Saturday 28th January, 2012
China spends $79 mn from lottery on poor
A total of 500 million yuan (around $79 million) from China's lottery earnings has been used to financially support underprivileged school students and teachers, the education ministry has said. At ...
Hundreds battle forest fire in China
More than 800 firefighters, policemen and villagers were battling to put out a raging forest fire that broke out in the mountains in southwest China. The inferno broke out around 4.30 p.m. Friday ...
Apple launches probe into unsafe factory conditions in China
Technology giant Apple has launched a probe into a report that said factories in China that manufactured its products employed child labour and had 24-hour working days and unsafe conditions, a ...
Companies have no choice but to be in India: Ashwani Kumar
Beijing News.NetIndia and China will emerge as the only destinations for companies seeking business as Asia will lead the world economic growth in the coming decade, India's Minister of State for Planning Ashwani ...
China Ex-Im Bank lends $41M for Bahamas project
Miami HeraldNASSAU, Bahamas -- China's state-owned Export-Import Bank has agreed to finance a new port and a bridge in the Bahamas, the second major infrastructure project backed in recent months by the ...
China - Authorities urged to refrain from using excessive force against protesters
IFEXNorpa Yonten, Protester (Human Rights Watch/IFEX) - New York, January 27, 2012 - The Chinese government should immediately investigate shootings of Tibetan protesters by security forces, open ...
China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions
Canada.com-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid ...
Apple catches flak in China supply chain saga
CNet(Credit: Apple) The maker of iPads and iPhones is hardly alone among tech companies that rely heavily on Chinese factories under scrutiny for labor practices. But it has become the ...
Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution
New York TimesBut faced with an Internet-led brushfire of criticism, the edifice of environmental propaganda is collapsing. The government recently reversed course and began to track the most pernicious measure ...
Inside China's censorship machine
Canada.comIn fall 2009, I sat in a large auditorium festooned with red banners and watched as Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, China's dominant search engine, paraded onstage with executives from 19 other ...
China fears “Arab Spring” of its own… buy heavily if it happens
Nasdaq, United States Ambassador Gary Locke says Beijing is "very fearful" of a Chinese repeat of the Arab Spring, leading to a "significant crackdown on dissension." As Baron von ...
Will China Dragon Bite in 2012?
Human Rights WatchStrike hard and take prisoners. That’s the Chinese government’s message on how it will respond to perceived dissent in this Dragon year of ...
Op-Ed Contributor: Why China Is Weak on Soft Power
International Herald TribuneChina's president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: "We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying ...
Waiting Out China's Next Growth Spurt
U.S. News & World ReportThe compromised buying power of Europe and the United States will have a lot of pull on China's 2012 economic and stock-market fate. There's little Chinese officials can do about that. ...
China’s Demographic Inflection Point Approaches, Says Scholar
The Epoch TimesChina’s working age population of 15 to 64-year-olds is declining for the first time since 2002, and the trend may signal a danger to China's continued economic growth, according to a ...
China: At Davos, China lowers growth forecast to 8.5 percent
Spero NewsLast year growth was at 9.2. The Chinese statistics unreliable because of state intervention in credit policies and false growth data of the provinces and of actual inflation (16%). China will not ...
Trade Winds Change in China
Journal of CommerceChina's role in international trade is changing rapidly, but export prospects in major markets are 'bleak' China, the world’s second-largest economy after the U.S., saw foreign ...
Apple investigating practices at its factories in China including child labour
Independent.ieChina that include child labour, 24 hour working days and unsafe conditions at the plants which manufacture its iPhones, iPads and computers. In an email allegedly sent ...
Obama officials back bill to hit China subsidies
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is pressing Congress to restore an important weapon in the U.S. arsenal against subsidized imports from China by quickly passing ...
Two words for delusional China bulls: 'PER CAPITA'
FXstreetWhen I hear someone mention China in the midst of a political discussion aimed at understanding our future economic path, I shake my head. There are very real reasons to give China's economy ...
Sanction: Oil industry sees China winning, West losing
Times of IndiaIran will continue to sell much the same volume of oil - 2.6 million barrels per day or around 3 per cent of world supply - but almost all of it will flow to China, they reason. And being pretty ...
China stocks waver modestly Wednesday
China DailyBEIJING--The weakness of banking shares weighed on Chinese stock markets, pulling the benchmark indices in Shanghai and Shenzhen modestly lower to close on Wednesday. The benchmark Shanghai ...
China stocks close mixed - July 5
China Daily/enpproperty--> BEIJING -- Chinese shares closed mixed Tuesday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.13 percent, or 3.54 points, to close at 2,816.36. The Shenzhen Component Index ...
Forest fire continues to burn in China
WHP CBS 21BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of fire fighters are battling a blaze in the forest near the famed southwestern Chinese tourist town of Lijiang.State media say investigators were looking into the ...
Maybe we need to be more like China
Las Vegas SunFriday, Jan. 27, 2012 | 2:01 a.m. For months, even years, Republicans have talked as if solving our economic problems simply means reducing taxes, regulations and the debt, thus developing an ...
Another Tibetan shot dead by China police: rights groups
Turkish Daily NewsArmed Chinese police (L) patrol on a street as Ethnic Tibetans walk past in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on January 27, 2012. AFP photo Chinese security forces shot dead ...
Wishful Thinking About China At Davos: CEIBS Dean John Quelch
Forbes(Bill Gates, Eric Schmidtand Vikram Pandit have been among the attendees at this week's World Economic Forum in Davos grabbing international headlines. What are delegates saying about China? To ...
Two Uighurs deported from Cambodia to China get life
The StarBEIJING (Reuters) - China has jailed two Muslim Uighurs deported from Cambodia for life, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday, showing no sign of loosening its grip on far-western Xinjiang Uighur ...
China: Iran sanctions not constructive
UPIThe Chinese government, reacting to the European Union's embargo on Iranian oil, said such sanctions are not constructive. "To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran are not ...
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