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 | North Korea leader Kim Jong-il confirmed his readiness to rejoin six-party talks after a visit to China last week. But the US, Japan, and South Korea want to see key steps first. (Christian Science Monitor, 2010-08-31 14:47:04) |
 | Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that better education is essential to a powerful China, repeating the central authorities' call to prioritize education reform and development.
"For a country as populous as China, education must be given an even more prominent role. Building a first-class country demands first-class education and top-tier talent," Wen said.
Wen made the remarks in a speech at a high-profile meeting of the central authorities on education last month, accordin ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 14:45:34) |
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&$Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Liu Jianchao(1st R) and other Philippine and Chinese government officials and people from various sectors attend a mass mourning for the killed Hong Kong hostages at the Quirino Grandstand, Manila, capital of the Philippines, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Xinhua/Jon Fabrigar)&$&$ More than 4,000 people attended a memorial service held here Tuesday for the ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 14:44:44) |
| Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said great cooperation potential should serve as the cornerstone of the Ukraine-China strategic partnership.
The most promising areas for bilateral cooperation include infrastructure, trade and investment, aviation, railway transportation, energy, tourism, cultural exchange and education, Yanukovych said in a recent interview with Chinese mainstream media.
Yanukovych, who will pay a state visit to China from Sept. 2 to 5, said he expects th ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 14:43:59) |
| The Secretary for Transport and Housing of Hong Kong Eva Cheng Tuesday left Hong Kong for a three- day duty trip to two major European cities, London and Brussels, according to local government website.
Cheng will first visit London where she will meet the British Secretary of State for Transport and Department for Transport officials to exchange views on high speed rail development.
She will also visit a number of high speed rail stations in both cities.
During her stay ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 14:43:29) |
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Heavy clouds are seen over the Fuzhou City, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 31, 2010. This year's eighth tropical storm is approaching the coastal areas of Fujian, according to the provincial weather station. (Xinhua/Zhang Guojun)&$
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 | THE veteran pseudo science debunker Fang Zhouzi, who was attacked by two thugs late Sunday, said behind the attacks were those he has exposes.
Fang said at a press conference on Monday that the attack was by... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 14:18:14) |
 | North Korea - Asia - United States - Weapons - Warfare and Conflict (Washington Post, 2010-08-31 14:12:00) |
| A woman in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was diagnosed with rapid muscle breakdown after she ate crayfish, following an outbreak of 19 such cases in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, last week.
The 55-year-old woman... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 14:07:46) |
 | A prospective schoolteacher says he was illegally denied a job because he is HIV positive. (International Herald Tribune, 2010-08-31 13:40:35) |
| China had a total of 108 million online buyers in 2009, with an annual growth rate of nearly 46 percent and the usage rate of online shopping reached 28 percent, according to a report about China's electronic commerce from 2008 to 2009 released on Aug. 30.
Jiang Yaoping, the vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said that online shopping has become a major consumption trend among Chinese people.
China's online shopping scale has increased to 258.6 billion yuan (about 38 billion U.S.... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 13:39:19) |
 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told Chinese President Hu Jintao in May that the Workers' Party of Korea was building a system to hand over power to third son and heir apparent Jong Un, sources familiar with China-North Korea relations said Tuesday. During the talks in Beijing, Kim and Hu informed each other of the situation in their countries, and Kim said the succession process was proceeding according to a prearranged plan, the sources said. (Kyodo News, 2010-08-31 13:10:10) |
 | A Chinese court for the first time accepts a case from a man alleging employment discrimination because he has HIV, state media says. (BBC NEWS, 2010-08-31 12:57:51) |
 | Hontex International Holdings Co. said it plans to compensate investors after its audit committee found that statements in the company's IPO prospectus are unreliable. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-31 12:20:34) |
| China will continue to relax restrictions on the use of the yuan, but those changes won't resolve China's massive trade imbalance with the U.S., the central bank's deputy governor said. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-08-31 12:10:19) |
 | Last month, we asked you guys to submitmovies to the Italian Pavilion's My Expo Movie contest and possibly send your submissions our way too. Now someone has done so - and just in time for Vimeo to go back behind the GFW. Boo. Well, I suggest you either get a vpn and watch this anyhow. The movie is made by Joe Nafis, whose great timelapse videos we've featured before. Love timelapse as much as we do? Here's a couple more of other pavilions by other people. (Shanghaiist, 2010-08-31 12:00:04) |
| A HONG KONG truck driver was indicted today in Shenzhen for intentional homicide after he allegedly dragged a three-month-old baby to death in a hit-and-run accident.
