The earliest days of international expositions stressed concepts such as trade and progress, but in recent decades, they’ve become more and more focused on environmentalism: not just educating the public, but exploring what might be done to undo the da…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China, often accused of being concerned only with Africa’s oil, is building, free of charge, the edifice that will house the continent’s political headquarters for decades to come.
• Global deal at next summit in Mexico impossible, says Prescott• ‘Disarray’ cited over UN organisation assessing pledgesA global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the [...]
South Africa: Two decades since an end was declared to apartheid, companies that once looked to the west or inward are devoting attention to the ‘Brics’ – and the interest is reciprocal
In Time, Jeffrey Wasserstrom critiques the spate of recent China books whose authors have two things in common: “a conviction that they know what will happen next (even though the P.R.C. has been defying the best guesses of pundits and academic s…
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has promised to take effective measures to help people through the worst snow in Xinjiang in six decades, said a statement from the State Council General Office Monday.
Outlook Magazine reports that Beijing is closing thousands of representative offices from local regions that conduct lobbying in the capital. AP reports:
Liaison offices representing regional governments have operated in the capital for decades, but t…
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has promised to take effective measures to help people through the worst snow in Xinjiang in six decades, said a statement from the State Council General Office Monday.
The worst snow in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in six decades has claimed 13 lives by Monday, according to the regional bureau of civil affairs.
From Time magazine:
In my more than two decades in China, I have seldom seen the foreign business community more angry and disillusioned than it is today. Such sentiment goes beyond the Internet censorship and cyberspying that led to Google’s Jan…