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Last Update: Fri Jun 19 22:56:21 2009 | | + Francesco Sisci: The Yuan Lies in Waiting +
From Asia Times:
Pundits in China are scratching their heads over the future of their currency, the yuan, which has been brought to [...] Their thinking has recently become urgent, compared with previous perceptions that the yuan could be kept not fully convertible - ... |
| + A Robust Response +
From the Beijing Review, via alibaba.com:
With new A/H1N1 flu cases spreading around the world every day, criticism over China's [...] But leaders acknowledged the country is not in the clear yet. The arduous challenges of developing vaccines and preventing any ... |
| + The Six Why’s (六个为什么) +
China Media Project translates a new initiative by the Hu Jintao administration to answer everyone's nagging questions about China's [...] “Six Why’s.” That’s right, Hu Jintao and his army of CCP theorists have worked out a simple political primer for us all, ... |
| + Dams On China’s Yellow River Near Collapse +
From AFP:
Several dams on China's mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns [...] has said.
Shoddy construction, unqualified workers and embezzlement of funds are threatening dams' safety in the northwestern ... |
| + Chinese TV Employees Suspended For Tiananmen Broadcast +
From Reuters:
Several staff at a Chinese television station were suspended from their jobs after footage of the 1989 Tiananmen [...] group said on Friday.
Chinese media outlets are barred from mentioning the crackdown around Beijing's Tiananmen Square that ... |
| + China Permits First IPO Since September; Brokers Gain +
From Bloomberg:
China approved its first initial public offering since September, triggering gains in brokerage shares on [...] by market value, and second-ranked Haitong Securities Co. advanced in Shanghai trading after Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical ... |
| + China Orders Google to Suspend Some Search Services +
From Wall Street Journal:
Chinese regulators have ordered Google Inc. to suspend search services for foreign Web sites via its [...] the company was warned over the pornographic content available through its search engine.
It wasn't immediately clear if the ... |
| + Tehran’s Tiananmen Square? +
As protests escalate in Iran, voices in the international media are comparing the scene there to China in 1989 and wondering if Iran [...] York Times, Nicholas Kristof worries about government efforts to block websites and to expel foreign journalists:
The push to ... |
| + New Details for Earning Shanghai Residence Permits +
From Shanghai Daily:
The Shanghai government released details of its three-year trial plan to make it easier for people from outside [...] a news briefing yesterday.
The first batch of applicants who meet the requirements only amount to about 3,000 as they must have ... |
| + Southern Metropolis Daily Interviews Deng Yujiao +
Roland Soong of ESWN translates an interview from the Southern Metropolis Daily with Deng Yujiao, the waitress who went on trial for [...] Recently, Deng was charged with causing intentional harm, though she ultimately walked free.
Reporter: How are you feeling ... |
| + Children Forced into Pickpocket Gang Return Home +
From Xinhua:
Police said 20 children who had been abducted and forced into pickpocket gangs in southern China, where some had been [...] Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday.
[...]The kidnappers, who have been detained by police, confessed that they promised jobs to ... |
| + Headlights at Noon, Yet Officials Give All-Clear on Beijing Smog +
Jonathan Watts posts to the Environment Blog at the Guardian:
The need for a new air pollution index in Beijing was gloomily apparent [...] capital was just short of enjoying a "blue sky" day.
[...]The independent monitoring station BeijingAir reported a peak in ... |
| + Flaws in China’s Digital Dissidents +
Alice Liu writes her opinion for Asia Times:
Despite having a reputation in the West as trailblazing citizen journalists, [...] showy and self-serving. Most come from the "me generation", a derisive term for youths born after the nation ... |
| + New Dinosaur Gives Bird Wing Clue +
A new fossil discovered in northwest China's Junggar Basin may be a key link in how modern-day birds evolved from ancient dinosaurs. [...] China has shed light on the evolution from dinosaur hands to the wing bones in today's birds.
The fossil, from about 160 ... |
| + China Holds Firm on Software Filter, U.S. Firms Say +
Despite earlier reports that the government had responded to widespread outrage over the Green Dam software by making its installation [...] in fact there has been no apparent change in policy:
Four trade groups based in the United States have sent a statement to ... |
| + Chinese Upper Class Growing +
From China Daily:
More than half of nearly 800 wealthy Chinese recently polled believe the widening gap between the rich and poor [...]
The survey, carried out by lifestyle magazine Best Life, interviewed 792 rich Chinese in 62 cities from 27 provinces through ... |
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