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 | Australian treasurer Wayne Swan hailed the growth as 'an outstanding set of figures' Australia's economy grew at its fastest pace in three years in the second quarter as demand from China and elsewhere in Asia boosted exports of iron ore and other commodities. The figures released Wednesday show the economy expanded 1.2% in the April-June quarter from the previous quarter, accelerating from revised growth of 0.7% in the first quarter. Australia weathered the global economic downturn better... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-09-01 09:36:54) |
 | At least 246 tourists remain stranded on an island in east China's Zhejiang Province Tuesday as tropical storms and a typhoon cut off ship ferrying services Monday, local authorities said.
The tourists, including six Russians and 26 students, have to stay in hotels in Nanji Island, a popular tourist destination in Wenzhou City of Zhejiang, after local transport authorities suspended ship services Monday due to strong gales triggered by two approaching tropical storms and typhoon Kompa ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 09:28:29) |
| China has cracked 278,000 criminal cases and broken up nearly 1,650 mafia-style gangs since it launched a campaign to maintain public security in rural-urban fringe zones and on campuses in January.
About 256,000 suspects had been arrested as of Tuesday, according to a national working group on maintaining public security composed of officials from government agencies, including the Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Minist ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 09:27:25) |
 | North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam on Wednesday during a meeting in Pyongyang with a Chinese military delegation pledged to make ''unremitting'' efforts to strengthen military ties between the two countries, China's Xinhua News Agency reported. Just days after the conclusion of a secretive visit to China by the North Korea's leader, Kim, who is president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, met with military commander Zhang Youxia, who was heading a delegation from the... (Kyodo News, 2010-09-01 09:10:05) |
| A Hong Kong man on Wednesday pleaded guilty at a Hong Kong district court to trafficking eight stolen watches from a Japanese department store last year. Lee Kui-man, 47, was charged with handling stolen goods after he was arrested at a border checkpoint on route to mainland China in January with nine stolen Rolex watches. Of them eight were later confirmed missing from the Daimaru Kobe department store in June last year. (Kyodo News, 2010-09-01 09:10:05) |
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&$Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meets with Donald Tsang Yam-Kuen, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in Moscow, capital of Russia, Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua)&$&$ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Donald Tsang Yan-Kuen voiced their support here on Tuesday for the develo ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:27:49) |
 | Hong Kong officials say a minimum wage level has been agreed, but wrangling between employers and unions continues. (BBC NEWS, 2010-09-01 08:25:05) |
| The number of criminals convicted of human trafficking has risen sharply in the first seven months of this year, the country's top court said on Tuesday.
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Family members of a kidnapped boy cannot hold back their tears after their child is rescued by police and comes home to Du'an Yao autonomous county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Aug 4. [Mo Xiantao / Xinhua]
The ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:24:36) |
| The online voting for the "Wang Hai Cup Chinese Entrepreneur Award for Outstanding Contribution" will be launched on Sept. 6. The public can visit the official online voting platform built by People's Daily Online and vote for candidates that they think best represent Chinese entrepreneurship.
As part of the 2010 International Chinese Business Festival to be held in Shangqiu, the selection aims to recognize Chinese entrepreneurs who have made outstanding contributions to China's economic... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:22:06) |
| China's banking regulator will strictly implement the central government's macroeconomic policies that aim to curb soaring housing prices, an official said Tuesday.
Ye Yanfei, deputy head of the Statistics Department of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), said the CBRC will restrain speculative property investment and support the building of affordable housing while controlling risk.
China's housing market and lending to the property sector are crucial to the nation ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:20:11) |
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&$China's special envoy for Korean peninsula affairs Wu Dawei (R front) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)&$&$
Visiting China's special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei said Tuesday that Beijing plans to put forward fresh measures to resume the stalled six-party talks at an e ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:14:29) |
| China and Japan need to continue candid exchanges to smooth over thorny security and diplomatic issues and achieve mutual understanding.
This was the consensus from the two countries' political and security opinion leaders during the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, which ended Tuesday.
"Long-term cooperation and friendship is the only choice for both countries" against the backdrop of a globalized world, Yuji Miyamoto, former Japanese ambassador to China, said in a keynote speech at the... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:13:35) |
| One typhoon and two tropical storms are forecast to land or brush past East and South China coasts on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The converging forces will bring heavy rain to the region as they move further northwest.
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&$ A woman struggles against the wind and rain in advance of tropical storm Namtheum on Tuesday in Shatian town in East China's Fujian province. [Wei Peiquan / Xinhua]&$ (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:12:35) |
| Mobile phone customers will have to present ID when purchasing a phone number from Wednesday, in the latest campaign by the government to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones.
