From Los Angeles Times: The image of a catastrophic natural disaster that humbled a powerful leader may have stalked Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he made rapid-fire visits last week to areas devastated by snowstorms, but it probably wasn't Hurricane
After painstaking endeavors, the main north-south highway reopened in China, but heavy fog weather in southern part of China still added heavy workload and difficulties on transportations. From AP via International Herald Tribune : China's main north-south national highway reopened
From Sky News : The International Olympic Committee has been accused of breaking a promise to push China for greater media freedom ahead of the Beijing Games. China is the "world's leading jailer of journalists" with 29 writers and reporters
Howard French reports in the New York Times on the growing and creative forms of resistance by Internet users to censorship: For a vast majority of Internet users, censorship still does not appear to be much of a factor. The
China Media Project translates an op-ed from the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily which argues that China needs more input from civil society groups to effectively deal with crises like the current snow emergency: But there are nevertheless regrettable aspects of this
From BBC: Chinese weather experts have admitted that they were not properly prepared for the snow storms that have left hundreds of thousands stranded. The cold weather seen in recent weeks has been the worst to hit central and southern
Dongzhimen and Xizhmen, both transfer stations, and Datun, the site of the Olympics village, have commenced the checks, official Xinhua news agency said. "This is a trial. We plan to have all the 90 stations equipped with security checking facilities
According to Chinabyte.com, Chinese e-commerce service provider Alibaba will spend several hundred million dollars to seek cooperation with well-known international venture capitalists to help Alisoft's partners solve fund shortages and even help them get listed in Asia or overseas.
Chinese communications equipment manufacturer Huawei will provide high capacity and bandwidth solutions to Saudi Arabian mobile operator Mobily to support the latter's High Speed Downlink Packet Access network.
Online auction website eBay Eachnet organized a special annual meeting in which the company held an auction to raise funds to help Chinese migrant workers who have been stopped by China's blizzards from returning home.
AMD, the world's second largest semiconductor manufacturer after Intel, has landed in Chengdu and the company says that it will set up a sales and R&D center there.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Network Security Emergency Treatment Team, which consists of more than 30 technicians and anti-virus experts from Chinese anti-virus service provider Jiangmin, has been set up in Beijing.
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 4, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited (TSE: 4005), a leading diversified chemical producer, has announced results for the nine months ended December 31, 2007. The Group posted sales of JPY 1,391.0 billion, an
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 4, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received a full-turnkey order from Nuon N.V. - a major Dutch energy company for three trains of natural gas-fired gas turbine combined-cycle systems (GTCC), over
From Xinhua: A decision to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos is beneficial to public interest, a Chinese official said on Sunday. The regulation on Internet video service, approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the
