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 | Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone when they met last month that China is carefully watching the debate in Japan… (Japan Today, 2009-07-04 05:13:00) |
 | RESIDENTS of a second Minhang District apartment complex are waiting for government officials to reassure them that their homes are safe after another excavation-related construction mishap caused a brief evacuation... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 03:18:31) |
| NOW that the cause of the fatal accident at the Lotus Riverside apartment complex has been determined, investigations are turning their attention toward assigning blame.
Xie Liming, director of the Shanghai Work... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 03:17:05) |
| THE construction mistakes that caused a 13-story apartment house to topple last Saturday also undermined a second building, causing it to shift slightly, an investigation team told reporters yesterday in Shanghai.
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| HANGZHOU police confirmed yesterday that electrocution was the cause of the "accidental" death of a swine flu patient in a hospital in the Zhejiang Province capital on Wednesday.
"The patient died of electrocution... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 02:15:29) |
| A JOINT work team including family planning, civil affairs personnel, police and Party disciplinary officials are investigating a scandal in which babies were taken from parents and sent overseas for adoption from... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:31:18) |
| A STATUE of a bull similar to the Wall Street Bull will become a new landmark in Shanghai's financial hub of the Bund.
The statue, designed as a Chinese ox, is being sculpted now and will be in place in the Bund... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:29:41) |
| NEARLY 15 percent of employees on the Chinese mainland said they would borrow money for plastic surgery in a bid to sharpen their competitiveness in the workplace. The response came in a survey by Zhaopin.com on more... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:28:30) |
| THE Shanghai Health Bureau reported 10 new swine flu cases yesterday, taking the total city cases to 149. So far 102 patients have recovered. All those still in hospital are in a stable condition and officials are... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:28:18) |
| THE China Europe International Business School kicked off 15th anniversary celebrations yesterday by launching its first "Distinguished Alumni Awards." The winners will be selected from its 8,000 alumni for their accomplishments... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:28:00) |
| THE official English Website of the Information Office of Shanghai's municipal government (en.shio.gov.cn) will be launched tomorrow to mark the 300-day countdown to the 2010 World Expo.
The Website aims to provide... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:26:49) |
| MORE divers would be used to help in dredging work on city pipes this summer as many construction sites clogged up the system, water authorities said yesterday.
In the flood season, water collected rapidly when... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:24:31) |
| PROSECUTORS in Jilin Province have ratified the arrest of the deputy police chief Wang Yufan of Tonghua City, for his alleged involvement in organized crime.
Fourteen accomplices were also arrested, Hunan-based... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:14:38) |
| POLLUTION levels in Beijing over the past six months were the lowest in nearly a decade, environmental officials said yesterday.
"We can say air quality in Beijing has already improved. We can feel that and see... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:14:16) |
| TESTING and fine-tuning are complete on the Line 8 Metro signal system that caused six breakdowns in just 10 days from late June.
The Shanghai Metro operator is confident of a better service
The Metro authority... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:13:23) |
| HEALTH officials are urging parents to put an emphasis on sex education, especially during the summer vacation when the city's unexpected pregnancy hotline usually receives 15 to 20 percent more phone calls.
Shanghai... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:12:56) |
| SIX people were in custody for inciting brawls after a protest on Dongxin Road over an incident involving urban management officers and vendors that left four people injured, Putuo District police said yesterday.
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| JIANG Shubao, the boy aged four who received a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to treat a serious blood disease, is on the mend and was yesterday discharged from the Shanghai Children's Medical Center.
Doctors... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 01:11:28) |
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s shipbuilding venture in China will delay construction of a second dock in Dalian by three years as the global recession dries up demand.
The plan will be postponed until 2015 instead of early 2012, said Tomokazu Taniguchi, president of Kobe-based Kawasaki's shipbuilding unit. Taniguchi declined to provide details of the funding, which will be shared between the Kawasaki group and partner China Ocean Shipping Group Co., or Cosco. Kawasaki will also offer... (Japan Times, 2009-07-04 01:08:27) | |
| SEVERAL makers of personal computers including Acer, Lenovo and Sony, are providing the porn blocking Green Dam software with models sold in the country's market, despite a government decision to postpone a plan to... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 00:19:06) |
| PUBLIC concern over corruption has been sparked over newly revealed subsidy plans for local government workers amid national government transport reforms.
To cut spending on government cars, reforms have been launched... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 00:18:29) |
| THE swine flu infection involving 22 pupils in a Beijing primary school was caused by a housekeeper, according to the Beijing Health Bureau.
The unnamed servant started work for the family of a student at Nanhu... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 00:00:00) |
| LINKIN Park, the Grammy-award winning band, will honor its promise of a return to Shanghai.
