From New York Times: “Anyone who has visited China’s ballooning, chaotic cities cannot help but notice the construction cranes. It is not unheard of to count 50 cranes, maybe more, rising between new concrete...
Read MoreIn an article published today, the Shanghai Star shed light on the adverse affects of China’s new healthcare system. Parents who have sick children often can’t afford to pay their medical bills and may be encouraged to abandon the child, like farmer Zeng Shaotang from the south of China. Zeng has spent all his money […]
Read MoreChina Daily had an article today on the new language, commonly used in online Chinese-language chat rooms. These are the words you often see in Chinese cyberspace, but probably have no idea what do they mean. “The language is becoming more and more popular among the country’s more than 87 million Internet users, especially young […]
Read MoreAccording to the Washington Post, the outcome of yesterday’s Hong Kong legislative election, which gave the Democrats additional seats but not a majority, “represented a setback for the campaign to persuade Beijing to allow universal suffrage here. ” The Straits Times, meanwhile, reports that, “Hong Kong media criticised Beijing yesterday for meddling in this weekend’s […]
Read MoreSome 500 international business and political leaders, academics and journalists are converging on the Grand Hyatt hotel in Beijing today. This is the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit 2004. This conference is blogged both on the The World Economic Forum Weblog and also on Fons’ China Herald.
Read MoreThe Press Trust of India reports that the Chinese government is holding anti-terrorism exercises in Tibet, ahead of a scheduled visit by envoys of the Dalai Lama. “The holding of the counter-terrorism exercise in Tibet was significant in the sense that China views the supporters of the exiled Tibetan religious leader, the Dalai Lama, as […]
Read MoreBecause of China’s growing importance and sophistication as a market for technology, especially telecommunications and the Internet, there is a rapid growing trend of international companies have research labs in China. An official from China’s Ministry of Commerce recently stated publicly that the country had as many as 600 and was adding 200 a year. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “China Unicom, the nation’s second-largest mobile phone carrier, plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, state media said. This appears to be part of government plans to tighten controls over the Internet, which currently has close to 90 million users in China, by giving just a […]
Read MoreAlso on today’s Financial Times, Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had a very good commentary piece on the recent diplomatic moves from Beijing. You need to register the FT site in order to read the whole article. Here are some of Dr. Pei’s main points: “……in recent months, […]
Read MoreFinancial Times had an article today called “China’s Hu Jintao tightens his grip on power.” “Nearly two years after he attained the top position in China’s ruling Communist party, President Hu Jintao has consolidated his power through a combination of manoeuvring and compromise with his predecessor and rival Jiang Zemin, several people within the party […]
Read MoreShould China get rid of its writing system? David Moser, a consultant to CCTV in Beijing, submitted this article to CDN, explaining his view that the cumbersome nature of the Chinese writing system results in enormous hidden costs to society, such as: (1) added years spent in grade school learning two systems, the characters and […]
Read MoreA novel, delivered via text message, was sent to cell phone users in China yesterday and has since created a buzz in Internet news sites. According to a New York Times article: “‘Out of the Fortress,’ showed up on tens of thousands of mobile telephone screens on Friday. It is the text-message novel, a new […]
Read More“China is facing an ecological and health crisis. Heavy air pollution contributes to respiratory illnesses that kill up to 300,000 people a year, many in cities but also in rural areas, the World Bank estimates. Liver and stomach cancer, linked in some studies to water pollution, are among the leading causes of death in the […]
Read More“China in 2020.” That’s a fascinating topic to speculate. Jonathan Watts started his article in The Guardian today with “By 2020, China will have overtaken Japan as the world’s second biggest economy. It may even have started to rival the US in terms of the hard power of its military. But if it is to […]
Read MoreTwo websites, China Petition Network and Supervision by Public Opinion, which aim to expose corruption and wrongdoing, are back in operation after being closed down, according to a report in Asia Times. They were both reopened at the behest of Wen Jiabao, just before the plenary session of the National People’s Congress, during which the […]
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