More than a century and a half after Millard Fillmore dispatched an emissary to Asia to transform commerce across the Pacific, a U.S. president again sees an historic opportunity to strengthen America’s role in the region. Barack Obama sent his secretary of state,… Read More ›
Environmental experts say real-time air quality updates mandated to start in 74 mainland cities on New Year’s Day will leave local officials less room to manipulate data and hide the country’s worsening pollution problem. They said hourly readings – already… Read More ›
Cambodia’s first oil refinery will break ground early next year and, once completed, will refine an estimated 5 million tons of oil per year. Two state-enterprises signed an agreement on the USD2.3-billion refinery in Kampot province: Sinomach China Perfect Machinery… Read More ›
About half of the bribes taken by a former top railways executive came from other state-owned railway companies, prosecutors have said, painting a damning portrait of rampant corruption in the sector. During the trial of former China Railway Container Transport… Read More ›
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to promote security cooperation with Australia and India, based on the strength of the Japan-US alliance, in a bid to counter China‘s efforts to extend its influence. Abe also believes strengthening ties with Russia… Read More ›
China‘s economic boom has seen its coral reefs shrink by at least 80 per cent over the past 30 years, a joint Australian study found yesterday, with researchers describing “grim” levels of damage and loss. Scientists from the Australian Research… Read More ›
One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back. At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake. But when… Read More ›
It was supposed to be a momentous year – a major leadership change on the centenary of the last emperor’s abdication. But 2012 turned out to be a mess for China. It squabbled with neighbours on a seemingly unceasing series… Read More ›
That’s not to say someone won’t try. And the obvious country in question is China, of course. One non-factor is the growing number of Americans living within Taiwan. Based on Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency, in 2009, Americans made up approximately… Read More ›
A study shows how descendants of eight party founding fathers are multibillion-dollar players at the forefront of the country’s ‘red aristocracy’. An exposé yesterday of the huge business interests and personal assets of the descendants of eight dead Communist Party… Read More ›
The Chinese have become largely inured to tales of voracious officials stockpiling luxury apartments, $30,000 Swiss watches or enough stolen cash to buy their mistress a Porsche. “Something has shifted,” Zhu Ruifeng, a Beijing journalist who has exposed more than… Read More ›
A blueprint of China’s future defence framework was outlined by outgoing President Hu Jintao in his report delivered to the 18th Communist Party of China Congress last November. It called for the creation of a national defence and armed forces… Read More ›
New legislation governing the internet, which officials claim is aimed at combating online vigilantes and privacy breaches, is proving controversial on the mainland because it will require bloggers and bulletin board users to register using their real names. Many internet… Read More ›
China is currently pursuing a very ambitious commercial aircraft development program, including two medium-size airliners. However, it faces considerable – perhaps even insurmountable – barriers to breaking into this tough and demanding business. No one can ever accuse China of… Read More ›
Chinese officials will this week discuss improving compensation for farmers whose land is expropriated, state media said on Monday, a move designed to try to quell growing rural anger over forced land seizures. Some academics have urged the government to… Read More ›
Washington has issued a blistering attack on China for persistent breaches of world trade rules and abuse of industrial secrets, accusing Beijing of failing to abide by treaty obligations. China is still flouting World Trade Organisation rules 11 years after… Read More ›
Cuban president Raul Castro and Russian president Vladimir Putin may not have much in common, but Xi Jinping seems to take inspiration from them both. This can be seen in the president-in-waiting’s effective measures to curb extravagance and over-the-top protocol… Read More ›
China’s top two leaders have revealed photographs and details of their families, breaking a long-held taboo where such information is considered a state secret. In a surprise move, clearly for boosting their public support, the official Xinhua news agency released… Read More ›
China‘s overall R&D is a little more than half that of U.S. and growing rapidly; U.S. is stalling. It was a ghost who revealed to Ebenezer Scrooge the “shadows of what may be,” but today we rely on studies for… Read More ›
Spells on the Xi Jinping Administration – A Japanese Analysis In the aftermath of the anti-Japanese riots, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held to set up the Xi Jinping administration. Before discussing its economic policy,… Read More ›
China released a series of figures on Sunday showing continued economic strength as it prepares for new leaders tasked with sustaining the country’s dramatic growth. There was a double-digit increase in production at factories, workshops and mines for the first… Read More ›
China continued its hard line on its claim to disputed islands in the East China Sea, threatening Japan with more retaliation and talk of war in an editorial in Monday’s Global Times, an influential daily tabloid under the auspices of the state-controlled People’s… Read More ›
Not so long after the Chinese government persecuted Christians, sometimes violently, its largest media outlet is boasting that Christmas would not be possible without China. The state-run People’s Daily on Monday announces, “American fellows, it is Christmas time, a time… Read More ›
China will give farmers better protection over the land they till, raise their incomes and improve public services for them to help close the gap with urban areas and narrow the rich-poor divide. The government will ensure farmers earn “reasonable returns”… Read More ›
Real estate agents in provinces such as Guangdong and Jiangsu have been frantically trying to push deals for a torrent of second-hand flats suddenly released on the market – many of which belong to government officials, the Oriental Morning Post… Read More ›
