mountainous village. “Ever since, Li has been making a unique record of peasant life in one of the poorest parts of the world. Li estimates he has carried his Thorton-Packard […]
Read MorePakistani tribesmen failed to gain the release of two Chinese engineers, Wang Ende and Wang Peng, being held hostage in South Waziristan tribal region, near the Afghan border, after talks were held with the kidnappers: “Abdullah [Mehsud], a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who is at a separate location from the kidnappers, insisted he would not […]
Read MoreJonathan Mirsky wrote on International Herald Tribune: “Someone should tell President Jacques Chirac of France what Zhou Enlai said when Henry Kissinger asked him for his judgment on the French Revolution. “It’s too early to say,” Zhou allegedly replied. . This might make Chirac reconsider his recommendation last week that the European Union should lift […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters today: “Baidu.com, China’s largest Web search engine, says its revenues will more than double in 2004 and could double again next year as more companies pay to feature in search results. Baidu, founded in 1999, boasts 350 million Web pages in its database of searchable sites and counts Google among its investors. […]
Read MoreBoxun news service has posted a statement “Is Google Crossing the Line?” on their site. Asking, “The question is, how far can Google or other companies go in China? ” Boxun uses Yahoo as an example to show how international companies who agree to operate by China’s rules easily violate their users’ privacy rights. About […]
Read MoreHere is the full text of the UN Secretary-General’s speech at Qing Hua on October 11, 2004. He highlighted issues of poverty, disease, and environmental degradation in his speech. THE SECRETARY-GENERAL SPEECH AT QING HUA UNIVERSITY Beijing, 11 October 2004 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour for me to speak at one of […]
Read MoreWang Chu wrote a very interesting article on Asia Times Online today: “Over the past few years, Chinese scholars have begun to re-examine the cause of the collapse of the former superpower Soviet Union and the Eastern European bloc from an independent and academic perspective. Their conclusions do not necessarily coincide with the established version […]
Read MoreThere has been a wave of protests on the internet and from Chinese democracy and human rights groups after Chirac made the remark that the EU should end the arms embargo on China, which was imposed after the 1989 massacre of student protesters, because the massacre was a thing of “another time.” The protest statements […]
Read MoreAs the world marks The World Day Against the Death Penalty, China’s large numbers of annual death sentences and executions once again are under the spotlight, as reported in this story, Does China execute 10,000 people a...
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