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During a speech delivered from the same podium where Donald H. Rumsfeld said in 2005 that China’s growing arsenal of ships, missiles and submarines threatened Asia’s security balance, [Robert M.] Gates steered away from a direct challenge to China about its military modernization and said he was hopeful about future dealings between the countries.
Students at Xiamen University were told to avoid the protest, but bloggers, photographers and citizen journalists recorded all the action.
[An official] said yesterday in Beijing that at least 99% of food exports from China headed to the U.S. between 2004 and last year passed inspection.
China's defense came a day after the Food and Drug Administration cited a pair of American companies for adding a potentially dangerous chemical -- melamine -- to animal-feed ingredients.
China will release a long-awaited “action plan” on climate change ahead of next week’s Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting in Germany as it seeks to mount a more aggressive international defence of its environmental policies.
Also see this video on Youtube: Fiction Pyongyang
The World Bank raised its forecast for China's economic growth this year to 10.4% from 9.6% on strong first-quarter growth but it added that the nation's economy doesn't appear to be overheating.
Several months ago, Chinese clothing executive Shao Zhuliang got bad news from his U.S. agent: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., his biggest customer, wouldn't be placing any orders for the spring 2008 season...
China and India are both planning to launch moon shots within a year in the latest sign of the two Asian powerhouses’ intensifying rivalry and growing technological prowess.
Although both countries deny they are engaged in a 21st century re-run of the 1960s race to the moon between the cold war superpowers, their haste to launch suggests more than casual interest in the other’s progress.
Beijing's Internet watchdog has accused 12 dating websites of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act by next Friday.
'The outrageous pimping content in some websites is very shocking,' said a statement of the Beijing Online News and Information Panel, an Internet watchdog made up by government officials, experts and representatives of netizens.
The 12 dating websites are loaded with detailed information on the sex trade, including 'service items, pricing and contact information,' said the statement.
(Thanks to Shaan Kahn for the link)
A fortnight ago, news came of the proposed demolition of Dongsi Ba Tiao, a hutong north east of the Forbidden City and supposedly situated in one of Beijing’s 25 protected areas. The Chinese media was quick to rip into the decision with the Beijing News leading the charge and the China Daily backing it up in English.
The number of share trading accounts established in China now exceeds 100m as the country’s retail investors continue to ignore warnings about the risks of a stock market bubble and continue to put new money into the market.
The surge in the interest to buy shares among China’s population has accelerated over the past few days, with 385,000 new accounts being opened on Monday alone, taking the total to 100.27m, according to China Securities Depositary and Clearing Corporation. In the previous week, around 1.5m new accounts were opened.
China's leaders are probably more insecure than they need to be because they don't have very accurate information about what the public actually thinks about them. The CCP has proved itself surprisingly resilient and is effectively co-opting college students and private businesspeople. But on the other hand, there are plenty of examples of authoritarian regimes that were toppled almost overnight thanks to cell phones and the Internet.
[Turning away from Lei Feng, Chinese people today] look instead to people such as Lin Yuan, a jovial, plain-looking man referred to as the 'Warren Buffett of China' and revered for supposedly turning a paltry Rmb8,000 into a fortune exceeding Rmb1bn ($130m) during 18 years of stock investing.
First, the tide of democracy is vast and mighty, and no one can block it.
Chinese police have arrested a corpse trader who killed six women so he could sell their bodies for superstitious 'weddings of the dead'.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has asked local governments at all levels to ensure the supply of pork and maintain market order amid rising concerns over soaring pork price...
...According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in April live pigs nationwide were priced 71.3 percent higher than a month earlier, and pork, 29.3 percent higher, largely due to tightened supply.