Foreigners will also need to register with their passports or other ID in order to subscribe to mobile phone carriers.
Also from Wednesday, street newspaper stands will be banned from selling SIM cards, the Beijing Evening News reported.
The report sai ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:10:59) |
| U.S. Commerce Department announced on Tuesday its decision not to initiate investigation on allegations that China's currency practices constitute an unfair subsidy.
The currency allegations under review were made in the context of countervailing duties (CVD) investigations of two Chinese products — aluminum extrusions and coated paper.
"Two allegations before it that China's currency practices constitute an unfair subsidy under U.S. countervailing duty law failed to meet the ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-01 08:08:39) |
 | Guangdong-based underwear company Jealousy International has been selling their Diana brand of underwear for years now. But to commemorate the anniversary of Princess Diana's death, they rolled out a new ad campaign featuring a half-naked Diana doppleganger playing a cello. Unfortunately, a British citizen was right there to capture it. And then he told the Daily Mail about it: A British journalist who happened to see the images this morning was appalled. Sam Chambers said: 'I was just... (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-01 08:00:00) |
 | TYPHOON Kompasu skirted Shanghai this morning and headed north, left the city a peaceful sky after some showers before daybreak today.
It was forcasted that the typhoon would slam into Shanghai for the first time... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-09-01 07:45:13) |
| While today has been delightfully not typhooning so far (cross our fingers, knock on wood), apparently scares about Typhoon Kompasu coming to town actually closed all Shanghai schools on the day they were supposed to start. So yay! One extra day of summer vacation for all! School will start up tomorrow, but I wonder when the typhoon will actually hit. (Shanghaiist, 2010-09-01 07:30:00) |
 | NEC Corp said Tuesday it has agreed with major Chinese information technology firm Neusoft Corp to jointly offer a wide range of cloud computing services… (Japan Today, 2010-09-01 06:58:00) |
| A typhoon hit the northern part of the Okinawa Prefecture's main island around 5 p.m. on Tuesday and is moving northwest in the East China… (Japan Today, 2010-09-01 06:30:00) |
 | China's manufacturing activity expanded for the 18th straight month in August and accelerated from July, an official gauge showed Wednesday, which could ease concerns about China's economic momentum at a time of weakening global growth. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-01 04:28:25) |
 | The Middle Kingdom may not yet have a Glastonbury or V Festival, but Archie Hamilton's company Splitworks is doing its best to promote a fledgling live music scene. (telegraph.co.uk, 2010-09-01 00:48:00) |
| Increasingly, America finds itself aligned with its old adversary in order to offset China's assertion of regional hegemony The presence of the USS George Washington, a nuclear supercarrier, off Vietnam earlier this month signalled a deepening rapprochement between two former enemies in the face of an increasingly assertive China. Coming 35 years after the end of the Vietnam war, the visit officially marked the 15th anniversary of normalisation of relations between the US and Vietnam. A group... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-09-01 00:32:00) |
| The US government decides to drop an investigation of China's currency policy, avoiding a possible trade dispute. (BBC NEWS, 2010-08-31 23:48:39) |
Visiting Chinese special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei sounded out Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in a Tuesday meeting on the possibility of soon restarting the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea. Wu, who visited both North and South Korea before his trip to Japan, said he was eager to exchange views on the peninsula with the minister. (Japan Times, 2010-08-31 22:31:00) | |
 | (BEIJING) Three numbers should suffice to give Chinese economic policymakers a sleepless night: 65.4 million, US$28.7 billion and US$2.45 trillion. (Business Times, 2010-08-31 22:30:00) |
| (SHANGHAI) The yuan closed down against the dollar yesterday and notched its biggest monthly loss since its landmark July 2005 revaluation as the People's Bank of China set a surprisingly low mid-point, signalling its determination to halt the yuan's appreciation after its depegging in mid-June. (Business Times, 2010-08-31 22:30:00) |
| (BEIJING) The Chinese government will give its state-run unions more power to negotiate pay claims and seek to ensure union leaders are not just installed by their firms as proxies of management, state media said yesterday. (Business Times, 2010-08-31 22:30:00) |
| (BEIJING) China upheld a preliminary ruling in April that said broiler chicken products imported from the US were subsidised, and imposed five-year punitive tariffs to replace temporary levies. (Business Times, 2010-08-31 22:30:00) |
| (TAIPEI) Bailed-out insurer American International Group (AIG) faces the prospect of looking for another buyer for its Taiwan unit after regulators yesterday threw out its proposed US$2.2 billion sale of Nan Shan Life to a Chinese company. (Business Times, 2010-08-31 22:30:00) |
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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