Feng Liang wrote on Asia Times Online: “After Chinese incumbent president Hu Jintao replaced his predecessor Jiang Zemin as the country’s new commander-in-chief, political observers say China’s power shift has finally been completed. Since the Communist Party’s decisive meeting last month, the fourth-generation of leadership – with moderate reformist Hu as the paramount leader – […]
Read MoreThis is from Xinhua today: “China will publish “The Piano Teacher” by Elfriede Jelinek, recently named the winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in literature, in simplified Chinese characters within a month, according to Beijing October Art Publishing House on Saturday. ” Reading this, I cannot help to recall how differently Chinese government, through Xinhua […]
Read MoreFrom Redif.com: “China ranks second among emerging markets with a 11.8 per cent share of the non-life insurance premium segment, while India ranks 9th with a 3 per cent market share. Both the Asian nations will, however, emerge as the largest insurance markets, according to Swiss Re. Interestingly it is the huge population base of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Doctor Tang Denghua opened the letter handed to him by a girl in her early 20s sitting before him – one of his dozens of patients he sees in a day at the Institute of Mental Health at Peking University. He frowned after reading it. Distressing words filled the page. Tang, a […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for translating Radio Free Asia’s interview with Chen Guidi, an author of Survey of Chinese Peasants.
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Hong Kong’s new Legislative Council members have taken the territory’s official oath of office. In last month’s elections, 25 of the 60 seats went to pro-democracy candidates – more than ever before. The new members are likely to create problems for Hong Kong’s leader Tung Chee-hwa and his pro-China government. One of the […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: “Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., a leading Chinese computer chip maker, plans to begin supplying chips using 90-nanometer technology to major clients such as Texas Instruments Inc. beginning next year, the companies said Friday. The plan marks a breakthrough in China’s acquisition of advanced technology. Beijing has long sought to nurture domestic semiconductor […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Australians will vote on Saturday to choose their next prime minister, and closer ties with China and better relations with Asia are on the agenda. Regardless of who is elected, it is clear that like other regional states, Australia steadily is being drawn closer to China – and maintaining a close, especially […]
Read MoreA system for censoring and categorizing online games will be installed by the end of the month, with ratings systems for books and movies to come in the near future. Games will now be categorized by age appropriateness, similar...
Read MoreThis Statesman article talks about the migration of people living in rural areas to the larger cities. It covers this issue on a larger, worldwide scale (mentions legal and illegal migrations, cross-border migrations, etc…) as well as in China. In the fourth paragraph it talks about the migration specifically in China. It also talks about […]
Read MoreChina Daily, an online news site, reports that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, rejects the annual “International Religious Freedom Report 2004” published by the United States Government. Kong claims the Chinese Government has been protecting citizens’ religious freedoms according to the law. China Daily quotes Kong saying, “The US is pointing its finger at […]
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post (via China Study Group) reported that “About 3,000 workers protested outside an electronics factory in Shenzhen yesterday against low pay and harsh working conditions. The workers, employed by the Hong Kong-mainland joint-venture company Computime, rallied outside the factory early in the morning, blocking the entrance and part of a main road. […]
Read MoreThe Science and Technology Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games launched a new website to promote the theme “High Tech Olympics” (ÁßëÊäÄ••Ëøê). On one level, this is simply an effort to showcase China’s technological achievements. But the theme “High Tech Olympics” is also designed to address other concerns. Committee Vice-Chair Deng Nan (ÈÇìÊ•†, daughter of […]
Read MoreThe days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining before opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing are now displayed on a 46-foot tall countdown clock at Tiananmen Square. Officially unveiled on September 21, the clock stands near the entrance of the National Museum at the eastern edge of the Square. With this installation, there […]
Read More“French President Jacques Chirac, in an interview released Thursday, repeated calls for a speedy end to a European Union ban on arms sales to China. The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing which sparked the embargo was “another time”, he said in an interview with China’s state news agency Xinhua. ” The full article is […]
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