Category Archives: Internet

From Xinhua: Special columns will appear on 41 major local newspapers from 28 provinces to support the country’s “people’s war” on drugs as of June 1, sources with China’s Public Security Ministry said. It will be the first time that … Continue reading →

Yesterday careless People’s Daily editors and non fact-checking Bloomberg reporters sent jitters through world currency markets by claiming that the yuan was about to be revalued. Today the International Herald Tribune is trying to cause a completely opposite reaction in … Continue reading →

McDonald’s is planning to open it’s first drive-through hamburger outlet in China this year, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. The new outlet will be in Shenzhen. The report also quotes Jim Skinner, chief executive of the fast … Continue reading →

Tha Asian Wall Street Journal reports: [Xinhua reporter] Guan Xiangdong… was on duty in Hong Kong Saturday while financially savvy colleagues took the day off, and she cobbled together a story on the impact of a possible appreciation of the … Continue reading →

Geremie Barmé has published an article called on Japanfocus.org called “Mirrors of History, On a Sino-Japanese Moment and Some Antecedents” that looks at “the fascinating yet unsettling face of China’s contemporary cheery authoritarianism”. Barmé analyses the recent anti-Japanese demonstrations in … Continue reading →

Xinhua reported today that Zhang Chunqiao, member of the Gang of Four, died on April 21 in Shanghai. He had been given medical parole from his life jail sentence in 1998. As part of the Gang of Four — together … Continue reading →

The New York Times reports: About 40 Chinese officials are to visit Harvard at the end of June for a weeklong training session. Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said he was helping plan a program on topics including … Continue reading →

Xinhua reports that the Fortune Global Forum, starting in Beijing on May 16, will attract many “bosses from Fortune 500 companies”. At least 45 of them will arrive on their own private planes, which will give the city’s Capital Airport … Continue reading →