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| January 30, 2002 |
2001 Top 10 Cases for
Regulating Market Economic Order
The
State Market Leading Group Office recently made
public top 10 cases for regulating and
straightening out market order in 2001 including
some nationwide astonishing cases such as Yuanhua Smuggling (Xiamen) and Nandan Mine Flooding
Accident. -Du MinghuaLooking Homeward -Terence Chea
Chinese leadership
comes full cycle -Nick Driver
Pocket arrogance
and pride for market -Wang Wu
Chinese Cooks Swear
to Spare Wildlife -Xinhuanet
Currency Events: A
Great Leap Backward? -John Pomfret
"Virtual
Chinese" Project Announced -Science &
Technology Daily
Beijing to Open Its
Schools to Children of Migrant Workers -China Daily
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| January 28, 2002 |
Chinese media turn spotlight
on homosexuals
Initially cautious on gay and lesbian issues,
they are now in a race to produce the most daring
reports -Jason LeowCultivating
Democracy in China -Henry Chu
High-Powered TV
Documentary to Aid Anti-Drug Campaign -Xinhuanet
Teens form 10% of
China's criminals -Mary Kwang
Chinese Firms
Accused of Dumping Urged to Respond -Xinhuanet
More Chinese Cities
Turn Garbage into Power -People's Daily
EU Ban on Chinese-made
Food "Unacceptable" -Xinhuanet link
Farming Sector
Needs Attention -Xinhua
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| January 24, 2002 |
How Corrupt Are China's
Banks?
A U.S. investigation into corruption at the Bank
of China has toppled one of the country's leading
bankers and exposed the extent to which politics
sabotages professionalism in its banking system.
Only sweeping reforms can hope to stop the growth
of bank graft -Bruce Gilley with Susan V.
Lawrence and David MurphyGreedy officials
bypassed as fines for illegal births revised -AFP
China to Give
Fairer Medical Service to Millions of Farmers -Xinhuanet
China races to save
history -Martin Fackler
The Not-So-Good
Book -Hannah Beech
A Human Rights
Site? In China? -David Winning link
Cheap Talk In China -Suh-kyung Yoon link
New Streams Of
Thought -David Murphy
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| January 19, 2002 |
China to divert Yangtze in
world's biggest building project
Environmental experts say the Yangtze could dry
up in 30 years and have urged China to take
simpler steps like raising water prices, curbing
rampant well-digging, and improving water
treatment. One expert suggested that fixing
Beijing’s 800,000 leaky taps could be as
effective as diverting the Yangtze. -Oliver
August linkTo get rich is
glorious -Economist.com
Rights 'squeezed as
profile raised' -AFP link
China's virgin
obsession fuels surgery boom -Straits Times link
Tell-All Book
Portrays Split in Leadership of China -Craig S.Smith
China Finds Bugs on
Jet Equipped in U.S. -John Pomfret
Sino-Indian
relations: A new beginning -Jing-dong Yuan
A rewriting of
history, Beijing style -Lai Fu-shun
China slashes drugs
prices -Duncan Hewitt link
China Orders E-Mail
Screening -Slashdot
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| January 16, 2002 |
'Taiwan' will to be added to
passports
"For a long time, the people of Taiwan have
felt ashamed of our passports because Taiwanese
passports have long been mistaken for Chinese
ones. We can make the distinction, but most
foreigners and foreign governments can't," -Lin
Mei-chunStill Not the China
That Two Heroes Hoped For -Jonathan Mirsky
Chinese
Transnational Feminism and the Cinema of
Suffering -Andrew Grossman
Over-the-top TV
soap depresses Chinese viewers -Miriam O'Donohoe
Forced Chinese
labourers in Japan more than 40,000 -China Daily
China's new rich
flaunt their wealth in platinum -Nic Hopkins
Preservationists
Fight Plan to List Terracotta Soldiers... -China Daily
Lawyer to sue for
right to practise -Ma Zhenhuan
Between Two Worlds -Thomas Müthing
Life Between Yin
and Yang -Miao Yajie
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| January 12, 2002 |