The band will perform at Shanghai Stadium on August 15, two years after its city debut and following the cancellation... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 00:00:00) |
| FOUR genetically engineered pigs from Harvard University in the United States are to be sent to a Chinese hospital in the southwestern Sichuan Province for use in pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-04 00:00:00) |
 | China's northwesternmost region gets capital to finance an expanded and improved road network. (Radio Free Asia, 2009-07-03 20:12:25) |
 | It is another sunny morning in bay area. So lovely weather, and I am sitting in my favorite (or OUR favorite?) University Cafe. Interestingly, although I love new travel destinations, I always enjoy have meal or cafe at exactly the same location. So I arranged most of my Palo Alto meetings in the same place: University Cafe, 271 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA. I am enjoying my nice orange juice, and expecting my breakfast: Breakfast Burrito: eggs, Bacons, Turkey, Breakfast Sausages, Potatoes,... (Wangjianshuo's Blog, 2009-07-03 20:00:02) |
 | The Myanmar military government's third-ranked leader made a top-secret visit to North Korea in November last year during which the two sides pledged to significantly expand cooperation in military training and arms production, Radio Free Asia online reported Friday, quoting a leaked report purportedly drafted by the junta. The 37-page report in Burmese claims to contain details of the Nov. 22-29 visit to North Korea by 17 Myanmar officials, billed as a goodwill visit to China and reportedly... (Kyodo News, 2009-07-03 19:09:25) |
 | Reuters reports that Broadband industry group say U.S. rules go too far
"We are concerned that some of the new mandates seem to go well beyond current laws and FCC rules," USTelecom President Walter McCormick said.
That's strange. These same people never gave a second thought to going beyond current law and illegally wiretapping US telecommunications. Thank goodness, then Senator Obama was so forceful on providing the telecommunications industry with blankey amnesty over the illegal... (Daai Tou Laam Diary, 2009-07-03 19:07:28) |
 | After success with China, US targets Russia in strategy to reach separate agreements with world's biggest polluters Barack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned. Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana that will focus heavily on energy and climate change. From Moscow, Obama travels on to Italy for a meeting of the G8 and a gathering of the... (Guardian Unlimited, 2009-07-03 19:05:00) |
| SIX government officials in southwest China have been punished over an orphanage scandal when three children were taken away from their families who could not afford fines for violating family planning regulations.... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-03 17:41:21) |
Chinese chukkas (BBC NEWS) How polo enthrals Shanghai's moneyed class
Business › Many Chinese seek Japanese celebrity names as trademarks for business (Japan Today) The names of Japanese celebrities, such as pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, have been registered as trademarks in China by businesspeople trying to take advantage of…
China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story (The New York Review of Books) “If the Mafia boss thinks you might betray him, he will just kill you or throw you into prison.” That is not how the government of China should behave...
We're Not Selfish, They Are (Daai Tou Laam Diary) We're willing to pour billions and billions of our and their dollars in overruns to build transit links to ensure our commutes from pricey south island is fast and efficient. We've even cut the taxi fares for our weekend trips out to Sai Kung to eat seafood or travel home to Sai Kung/Clearwater Bay after those late nights in Lan Kwai Fong/Wan Chai. We've raised their transit fees twice in the last three years and dragged our feet since the last Central reclamation on spending...
Desertification worsening in Tibet: Report (Phayul) Desertification is worsening in Tibet, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. According to the report, authorities in Tibet aim to halt the spread of the desert in Tibet by next year, hoping to stem the effects of years of mining, tree-felling and
Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable to Intrusion (New York Times) The program would let outsiders monitor a computer’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses, according to those who have examined it.
The Day China's Heart Froze (newmatilda.com) Twenty years ago today, thousands were being killed in the streets around Tiananmen Square. Dan Edwards in Beijing speaks to survivors about a wound that hasn't healed
Founding fathers (BBC NEWS) The French town with an unlikely Chinese past
China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy? (Dissent Magazine) How can one know whether China will or will not democratize? In general, as Karl Popper showed in The Poverty of Historicism, political futures in even the middle distance are unknowable because of the inherently uncertain and contingent dynamics of politics. Therefore, an analyst should focus on the multiple factors that make different futures more or less likely.
The Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global (Mother Jones) Westbound on the eastbound Beijing expressway long before Mr. Zhang's crowning highway maneuver, I'd realized that his flamboyant unpredictability was an asset. I'd hired him as driver and guide for a three-day trip from Beijing to Inner Mongolia on the recommendation of a Chinese environmentalist who'd enumerated all of Mr. Zhang's virtues except the most important his suppleness under pressure, which would enable us to overcome the obstacles that are a constant feature of travel in China.
The Last Visitor (Dissent Magazine) Beijing is an international city, but my neighborhood isn't. I live in the far northwest part of the city, outside the fifth ring road, and in three years here I've seen a grand total of two other foreigners. I moved to this corner with my Chinese family because the air is better and there's more of a community feel to the place. My walks through the nearby migrant worker districts serve as a reminder that China's economic miracle has yet to extend to the bulk of the population.
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