BBC reported today: “China has warned that several of its key regions face more power shortages this winter and spring. China suffered shortages in the summer, as temperatures soared and air conditioning units used up energy. While cooler weather has temporarily helped, the need for heating and maintenance will soon mean facilities cannot meet demand, […]
Read MoreBBC quotes DSL Forum and reports that China has more DSL lines than any other country in the world. But the 13 million lines only reach 1% of China’s massive population. The story attributes the drastic development to growing online gaming community and the use of broadband in education. It also notices that the expansion […]
Read MoreFrom KansasCity.com today: “The rise of social activism underscores the expanding liberties that many people in China say they are experiencing. But it coincides with other trends that convey how turbulent China has become as the Communist Party opens up the economy but keeps a tight grip on power. The number of citizens filing last-ditch […]
Read MoreEswn has translated two new documents on the lawsuit against the authors of An Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查）： The defendants’ summation statement and an interview with the plaintiff. The two authors, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, recently won the prestigious Lettre Ulysses award in Germany.
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced plans to rein in domestic reporting about Japan in an effort to improve bilateral relations. According to the Straits Times, “The move comes at a time of worsening public sentiment in both countries towards the other due to historical issues, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, […]
Read More“The Group of Seven industrialized nations invited top Chinese economic officials to a dinner last Friday. It was about time that China was invited to a G-7 meeting. ” This is a commentary article on the Christian Science Monitor today, called “China comes to dinner.”
Read More“Companies need a game plan to protect intellectual property before investing in China, or risk being stripped of their ideas and opportunities, says a report released today by Boston Consulting Group. “China is home to a tangle of IP issues, with large sums of money and future strategic positions at stake,” says the report, Facing […]
Read MoreTimes online had an article today on China’s yuan rate . “Expectations of China floating its currency on foreign exchange markets, with large implications for the global economy, have dimmed after industrialised nations declined to increase pressure on Beijing. The G7 group of leading economies said, at the end of a meeting in the US, […]
Read MoreWhile welcoming certain gestures by the Chinese government, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes after a visit to China that its recommendations in a 1997 report have not been implemented: “Namely, the provision which stipulates that everyone shall not be consider guilty until convicted has not been amended to clearly stipulate the presumption […]
Read MoreOn a four-day tour of Mexico, the Dalai Lama said Sunday that deformed birds and other wildlife in remote corners of Chinese-controlled Tibet are indicative of nuclear waste dumping, according to an AP article. The Dalai Lama, 69, has lived in exile in China since a failed uprising against the Chinese government in Tibet in […]
Read MoreChina Daily has written about the situation of migrant workers who are flooding China’s cities: “Zhou [Haiwang, deputy director of the Institute of Population and Development at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences] specifically notes the four advantages brought by migrant workers: they make direct money for the cities; they provide abundant and low-cost labour; […]
Read MoreIn Asia Times, Colin Mackerras reviews a new book, Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland – Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, a collection of essays edited by S Frederick Starr: “Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland is not the first book to focus on Xinjiang… However, it is the first to take an all-round view on Xinjiang […]
Read More“When the opening lyrics of “Dark Side of the Moon” floated through the air at a Beijing bar on a recent evening, patrons sang along to the Pink Floyd classic. “Breathe, breathe in the air,” they chanted in chorus. They seemed oblivious to the irony, in a city that is fast becoming one of the […]
Read MoreAssociated Press (via Washington Post): “China’s capital saw double on Saturday as Beijing opened its first festival for twins, attracting hundreds of look-alike siblings, a rare sight in a society where birth control rules limit most urban families to one child. Twins in matching cowboy hats, sweaters or scarves mingled, chatted and performed on stage […]
Read MoreFrom the The Goethe-Institute website: “In Berlin on the 2nd of October, 2004, an international jury composed of writers from ten linguistic regions announced the 2004 winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage . The annual Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage was established in 2003 initiated by the […]
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