China tested its 2,298-kilometer (1,428-mile) high-speed rail line, the longest in the world, as it prepares to start passenger service in two days. Bullet-trains on the line from Beijing to southern Chinese city of Guangzhou can run at an average speed… Read More ›
The U.S. Congress has approved a defence policy bill for fiscal 2013, which reconfirmed the Senkaku Islands are subject to Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. security treaty obliging the United States to defend Japan in case of hostilities. The Senate… Read More ›
An anti-graft official in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou called on government and Communist Party officials to be faithful to their spouses after a slew of local scandals, the China Daily reported today. Mei Heqing, a standing member of the communist… Read More ›
Beijing will look to boost farmers’ income, protect their land rights and seek more equitable treatment for migrant workers in cities, reports from the annual rural work conference said yesterday. Agriculture Minister Han Changfu told the two-day Central Rural Work… Read More ›
Caterpillar Inc, Komatsu Ltd and other construction-equipment makers have built enough capacity in China to satisfy global demand twice over while sales in the country are falling, according to a research company. Manufacturing capacity in China is almost 600,000 excavators a… Read More ›
Japan‘s next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to send senior ruling party member Masahiko Koumura as an envoy to China as early as next month in a bid to repair ties between Asia’s two largest economies, the Nikkei business… Read More ›
When Hu Bin started his blog in early 2008, he was a skinny 22-year-old college dropout with a perpetually sceptical look on his face and little doubt he’d soon be a household name. The previous year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had been… Read More ›
According to Kyoto News, Japan’s Ministry of Defence published a piece of news on December 22 that at noon that day, an aircraft under China’s State Oceanic Administration was found 100 km away from the Diaoyu Island (called Senkau by… Read More ›
Police in China have carried out further arrests of members of a doomsday cult for spreading rumours about the imminent end of the world, state media say. Almost 1,000 members of Christian group Almighty God have now been detained. State… Read More ›
A new man has been appointed by Beijing to take charge of Hong Kong, a task that would require savvy in walking the tightrope between controlling what Beijing perceives as an increasingly wayward ward and yet not tipping it over… Read More ›
Chinese internet users who are skilled at evading the country’s online blocks have suddenly found they are again being denied access to some websites. In China, if you want access to forbidden websites including Facebook or Twitter, one of the… Read More ›
Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily meted out harshly worded front-page editorials about internet regulation on Friday, Thursday and Tuesday this week, a move that might signal the party’s new campaign to impose further controls on the nation’s already… Read More ›
In one day, two acts of violence: but one ended very differently from the other. Just hours before the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, a stabbing spree took place at a primary school in Chengping, Henan, a… Read More ›
Land seizures, pollution and labour disputes have been the three main causes of tens of thousands of mass protests in recent years, according to a top think-tank. In its 2013 Social Development Blue Book, released on Tuesday, the Chinese Academy… Read More ›
The health risks of microscopic air pollutants have been grossly underestimated on the mainland, with nearly 8,600 premature deaths expected this year in four major cities, a study has revealed. And premature deaths are “just a tiny fraction” of the… Read More ›
On the Tatay River, up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame… Read More ›
Economist Wu Jinglian, one of the mainland’s best-known advocates of market reform, warned yesterday that excess domestic money supply was creating an increasingly unsustainable asset bubble. Wu, a senior research fellow at the State Council’s Development Research Centre, said the… Read More ›
It’s a very difficult winter for the toy industry in Guangdong province. You could say it is an extremely harsh winter, if such occurred in the southern province of China. But more than 50% of all Chinese toy factories are… Read More ›
To avoid tensions over sea claims, China needs a national security council The growing tension in East Asia over China’s aggressive claims to the region’s oil-rich waters – now delineated on maps in Chinese passports – may suggest a meticulously… Read More ›
General Motors, the largest foreign automaker in China, will increase the number of Cadillac dealerships in the country by about 25 percent as it competes against German luxury automakers led by Volkswagen AG’s Audi. The Detroit-based company will add about 40 dealers… Read More ›
The majority of applicants for the EB-5 visa come from Asia, over 80 percent according to a Government Accountability Office report from 2005. Those investors come from China, South Korea, and Taiwan among others. Most recent numbers indicate that 75… Read More ›
Provincial level authorities in China have announced that they have arrested 93 people for spreading rumours of the impeding – Mayan predicted – apocalypse, Xinhua has reported. The authorities state that 37 of these arrests have been linked to the… Read More ›
More than 150,000 mainlanders obtained overseas citizenship last year, making China the world’s biggest source of immigrants, a report released this week says. Many were wealthy and highly educated and had left in search of a more democratic society, a… Read More ›
In the latest development of the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, Japan scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese Military Surveillance plane entered the airspace around the disputed islands. Japan considers this the first violation of Japanese airspace since Japan started… Read More ›
In winter 2001, a group of Chinese visited my school, the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Their goal was to learn about America. I was invited on the strict agreement that I would say nothing inciting. So, being my natural,… Read More ›
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