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 | Since riots in July 2009, the Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds and tried to soothe frayed nerves. But the push has done little to repair the mutual distrust. (International Herald Tribune, 2010-09-04 23:30:48) |
HONG KONG — The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the Philippines, Australia and Britain, and who is known for her media skills. A few weeks ago, those skills were fully on display when she gave an interview to Die Zeit, a highly respected German weekly newspaper. Not surprisingly, the subject of human rights in China was discussed.... (Japan Times, 2010-09-04 22:24:00) | |
 | This is the second day I am in Weihai 威海. Here is some observation during the day. Where is Weihai Weihai is at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, at the other side of the Korea Peninsula. In that area, there are four major sea-side cities: Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, and Rizhao. My Impression Weihai is a newly raised city. According to the plate number, it is 鲁K - traditionally, the capital city of the province is numbered A, and the cities are then... (Wangjianshuo's Blog, 2010-09-04 18:32:49) |
 | The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday has climbed to 21, and 27 people are still missing, rescue officials said Saturday.
The toll stood at 16 late Friday.
Local health authorities have beefed up disinfection to prevent outbreaks of diseases, said Su Shaode, head of Longyang District Health Bureau in Baoshan City.
The mudslides occurred at about 10:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hedong Village of Longyang District in Baoshan City.
Of... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 18:20:30) |
| The State Stamp Bureau of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has issued a new postage stamp to mark the DPRK's National Pavilion Day at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, state media reported on Saturday.
The stamp bears the emblem of the Expo and its theme "Better City, Better Life" written in Korean, Chinese and English, the Korean Central News Agency said.
In the center of the stamps is the DPRK Pavilion's emblem with a picture of Chollima, a symbolic bronze statue of the DPRK.
... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 18:19:31) |
| A senior Chinese legislator on Friday called for global collective efforts to address food security issues and said developing countries bear the brunt of food crises.
Food security concerns not only individual economies and people's well-being, but also world peace and security, said Jiang Shusheng, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), in a speech at the ongoing G20 Speakers' Consultation in Ottawa.
"Today, the global food security... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 18:18:46) |
 | Delhi wants China to keep out of Kashmiri affairs, but it should focus on a deal that sees troops all on sides withdrawing The claim that more than 7,000 Chinese troops have been handed "de facto control" of Gilgit-Baltistan, a northern part of Kashmir, by Islamabad, has set alarm bells ringing in Delhi. India – which, like its nuclear-armed rival Pakistan, claims the entire state – has long been worried that the People's Liberation Army was working on roads and railway projects in the... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-09-04 18:05:53) |
 | PIANIST Li Yundi is packaged as the "Piano Prince," the elegant patrician and young romantic whose music is poetry. Wang Zhiyu reports.
For the extravaganza opening of its flagship store in Lujiazhui last month,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| SHANGHAI may ever-changing with sleek new architecture, but the distinctive buildings from the vibrant 1920s and 30s make the city come alive with its textured history. Hungarian architect Laszlo Hudec was one of the... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| CHINA'S second lunar probe, the Chang'e-2, will fly much faster than its predecessor and reach lunar orbit within a shorter period of time.
The probe is due to launch at the end of the year.
China launched... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| A SENIOR Russian trade official is visiting the World Expo to prepare for Russia Pavilion Day and a major business and technology delegation aiming to increase China-Russia cooperation.
Stanislav Naumov, deputy... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| THE number of visitors to the World Expo continued to climb yesterday after they hit an all-time low of 181,700 last Wednesday, a figure attributed to the warning of an approaching typhoon and the fact that it would... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| A MOCK court was set up in the EU Pavilion yesterday where Chinese and European experts simulate enforcement proceedings in a patent infringement case.
The simulation was to raise awareness of an agreement signed... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| AUTHORITIES said yesterday that 87 children had fallen ill at a kindergarten in northwest China's Gansu Province on Friday.
A panel of experts said the illness could be related to yogurt served at the Lantai Kindergarten... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| CHINA'S national weather forecaster warned yesterday that tropical storm Malou was on course to strike the country's east coast just as Lion Rock was abating.
The National Meteorological Center cancelled the... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| REPAIR work on the east section of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year in Dandong city, northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to a local... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-04 18:00:00) |
| This is the second day I am in Weihai 威海. Here is some observation during the day. Where is Weihai Weihai is at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula, at the other side of the Korea Peninsula. In that area, there are four major sea-side cities: Qingdao, Yantai, Weihai, and Rizhao. My Impression Weihai is a newly raised city. According to the plate number, it is 鲁K - traditionally, the capital city of the province is numbered A, and the cities are then... (Wangjianshuo's Blog, 2010-09-04 17:32:49) |
| China's national weather forecaster warned Saturday that tropical storm Malou was on course to strike the country's east coast just as Lionrock was abating.
