Alle Einträge vom June, 2007
The armored car of Tangshan – a news rabbit hole
Saturday, 30.6.2007Going down a news rabbit hole in China “Trying to confirm a Web report becomes a lesson in the uses and abuses of news on the Internet …”. Von Peter Ford (CS Monitor).
China enacts a labor law meant to improve workers’ rights
Saturday, 30.6.2007Von Joseph Kahn und David Barboza. Quelle: IHT.
Disgorged straight into the taxi queue
Saturday, 30.6.2007The best years of my life “Chris Patten was the last pampered and plumed Governor of Hong Kong …” (The Standard).
Helong åˆé¾™
Thursday, 28.6.2007“… Beide Teile der längsten Überseebrücke der Welt sind am Dienstag in der Bucht von Hangzhou an Chinas Ostküste nahe Schanghai miteinander verbunden worden. Die 36 Kilometer lange Brücke soll bis nächsten Sommer für den Verkehr freigegeben werden …”. Quelle: Netzeitung/ dpa.
Neighborhood revolutionary
Thursday, 28.6.2007Ueber Sun Yat-sen in Hong Kong. Quelle: The Standard.
Chinese regulators find widespread abuses in food industry
Thursday, 28.6.2007Von David Barboza. Quelle: IHT.
Die Töchter des chinesischen Gärtners / Les Filles du Botaniste
Thursday, 28.6.2007Über den neuen Film von Dai Sijie. Quelle: kino-zeit.de
China demands Pakistan to ensure security of its nationals
Thursday, 28.6.2007Expressing serious concern over frequent terrorist attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan, Beijing has demanded “active measures” to prevent such incidents and “severe punishment” to the criminals. Quelle: Hindustan Times
In Food Safety Crackdown, China Closes 180 Plants
Thursday, 28.6.2007Regulators said 33,000 law enforcement officials combed the nation and turned up illegal food making dens, counterfeit bottled water, fake soy sauce, banned food additives and illegal meat processing plants. Quelle: NYT
Dem Lauf der Sonne folgen
Thursday, 28.6.2007Deutsche Wirtschaftsdelegation in Chongqing. Quelle: Handelsblatt
» Rote Gefahr im grünen Wald «
Wednesday, 27.6.2007“… Großflächig kauften Chinesen in Deutschland ganze Wälder, warnte der Bund Deutscher Forstleute …”. Quelle: FTD.
China’s leader [Hu Jintao] vows to uphold one-party rule
Wednesday, 27.6.2007Von Joseph Kahn. Quelle: NYT.
China’s leader vows to uphold one-party rule
Wednesday, 27.6.2007Hu Jintao said that “socialist democracy” and “grass-roots democracy” were long-term goals of the party, and that it should make “active and safe” efforts to develop them. He also emphasized that such changes must proceed in an orderly way, without diminishing the party’s “leading role.” Quelle: NHT
Chinesischer Entsorger an der Frankfurter Börse
Tuesday, 26.6.2007Die Deutsche Börse wirbt seit längerem um Börsenkandidaten aus dem Reich der Mitte. Würde der Börsengang ein Erfolg, könnten weitere folgen. Quelle: Handelsblatt
Chinese visitors expect top hats but get all-night parties instead
Tuesday, 26.6.2007“People use the internet for information on prices, but mostly they rely on Dickens and Pride and Prejudice and news images, often about the Royal Family, as a source.†Quelle: Times
A mystery in Beijing: Who runs the military?
Sunday, 24.6.2007“… We can’t let Taiwan and the U.S. know how we are going to defeat them if the U.S. decides to send forces to intervene in a conflict over Taiwan …”. Von David Lague. Quelle: IHT.
China confirms 7 Chinese kidnapped in Pakistani capital released
Sunday, 24.6.2007“… a Chinese couple, five of their women employees, and two Pakistani men …”. Quelle: Xinhua (vgl. Beitrag unten).
Radical students in Pakistan kidnap Chinese for ‘unislamic’ acts
Sunday, 24.6.2007Militant madrassa students kidnapped 12 persons, including nine Chinese, from a massage parlour in the Pakistani capital for “un-Islamic acts”. Quelle: The Times of India
Wuxi in race as algae outbreak returns
Sunday, 24.6.2007As many as 2,000 people have been working on lake Tai to remove fetid blue-green algae that are again threatening the water supply for millions of people. Quelle: The Standard