Leung Koon-biu, 32, denied the manslaughter... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 11:52:20) |
| A MAN in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region who was wrongly jailed for almost nine years for a murder he didn't commit will receive 890,000 yuan (US$129,800) in compensation from the local government.
Ten days... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 11:50:38) |
| CHILDREN enrolled in local kindergartens, primary and middle schools, and international schools can take part in Shanghai Children's Hospitalization Mutual Fund, which covers a large share of medical expenses in the... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 11:31:56) |
| Update on Shanghai's smoking crackdown: It took three months for the smoking ban to nab one establishment. Now, according to Xinmin, that number has risen to 66 as of June 30. Another 1,345 were given a warning. Unfortunately, that's hardly... well, anything. There's probably 66 stores in one section of a street here in Shanghai. But officials insist that the overall smoking rate in the city has gone down. Stats collected by their team of anti-smoke regulating volunteers found that the smoking... (Shanghaiist, 2010-08-31 11:15:00) |
| AN entertainment venue was ordered to compensate the family of a victim killed when one of its employees was moving a car backward for parking, the Songjiang People's Court said today.
The employee, surnamed Zhang,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 11:11:48) |
 | North Korea news agency hints Kim Jong-il will use Workers party assembly to confirm third son, Kim Jong-un, as next leader North Korea's state news agency heightened speculation that Kim Jong-il is preparing to anoint his youngest son as his heir as it confirmed the leader's five day visit to China. Its reporting on the trip quoted repeated references to the next generation of leaders and described Kim's visits to sites associated with his father Kim Il-sung, the North's founder. The... (Guardian Unlimited, 2010-08-31 11:04:59) |
| CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao has said that better education is essential to a powerful China, repeating the central authorities' call to prioritize education reform and development.
"For a country as populous as China,... (Shanghai Daily, 2010-08-31 10:59:22) |
 | Nepalese police have detained two Tibetan activists posting "anti-Beijing leaflets" ahead of a planned protest against Chinese rule of their homeland, according to a media report (Phayul, 2010-08-31 10:58:00) |
| The British Council and English National Ballet have cancelled a planned performance of a new ballet because the composer dedicated the score to the people of Tibe (Phayul, 2010-08-31 09:27:00) |
| A survey to judge the international image of Chinese cities was released in Shanghai on Monday, with the financial hub scoring the highest among all the 30 cities that were tested.
The survey, co-conducted by Gallup Consulting, a global consultancy, was launched in April via an online questionnaire circulated among foreigners living in the Chinese mainland and abroad.
A total of 7,980 foreigners took part in the survey.
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&$An alert 8-year-old student, surnamed Ma, at Bulenggou primary school in Dongxiang county, Gansu province, in this file photo taken Aug 5. (Photo: China Daily)&$&$Teachers in rural China face major challenges in keeping students in the classroom with many teenagers now choosing to quit school to live as migrant workers.
Although poverty used to be the main reason for dropping ... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 09:12:54) |
| Families and relatives of the Aug. 24 plane crash victims will receive 960,000 yuan in compensation for each death, Henan Airlines said Monday.
The compensation, about 141,094 U.S. dollars, conforms with China's civil aviation regulations, the company said.
A Brazilian-made Henan Airlines jet carrying 96 people crashed in Yichun, a remote, mountainous city in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province last Tuesday. Forty-two of the people aboard the flight died.
It was the... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 09:11:37) |
| More than 170 tourists were stranded in east China's Zhejiang Province Monday as tropical storm Kompasu approached, local police authorities said.
The tourists, including six Russians, had to stay in Nanji Island of Wenzhou City as Kompasu triggered strong winds on the sea, cutting off ship services linking Nanji to the mainland.
The tourists, mainly from Zhejiang regions, arrived on the island Friday for sightseeing and had planned to return to the mainland to go home.
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| The 6th annual Tokyo-Beijing Forum, under the theme of "Asia's future: Japan, China's contribution", was held Monday in Tokyo to promote understanding and strengthen ties between the two nations.
Present at the forum include Wang Chen, director of China's State Council Information Office, Li Zhaoxing, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of China's National People's Congress and Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku and former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuoda.
"To... (People's Daily, 2010-08-31 09:04:11) |
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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