The National Meteological Center (NMC) cancelled the typhoon warning for Lionrock, as it was downgraded to a tropical low pressure front in southern Guangdong Province Friday. It would continue to abate as it moves west at a speed of 10 kilometers an hour.
However, heavy winds and torrential rains would continue along the southern... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 16:08:55) |
| Chinese nationals in Austria and some local people got together Friday to mark the 65th anniversary of V-day of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
At a forum in memory of the anti-Japanese war, the 30-strong Chinese nationals and local people recalled how China, with international help, defeated the Japanese invaders.
Addressing the meeting, Shi Mingde, Chinese ambassador to Austria, said patriotism was the greatest intellectual treasure and tradition of China... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 16:08:23) |
 | Newly planned labor regulations that would grant the right of collective bargaining to workers in the southern Chinese industrial city of Shenzhen are causing concern among Japanese-affiliated companies in the special economic zone. The impending rules, which could trigger demand for massive wage increases of over 70 percent, have prompted the Guangzhou office of the Japan External Trade Organization, a Japanese government trade promoting agency, to file a petition with local authorities to... (Kyodo News, 2010-09-04 15:10:11) |
 | A total of 87 children had to be hospitalised after eating yoghurt at a kindergarten in north-west China, state media reported, as local officials called for better food safety supervision. (ABC News, 2010-09-04 14:03:00) |
| A total of 50,000 cotton-padded tents will be sent to homeless quake survivors in Yushu, northwestern Qinghai Province, by the end of this month, local authorities said Saturday.
The first batch of 5,000 cotton tents are arriving for the homeless survivors in the hardest-hit Jiegu Township, said Ma Danzhu, head of the disaster relief department with the Qinghai provincial civil affairs bureau.
The new homes can not be finished within the year due to the early coming of winter in the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 13:33:28) |
 | For those of you who were hoping to join in on this year's TEDxShanghai but for some reason couldn't make the actual event, they're taking a page out of last year's playbook and streaming everything on Tudou. TED conferences are "famed intellectual destinations for 'Ideas Worth Spreading' through high quality influencer speech videos." Basically, people in the know give lectures that might help you better understand some topic that coverges on the three topics of "technology, entertainment... (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-04 11:00:00) |
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Rescuers transport disaster relief materials to Hedong Village of Baoshan City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept.3, 2010. As of Friday afternoon, the landslide that hit the village caused 16 people dead and 32 still missing. Rescue work was underway. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)
The death toll from mudslides that hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday c ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:57:59) |
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Top Communist Party of China (CPC) and state leaders Hu Jintao (C, front), Wu Bangguo (4th R, front), Wen Jiabao (4th L, front), Jia Qinglin (3rd R, front), Li Changchun (3rd L, front), Xi Jinping (2nd R, front), Li Keqiang (2nd L, front), He Guoqiang (1st R, front) and Zhou Yongkang (1st L, front) pay homage to the war martyrs who died fighting Japanese aggression during the S ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:55:55) |
 | North Korea is grappling with food shortages, interviews with defectors and Chinese traders suggest. The privations come on the eve of a meeting that could signal its biggest political transformation in decades. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-04 10:30:46) |
| In commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the victory in the anti-Japan War (1937-1945), China's central government will give some veterans of the war a one-off cash payment of 3,000 yuan (441 U.S. dollars), to honor their contributions to China and its people.
The payment will go to veterans who joined the army between July 7, 1937 and Sep. 2, 1945, and who currently live in the rural areas, said a statement published on the Civil Affairs Ministry's website Friday.
Local civil affairs... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:28:05) |
| Villagers in Yichang City in central China's Hubei Province have called for a martyrs' cemetery to commemorate 3,000 Kuomintang (KMT) soldiers who died fighting the Japanese invaders during World War II.
Li Xian'ai from Nanbian Village has found dozens of skeletons on his land. He said other villagers, too, often come across bones when working their land.
The skeletons are the remains of a division of KMT soldiers, said Yu Guobin, deputy head of the cultural relics survey office of Yilin... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:27:24) |
| Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki met here Friday with chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature with both promising to make efforts to enhance bilateral ties.
During the meeting, Chen expressed appreciation to President Kibaki and the Kenya government for the pivotal role they played in brokering peace in Sudan and the horn of Africa.
Chen assured President Kibaki that China would provide the necessary support for peace... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:18:25) |
| Senior Chinese and U.S. diplomats have agreed to work together to advance the stalled six-party talks on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, held separate meetings during a visit here between Aug. 31 and Sept. 3 with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, special envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Stephen Bosworth, Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and the White House chief... (People's Daily, 2010-09-04 10:17:48) |
Think Again: Asia\'s Rise (FOREIGN POLICY) Don\'t believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the rest of the region take over the world, if they ever do.
Is China Really an \'East Asian success story\'? (Policy ) State-controlled investment in China provides poor financial returns, explains John Lee
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.
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