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China Shines Image for Olympics
China Shines Image for Olympics
Jan 30, 2008 2:29 PM CST

China Shines Image for Olympics

Bureaucracy in full spin mode with Games less than 200 days away

(Newser) - With less than 200 days to go before the Summer Olympics, Der Spiegel takes an in-depth look at China’s feverish preparations and finds a sprawling bureaucracy working overtime to project the perfect image to the world. But while Beijing might clean the smog, and even prevent rain, making communist...

China Snow Crisis Turns Deadly
China Snow Crisis Turns Deadly
Jan 29, 2008 7:46 AM CST

China Snow Crisis Turns Deadly

Wild weather continues to strand thousands, cripple power supply

(Newser) - China’s record snowstorm has killed at least 25 people when the bus they were riding in careened off a slick mountain road in the southwestern province of Guizhou, reports Reuters. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today visited hordes of stranded train passengers in Hunan province, and the government urged migrant...

Foreign Buying Spree Reaches Deep Into US

With weak dollar driving acqusitions, lawmakers get skittish

(Newser) - As the dollar drops, foreign investors are buying up US enterprises large and small, from multi-billion-dollar stakes in Wall Street banks to ownership of chemical factories and construction companies in the likes of North Carolina. Canadian, British and German companies have been expanding their portfolios in the US for years,...

Snowstorm Disrupts Chinese Travel, Power

Holdup comes week before Lunar New Year travel season

(Newser) - The biggest snowstorm in 50 years is wreaking havoc with China’s transportation and power-supply infrastructure and triggering widespread shortages the week before the Lunar New Year. Over a foot of snow fell in Nanjing, reports Bloomberg. "We face a very severe situation in ensuring supplies of coal, electricity,...

Chinese Divorce Rate Surges
Chinese Divorce Rate Surges
Jan 25, 2008 3:00 PM CST

Chinese Divorce Rate Surges

Simplified procedures, one-child policy may be factors

(Newser) - The Chinese divorce rate shot up 18.2% last year, the Guardian reports. It's not a huge surprise: Simplified divorce proceedings have contributed to the long-term trend, and the social stigma appears to have dwindled considerably. Some sociologists have an additional theory: China's one-child policy has created a generation of...

Olympians Prepare Strategies for Beijing Smog

China promises clean air for Games, but teams are taking precautions

(Newser) - With the Summer Olympics set to begin Aug. 8 in one of the world’s smoggiest cities, competitors are looking for a Beijing edge. US athletes have been asking if they should train near busy highways to simulate Beijing’s noxious air, the New York Times reports, but trainers are...

US Sneeze Doesn't Spook Many at Davos

Economic power shift has many world execs cheery about prospects

(Newser) - Bigwigs spooked by the downturn in the US economy aren't spreading their usual cheer at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Fortune reports, but many other Davos attendees are smiling. Representatives say the Indian and Chinese economies are strong enough to weather recession; many agree with George Soros that “...

China Shut 44K Porn Sites in '07, Jailed Hundreds

Ministry says 'young minds' are being 'perverted'

(Newser) - China took down 44,000 porn websites last year, arrested 868 people, and penalized 2,000 others. The Public Security Ministry said today that Internet pornography has “perverted China’s young minds,” the AP reports. Porn and paid sex are illegal in almost all forms in the country;...

US Makes Canadian Torture List
US Makes Canadian Torture List
Jan 18, 2008 6:40 AM CST

US Makes Canadian Torture List

'Torture awareness' manual for diplomats includes US, Syria, Israel, Iran

(Newser) - The US, along with China, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel, is listed in an official Canadian foreign ministry document of countries where prisoners are at risk of torture, the BBC reports. The "torture awareness" training manual classifies as torture some US interrogation techniques, including forced nudity, isolation, and sleep...

China Cracks Down on Online Games
China Cracks Down on Online Games
Jan 17, 2008 12:03 PM CST

China Cracks Down on Online Games

Calls them 'spiritual opium'

(Newser) - China is cracking down on its booming, billion-dollar online game industry, which is seen as “spiritual opium” that threatens to hook the Chinese people, Reuters reports. The government today said it plans to regulate “undesirable” elements out of the game, which 41 million Chinese played this year. “...

