Does this sound familiar?
President Ma Ying-jeou: "death sentences had to be 'carried out according to the law'."
Taiwanese actress Pai Ping-ping: "Ms. Wang has deeply hurt Taiwanese people's feelings."
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Sri Lanka is currently a hotbed of espionage; the place is teeming with US, British, Australian and Israeli spies operating, almost at will, under cover as journalists, aid workers, tourists and people with various business interests.
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The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.
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China's economy is humming along in high gear, thanks to a fast-growing pile of dicey debt. Such booms tend to end badly.
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No matter how long I’m here, this will always be one of the things that I just can not stand. Maybe I am just too American. Maybe it is just that I hate negotiating the same thing over and over again, but I just hate this part of doing business in China.
read more »China's demand for oil jumped by an 'astonishing' 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
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There’s an awful lot of common sense reasons not to frequent prostitutes while going abroad. There’s quite a few more not to do it in a place where you don’t speak English. We just happened to be most knowledgeable about why one should not to do it while in China. Here is our top 10. Added suggestions are welcome.
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I am convinced about 99.9% of all emails go through. But the way I interpret that is that at least one email I send per day will not reach its destination. If I do not hear back from someone rather quickly, I just assume they did not get my email and so I send it again. In other words, I assume the worst.
read more »At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. [...] The tigers, all from the Shenyang Iceberg Animal Zoo in Liaoning, northeast China, were confined in very small and wet cages.
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One of the worlds most amazing cities is now live on Google street view. Enjoy :)
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China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that requires training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the current crop of mainland journalists.
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The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banished worries each week with soothing sounds from his "Champagne Music Makers."
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Here's a curve ball for 2010 -- while everyone was fretting about China's freight train economy derailing, Europe could be the trigger for a reversal of the current global economic rebound.
read more »Does North Korea Make for Good Chinese Colonial Turf?
Rather than express my knee-jerk personal opinion – as in, who wouldn’t want to see the dismantling of the Kim Farm (i.e. DPRK) and its associated tyrannical structures and edifices – let’s enumerate the facts for y’all so that we can decide together, objectively-like.
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SEOUL, March 10 (Bernama) -- Police has arrested a Chinese chemistry professor on charges of mass-producing narcotics at his lab and attempting to sell them online, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing officials as saying here.
read more »After a prolonged court case with the Swissotel Group, the Swiss Hotel in Dalian has renamed itself 'Swish' Hotel, and in the process exposed a lot of what's wrong with branding in China, and being international in general: smaller Chinese companies are not good at internationalising, even when they have a running start.
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SHENZHEN: A Nigerian man received the death penalty Tuesday in Dongguan, Guangdong province, after being convicted of drug trafficking. Experts say it is the first case in the southern manufacturing city in which a foreigner has received a death sentence for drug trafficking. His sentence was handed down from the Guangdong Higher People's Court.
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From The Age: 'Barely a week goes by without another... reminder of the gap between the supply and demand of credible information and analysis on China. The information deficit is partly due to China's failure to improve the transparency and credibility of its statistics in line with the growth of its economy.
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Last week a senior leader said that Xinjiang was stable. Now the province's highest Uyghur official claims otherwise while in Beijing for the National People's Congress. Who's right?
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The tall, dapper and smiling Chinese leader looked presidential as he pulled up at the front entrance of the Great Hall of the People, waving photographers and waiting reporters away. Senior members of the Politburo never enter through the front door. But this is Bo Xilai.
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