Going 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).

Von Joseph Kahn und David Barboza. Quelle: IHT.

Wie umgehen mit China? Spiegel-Online-Forum.

The best years of my life “Chris Patten was the last pampered and plumed Governor of Hong Kong …” (The Standard).

“… Beide Teile der längsten Ãœberseebrücke 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.

Quelle: Imagethief

Quelle: Xinhua.

Ueber Sun Yat-sen in Hong Kong. Quelle: The Standard.

Von David Barboza. Quelle: IHT.

Nachtrag  Quelle: CNN

Ãœber den neuen Film von Dai Sijie. Quelle: kino-zeit.de

Expressing 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

Regulators 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

Deutsche Wirtschaftsdelegation in Chongqing. Quelle: Handelsblatt

“… Großflächig kauften Chinesen in Deutschland ganze Wälder, warnte der Bund Deutscher Forstleute …”. Quelle: FTD.

Von Joseph Kahn. Quelle: NYT.

Hu 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

Quelle: Die Welt/AFP/AP.

Die Deutsche Börse wirbt seit längerem um Börsenkandidaten aus dem Reich der Mitte. Würde der Börsengang ein Erfolg, könnten weitere folgen. Quelle: Handelsblatt

“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

“… 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.

“… a Chinese couple, five of their women employees, and two Pakistani men …”. Quelle: Xinhua (vgl. Beitrag unten).

Militant 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

As 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