After South African dock workers refused to unload a Chinese weapons shipment bound for Zimbabwe, the ship may be headed back to China, according to AP:The Chinese freighter arrived in South Africa last week, and human rights groups and others
From BBC News:Chinese officials have rejected claims by US authorities that Chinese imports are to blame for deaths among users of the blood-thinning drug heparin.The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a contaminant sourced to a Chinese factory has
160 lawmakers in Japan prayed in Yasukuni Shrine, which has considered to be hypersensitive for Sino-Japan relations. Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was not among the visitors. Thus, the bottom is not toughed yet. Still, how Chinese leaders will response
The recent anti-France (Carrefour) protests are still spreading within China, and the Chinese cyberspace is flooded with angry "patriotic" messages. But this is not the only voice being expressed online. The following images have been circulated in many online forums
While hundreds of thousands of Chinese rushed to boycott Carrefour, a French supermarket chain which was accused to be funding the Dalai Lama, Han Han, an influential writer among China's younger generation, wrote an article on his blog to object
When Google launched it OpenSocial plan in last year, Tianji.com is the only one from China on the partners list. But we did not hear any news on Tianji's OpenSocial development. Now CityIn.com , an emerging SNS , announced its
BEIJING-An ethnic Mongolian jailed in China for separatism and spying says he is being regularly tortured in prison for a crime he did not commit, according to a letter pleading his case wit...
HONG KONG-Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China's number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong news...
Jane Macartney reports in the Times:From civil servants to yak herders, barley farmers and street traders, the residents of the Tibetan capital and surrounding countryside are being subjected to a two-month re-education campaign to combat anti-Chinese sentiment.Under the latest drive
I came across a blog post by James McMullen back on February 16: China Is a Budding Business' Best Friend. I saved it. I intended to comment here on it, but I just never got around to it. Then a
Former Shanghai Communist Party Chief Chen Liangyu has chosen not to file an appeal to overturn his conviction for bribery and abuse of power. The deadline for an appeal was Monday, and Chen did not raise a plea for retrial.
In those days, Tibet's local doctrines made religious belief totally compulsory; while nowadays China's legislations ensure complete freedom of religious belief for all individuals," said Professor Sherab Nyima, the Vice President of China ...
The 103rd China Import and Export Fair, the largest yet, recorded 25.43 billion U.S. dollars worth of export deals during its first session, which ended on Sunday. That was a rise of 1.8 percent from the previous session of the
At present, the growth of China's milk production occupies more than half of the world's milk production. China has become the world's third largest milk producing country. In 2007, there were 14.7 million milch cows in China, up 7.8 percen
Prices indices of fixed-asset investment rose 8.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This NBS report represents for the first time that fixed-asset investment prices indices were ...
Net profit for China Pacific Insurance, the nation's third-largest insurer, rose 33.9 percent year-on-year to 1.79 billion yuan (about 256 million U.S. dollars) during the first quarter, the company announced on Tuesday. The company ...
The northern parts of Anhui Province, east China, have been inundated with rain since Saturday and more than 240,000 residents have been affected, local officials said. Suzhou, Bengbu and Fuyang, all north of the Huaihe River, a flo ...
Chinese shares opened lower on Tuesday morning. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, opened at 3,076.72 points, down 1.29 percent or 40.26 points. The Shenzhen Component Index on the Shen ...
First-quarter losses by China's mutual funds soared, with 346 funds managed by 58 companies losing 647.5 billion yuan (92.5 billion U.S. dollars), eight times the amount of the previous quarter, according to TX Investment Consulting. ...
On April 21, China First Heavy Industries (CFHI) and China Petroleum Technology & Development Corporation (CPTDC) jointly completed two large-scale forge welding hydrogenation reactors; and they have been shipped from port in Dalian to the ...
