From AFP:China registered a 7.57 billion dollar trade deficit in agricultural products during the first five months of 2008, up by more than 14-fold over the same period last year, state press said Sunday.China imported 23.75 billion dollars of agricultural
Written by Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow, from Los Angeles Times:President Bush's announcement that he will attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics came in the wake of brutal crackdowns in Tibet and during a week when seven peacekeepers
Most discussions of China's search for resources in Africa focus on oil, minerals, and timber. Often overlooked is China's equally huge appetite for ivory. A paper published last year in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy
Written by Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, from the International Herald Tribune:First, local Chinese authorities have repeatedly demonstrated their incompetence in handling incipient crises.Typically, a mass riot has three phases. During the first
From the Economic Times:China's auto import growth has slowed down in the first five months of 2008 after a tightened control that denies refitted and stolen motor vehicles access to the country's market, the customs said. Since April, China has
After shutting down small coal mines across China due to environmental and safety concerns, Chinese officials are encountering pricing problems as they try to reopen the mines to alleviate a coal shortage. From the International Herald Tribune:A push by China
AP reports on the sentencing of a former Pentagon analyst on espionage charges:At a sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court, Gregg W. Bergersen, 51, of Alexandria, apologized and said he never meant to hurt his country.Bergersen thought that Louisiana businessman
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that, in addition to the International Olympic Committee refusing to pressure China for greater media freedom, Chinese officials have ordered broadcast delays during the Olympic Games.If China's superstar Liu Xiang fulfils his destiny and wins
Another report on the continued crackdown on alleged terrorist activity as the countdown to the Olympics progresses. From AP:Radio Free Asia reported that the Kashgar Intermediate Court in the restive western region of Xinjiang sentenced two men to death on
China would support domestic enterprises to build more world-renowned brands and to increase the added value of their trademarks, said a senior official on Saturday. Fu Shuangjian, deputy director of the State Administration for In ...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China rose 45.5 percent in the first half of the year, deepening worries that the inflow of "hot money" could lead to higher inflation. The Ministry of Commerce said on Friday that foreign investors ...
PetroChina and Sinopec, China's two leading oil producers, are expected to import 720,000 oil products in July for eastern regions, as part of the nation's efforts to ensure sufficient oil supplies during the upcoming Beijing Olympics. ...
Hong Kong's newest banknotes probably won't see much circulation.It's more likely they'll be framed or placed between two clear, plastic sheets. That's because they're limited edition collectibles commemorating the upcoming Beijing ...
The People's Insurance Company of China (PICC) said first-half premium income rose 68 percent year-on-year to 86.4 billion yuan (12.5 billion U.S. dollars). PICC became the second-largest insurer by premium income, second only to th ...
China's scientific expedition to the North Pole is purely aimed at studies on climate change in the area rather than exploration of natural resources, the expedition's chief scientist said Friday. "The impact of global environmental ...
China's venture capital market was brisk in the second quarter of this year, with 159 enterprises obtaining such investment. According to a recent forum on venture capital and private equity investment in China, among the 159 enterp ...
Growth in China's auto imports slowed down in the first five months of this year, thanks largely to a compulsory coding system for standardizing vehicle purchase from abroad, according to General Administration of Customs. The new i ...
China's trade deficit in agricultural products rocketed 14.3 times on the year-earlier level to 7.57 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of this year, sources with the Ministry of Agricuture said on Sunday. Foreign trade i ...
China's Ministry of Finance said on Friday it would float 24.59 billion yuan (3.62 billion U.S. dollars) worth of three-year, book-entry treasury bonds next week. The bonds, the 11th batch of its kind this year, had a fixed annual i