For Hurting US Companies, World Supplies Band-Aid

In economic sea change, 'we need the money,' one US Rep. says

(Newser) - The subprime collapse has US financial institutions in uncharted waters—asking for help from foreign investors and governments, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley all have recently sought bailouts, a dramatic switch from a tradition that saw US banks coming to the “rescue of...

China May Scuttle $2B Citigroup Bailout

Sources say China's government is standing in the way of the deal

(Newser) - On the eve of Citigroup’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement, the Chinese government appears to have raised objections to China Development Bank's purchase of a $2 billion stake in the struggling financial giant, reports the Wall Street Journal. The proposed deal, reported by the Journal over the weekend, is part of...

Taiwanese Nationalists Win Big
Taiwanese Nationalists Win Big
Jan 12, 2008 12:25 PM CST

Taiwanese Nationalists Win Big

Party seeks reunification, while independence-seeking president reels from results

(Newser) - Taiwan’s China-friendly opposition party dominated parliamentary elections today, the BBC reports, dealing a blow to the hard-line president 2 months before his own poll. The KMT, which supports closer ties with Beijing, trounced the ruling DPP, winning 72% of the seats in the 113-seat chamber. President Chen Shui-bian, resigning...

Plasma TV Back From the Dead
Plasma TV Back From the Dead
Jan 11, 2008 6:58 PM CST

Plasma TV Back From the Dead

Finds niche in developing countries, but boom may not last

(Newser) - Plasma TV's rollercoaster ride continues as the technology given up for dead more than a year ago has made a booming sales comeback, Reuters reports. Demand in the developing world, especially in China, is driving the upswing. LCD technology seemed until recently to have trampled plasma, but it turns out...

Chinese Man Killed Over Cellphone Video

City inspectors beat 'citizen journalist' to death; official fired

(Newser) - More than 50 municipal inspectors beat to death an onlooker filming a confrontation between government officials and villagers in central China, CNN reports, sparking renewed criticism of China's press-freedom record. The head of the city administration bureau was fired today, reports the state news agency Xinhua, as authorities reacted quickly...

BlackBerry Still Expecting China Launch

Missed 2007, but RIM hopes high for last major Asian market

(Newser) - The BlackBerry didn't make it to China—the last major market in Asia to be cracked—in 2007, as expected, but Research in Motion isn't worried yet, Reuters says. The decision when to launch is in the hands of China Mobile, RIM's service partner, says Charles Liu, RIM's top exec...

Beijing Bans Plastic Bags
Beijing Bans Plastic Bags
Jan 9, 2008 10:03 AM CST

Beijing Bans Plastic Bags

China outlaws use, manufacture of thin, disposable bags starting in June

(Newser) - The Chinese government says it will prohibit stores from distributing free, disposable plastic bags starting this June, reports the AP. Amid growing fears about the environmental future of the world's largest nation, Beijing is asking people to use baskets or cloth carriers instead of the thin plastic bags that been...

China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

Impact of laws, slated to take effect Jan. 31, remains unclear

(Newser) - China appears set to clamp down on online video sites with a new set of regulations that restricts content and organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulations, to take effect Jan. 31, require sites broadcasting online video to be owned or controlled by the state, and to censor and...

Sky-High Oil Will Reshape World Power, Dent US Clout

Power shifts as global economies change

(Newser) - The surging price of oil from $10 a barrel a decade ago to a record $100 today is remaking the global economy and altering the balance of power across the world, according to the Wall Street Journal. If oil prices continue to climb, as many experts predict, US political power...

Tech Sales to China Raise Red Flags

Weapons experts say imports could upgrade military—or be sold

(Newser) - Chinese companies linked to the People’s Liberation Army were cleared to import sensitive high-tech equipment from the US after the Bush administration eased restrictions blocking the sale of technology with military applications, the New York Times reports. One company has ties to arms sales to Iran and Syria, claims...

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