“Chinese weather experts claim to have triggered the first artificial snow showers by releasing tiny particles into clouds over the Tibetan plateau …”. Quelle: The Guardian.

Chinas wachsende Bedeutung für Japan Von Urs Schoettli (NZZ).

Von Joseph Kahn. Quelle: IHT.

Quelle: Xinhua

Website des Ostasieninstituts der FH Ludwigshafen.

Quelle: Xinhua

Près de 1 890 milliards de yuans (242,3 milliards de dollars) de paiements ont été réalisés par carte bancaire en Chine, en 2006, chiffre en croissance de 97% par rapport à l’année précédente. Quelle: Chine-Informations

Wang Xiaoning, who according to the suit is serving a 10-year prison sentence in China; his wife, Yu Ling; and other unnamed defendants seek damages and an injunction barring Yahoo from identifying dissidents to Chinese authorities. Quelle: NYT

Xinhua: Nitrogen, phophorus threat to Yangtze, Shanghai Daily: Dongting Lake in severe danger.

“China’s vice health minister [Chen Xiaohong] on Tuesday said 5,519 medical personnel were injured in medical disputes last year as patients’ families and friends became more likely to use violence to vent their rage over hospital errors. ‘The number of violent disputes has been on the rise in recent years, as misdiagnosis and operation frauds repeatedly occurred in some local hospitals and clinics,’ … A total of 9,831 dispute-originated attacks were reported in 2006, damaging hospital facilities worth more than 200 million yuan (25.6 million U.S. dollars), a sharp rise from 5,093 violent cases and 67 million yuan loss in 2002, Chen said …”. Quelle: Xinhua.

Von Jim Yardley. Quelle: IHT.

“… [Michael] Sneed wrote in the Chicago newspaper [Chicago Sun-Times] on Tuesday that the Virginia Tech gunman was Chinese …”. Quelle: Beijing Newspeak (Blog). Vgl.: Beijing complains U.S. media were quick to blame Chinese student for shootings (IHT/ AP). Anm. der Chinablätter: Die Meldung, der Amokläufer könnte ein Student aus Shanghai sein, wurde kurzzeitig auch von der Online-Ausgabe der Shanghai Daily übernommen.

Im brandenburgischen Städtchen Oranienburg will ein Investor ein chinesisches Stadtviertel hochziehen - mit Wohnungen, Hotels und Geschäften im asiatischen Stil. Die Stadt hofft auf Tausende neue Jobs und viele Touristen. Quelle: Spiegel

Le Monde über den Film “Une jeunesse chinoise” (”Yihe yuan”) des Regisseurs Lou Ye.

The government and companies across China increasingly see a danger in becoming too dependent on a single market. So they are stepping up efforts to sell to other countries, particularly those outside the industrial world. Quelle: NYT

Quelle: Xinhua

Quelle: Xinhua

Wu kämpft seit Jahren gegen die Verschmutzung des Tai hu. Quelle: Basler Zeitung

Video, Quelle: Handelsblatt

Von Georg Blume. Quelle: Die Zeit.

Troubles in Tibet Von Tim Johnson. Quelle: China Rises (Blog).

Show oder Restauration? Wiederbelebungsversuche für alte Tradition in Xi’an. Quelle: Xinhua. 

Quelle: Xinhua

Quelle: IHT/ AP.

“Vulgarization of mass media is a problem of national consensus … vulgarity can be banished if media are all state-funded and state provided. If this is fiscally unfeasible, it would do regulators good to heed the advice of such serious-minded anchorman as Cui Yongyuan, who insists on being true to some principles of decorum. He called for setting up two kinds of television channels, the public and the commercial. In a time when escaping from television is no longer realistic, this duel-channel approach would provide at least some healthy options. In addition, if they cannot mend the channels, why not end some of them?” Kommentar von Wan Lixin, Shanghai Daily.

“… the first annual health report on the Yangtze River …”. Quelle: Shanghai Daily.

James Rose über das Salween-Staudammprojekt in Burma. Quelle: The Standard.

“… Earlier report said about 1.24 million Chinese college graduates would likely not get immediate job offers this year. China encourages university graduates to work in western, rural China by guaranteeing salaries, medical care and providing other subsidies …”. Quelle: Xinhua. 

Von Prudence Ho. Quelle: The Standard.

The annual Midi Music Festival is widely recognized as China’s most important rock music event, featuring two-third Chinese bands and one-third foreign bands. The 2007 edition of this festival (expected to attract more than 15,000 fans) will take place in Beijing from 1 to 4 May. Rock fans will find more information about this event, and about other genres and activities in the realm of Chinese jazz, punk, metal, electro, hiphop, on a website launched more than two years ago by rock afficionado Max-Leonhard von Schaper and his colleague Yu Yang.

Li Jie, geb. 1973, Absolvent der Kunstakademie der Shanghai Universität. Ausstellung im Diogenes-Fass 闲人艺术画廊, Moganshanlu, Shanghai. Bilder bei chinablaetter2007/ flickr.

“Bargain rates and new vistas are taking Chinese students to Indian universities ahead of American, European and Australian institutions, writes Margot Cohen …”. Quelle: The Standard.

Von Johnny Erling. Quelle: Die Welt.

“Am Oberen Indus in Pakistan werden 35.000 Felsbilder in einem Stausee versinken …”. Quelle: Spiegel Online.

Chinas fünftgrößte Bank plant Schanghai-IPO (FTD)

Just when it seemed safe to buy a plane ticket to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games, nongovernmental organizations and other groups appear to have scored a surprising success in an effort to link the Olympics, which the Chinese government holds very dear, to the killings in Darfur, which, until recently, Beijing had not seemed too concerned about. Quelle: NYT

Long live comrade Fang Yonggang! The battle begins over the heart of the 17th Party Congress Quelle: China Media Project.

“… Tourism experts said the Jurassic Park project would enrich Shaanxi’s tourism industry, which is dominated ancient cultural relics, ruins, tombs and buildings …”. Quelle: Xinhua.

“Nine people, including five police officers and a journalist, were injured on Thursday when they were attacked during an investigation into a pyramid selling scheme in Jiujiang City …”. Quelle: Xinhua.

“A high-ranking Chinese foreign ministry official said any attempt to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics would fail …”. Quelle: IHT/AP.

Furor over poor struggling poet, kept man and sleazy rich woman all rubbish Kommentar von Xiao Ma (Shanghai Daily).