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Time for city to make next leap, remove roadblocks: Recruiters

Recruiter Shi Lei sees the 2010 Shanghai Expo as a potential catalyst for companies to embrace greener technologies and reduce their carbon emissions, while also creating tens of thousands of new jobs.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

China Opens Cracks in Its Deep Culture of Government Secrecy

Published in the Times Argus:
The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark.
Then China did what would once have been unthinkable

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |
 

Mainland expects new phase for cross-Strait relations

Top political advisor Jia Qinglin said Friday that a time of “greater communication” between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan has come and he hoped for a new period of peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

Enough of the Big Picture

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…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |
 

More screening time demanded for domestic films

As Avatar continues to smash box-office records in China, the government has reminded domestic cinemas that the screening time of imported movies be no more than a third of the total.

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

China and Taiwan to hold talks on major trade pact

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Experts from China and Taiwan on Tuesday launched the first round of talks aimed at paving the way for a major trade pact between the one-time rivals, both sides said.

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |
 

Too early to write off democracy in China

Perhaps the Chinese people will be content, one day, to be rich and unfree. But the hunger for liberty is strong, and it is not confined to any time or place, writes Michael Skapinker

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

“Looking Back at Those Years”: Yang Zili’s Memory Tweets

Siweiluozi’s blog has translated a series of tweets by writer Yang Zili, a founding member of the New Youth Study Group who spent eight years in prison on subversion charges. On Twitter, Yang has provided an account of his arrest, trial and his t…

[ More ] January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

It’s Laba again; porridge time

Free Laba porridge is handed out in Shanghai Thursday January 21, 2010, in run-up to the traditional Laba Festival that falls on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month.

[ More ] January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |

Thirty runners disqualified from Chinese marathon for cheating

Imposters and vehicles among methods used by participants competing for exam credit in raceDespite what their PE teachers might have told them, for many of those who competed in a Chinese marathon earlier this month, it was not the taking part but the winning that counted.Almost a third of the runners who finished in the [...]

[ More ] January 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in China |
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