I used to think that China was the last great refuge of the smoker, but that was before a short visit to Indonesia last week. Spend a day in the capital Jakarta, and China begins to seem like an Asian California of pristine air and enlightened tobacco control policy.
Try to imagine just how bad a country’s tobacco epidemic has to be …
Ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Asia, China scholar Orville Schell writes for TIME about how the Obama administration should approach ties with China and why climate change should be the top priority for both countries. Schell says:
For the first time in recent history, the U.S. and China find themselves with
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My latest piece on China’s recent human cases of avian influenva and the curious lack of reported outbreaks in poultry is now posted here.
This week’s fire at the new China Central Television complex in Beijing has set off some stern online criticism of the state-run broadcaster. Some Chinese bloggers have complained about CCTV’s tendency to bend stories to fit the interests of the government. China Digital Times translates one widely recirculated post from a blogger who …
From my colleague Lin Yang, a look at some comments made by Xi Jinping, one of China’s next generation of leaders, during a speech in Mexico:
There are few clues as to what will be the style of the man who will most likely be China’s next top leader, Xi Jinping. Until his debut in the Politburo last year, he was mostly known as the son
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From our colleague Michael Schuman in Hong Kong, a look at what Asian countries are doing to minimize layoffs during the economic crisis. He writes:
In no country is the effort to save jobs more widespread than in China. The government recently estimated that 20 million migrant workers have lost their jobs as the global slowdown forces
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When I first saw the icon for today’s weather forecast–a yellow sun covered by a cloud and tiny dark spots–I thought the illustrator had gotten a little carried away with a visual depiction of air pollution. But as I rode to work in a light but steady drizzle, I recalled what that cloud over the sun is usually meant to designate: rain. …
Some stunning pictures of the fire here at Cnreview.com Commetary on the site also points to what appears o be orders to th Chinese press to tone down coverge of the fire. On the night of the accident (if that’s the right word) local radio went to town with breathless coverage. The nothing the next day. The popular Xinjingbao tabloid …
Story here, from the Associated Press.
Below are a few photos from the fire that gutted a building in the new China Central Television complex in Beijing tonight. I rode my bike in from the north, and it appeared that the entire complex was aflame, including the famous twisting towers that are the new CCTV headquarters. But upon closer inspection the fire appears to be …
Part of the iconic CCTV (China Central Television) complex, about which we have written often, is on fire. It’s early and reports aren’t clear but the building next to what Beijingers call the “big underpants” is pouring out great gouts of flame and some 20 stories could be aflame, according to eye witnesses. This is the last night of …
Since China announced last week that it is facing the most severe drought in half a century, there are signs the situation is becoming more desperate. The government has drastically upped its emergency funding for stricken farmers to nearly $13 billion and has begun employing cloud seeding to induce rain over parched croplands. Premier …
The China-India naval showdown is all hype, but the Sino-Indian toy trade war is most definitely on. Our colleague Madhur Singh in New Delhi reports:
…India is being accused of raising trade tensions between the world’s two largest emerging economies by imposing a temporary ban on imports of Chinese-made toys. The six-month ban was
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