
The Lion Awakes
News at a Glance
今天的中国新闻
A compilation of Headlines + Brief Summary from Chinese & International Publications relating to China.
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China News Archive
From 2008
The New York Times
Rivals and Partners
BANGKOK — Last fall, a rare opinion poll was conducted across China. It asked a simple question: What do you perceive as the greatest threat facing China? The range of answers was interesting — but even more interesting was the way the survey was reported in India.
Where does the heart of the relationship between the dragon and the elephant lie?
New Investment Tools Approved by Regulator in China
SHANGHAI — China took a major step Friday toward making its capital market system more sophisticated and perhaps more stable as it agreed to give investors a new and powerful set of risk-management tools.
The Age
Corruption in China growing at least as fast as the economy
JOHN GARNAUT, BEIJING
LAST weekend a mid-ranking police officer in Shenzhen named Liu Shengqiang invited 1100 guests to a five-star hotel for his daughter's wedding banquet. The 500,000 yuan ($A79,500) price tag probably amounted to several years' salary, although he did make a 36,000 yuan return from ''red envelopes'' - guests giving cash as gifts.
Asia Times Online
BOOK REVIEW
Diamond reclaimed
Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun
Reviewed by Kent Ewing
HONG KONG - Diamond Hill, now just another station along Hong Kong's world-class mass transit system, was once full of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. No one hopping off a train at Diamond Hill today could guess at its rich history during the 1950s and 1960s as a squatter village populated mostly by poor refugees from the mainland.
SUN WUKONG
Hainan tries (once more) to get rich
By Wu Zhong, China Editor
HONG KONG - China's tropical island province of Hainan is to be developed into a top international tourism resort by 2020, under ambitious plans announced this week by the State Council, or central government's cabinet.
Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China
By M K Bhadrakumar
A year ago, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh made the startling revelation that his country's security forces apprehended a group of Islamists linked to the Israeli intelligence forces. "A terrorist cell was apprehended and will be referred to the courts for its links with the Israeli intelligence services," he promised.
SINOGRAPH
Fears real and imagined
By Francesco Sisci
BEIJING - China's problems are not all internal. On the outside, China's rise has created plenty of fears, some small, some large. Among the small fears are those commonly found among Americans who see China as a second wave of the Yellow Peril that scared the US in the 1980s, when it was thought that Japan would soon take over North America.