| China's First National Price
Hearing Arouses National Discussions. China enacted the
Price Law in 1998, introducing the idea of public
hearings into the process of price setting by the
government...Chinese consumers said the public
hearing is a new concept in China, and are hoping
that through the ticket price hearing, consumers
will gain an open and transparent price system. -Xinhuanet Tax incentives to
remain for foreign firms -China Daily
China Adjusts
Agriculture Policy for WTO Entry -Xinhuanet link
Car wash store sets
shining example -Liang Yu
Decades-old
residence system being replaced -Jiang Zhuqing
End of ban on
secretly taped evidence welcomed -SCMP
China pressures
Japan as yen jitters grow -Reuters
8 impacts to blow
local banking -Business Weekly
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| January 10, 2002 |
China's environmental
outlook bleakens
China needs to place more attention on
environmental protection as a growing population
and rapid urbanization threaten to wreak havoc on
an already perilous ecological balance, Premier
Zhu Rongji has warned. -CNN linkEast China's ocean
ecology deteriorates -China Daily
Auditors Track
Errors by Officials -China Daily
Dictatorial
decision-making? -Willy Wo-Lap Lam
China's pirate
industry thriving -Robert Marquand
Labour disputes on
the rise -Yao Lan
Police break up
bankrupt factory protest -AFP link
Princes of
privatisation reign -Jasper Becker
Corruption Charges
Rock China's Leaders -John Pomfret
China's new
leadership is already picked -Jasper Becker
Hong Kong court
slams door on Chinese migrants -Tan Ee Lyn
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| January 8, 2002 |
 Misery of China's urban
migrant workers exposed
More than one million Chinese are accused every
year of being "jobless migrants and beggars",
officials from the Ministry of civil affairs in
Beijing are quoted as saying by the Southern Weekend - the newspaper (article) which has exposed
the scandal. -John GittingsRural cash crunch
taxes reformers -Josephine Ma
China may buy euros
for foreign reserves -James Kynge
Media leaders fear
China's influence -Tsai Ting-I
Zhaodaola.com Goes
up in Smoke -Yang Xiao
Back in the USA -Sascha Matuszak
Dancing to
Perpetual Youth -Zhu Lin
Can China Pull An
India? -Slashdot.org
The Perils of
Flower Power -Bruce Gilley
Jailed Chinese
Activist In Poor Health -AP link
China Faces
Protests from Farmers Amid Rural Reforms -Jim Randle link
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| January 5, 2002 |
 Greeting the Year of the
Horse
A Russian young man pastes a coin to an ice
sculpture of horse to greet the upcoming Year of
the Horse mid-night December 31, 2001 in Moscow.
In recent years, the Chinese custom of using any
of the twelve animals representing the twelve
Earthly Branches to symbolize a year is getting
more and more popular in Russia. Xinhua PhotoChina's elderly
face solitary future -Louisa Lim link
Wronged wives
facing new hurdles -Clara Li
New software
protection ruling judged 'too harsh' -Julia Han
Double death leads
to legal wrangling -Xing Bao
Western region an
ecological disaster in the making:study -Ray Cheung link
European Fishes
Disappearing From Ertix River, NW China -Xinhuanet
Chinese language:
No longer a question of character -Kao Chen
China angers widow...with
latest 'movie' - Christopher Bodeen
Writers Seek On-line
Protection -China Daily
Pickpocket pickers -Lu Chang
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| January 2, 2002 |
![Chinese People mount the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing in celebration of the New Year on January 1, 2001. More than 10,000 people braved freezing temperatures to dance and jog on the Great Wall to bid farewell to the old year and to mark the start of the new year. [Reuters]](rcnewyear2002.jpg) Chinese People mount the
Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing in
celebration of the New Year on January 1, 2001.
More than 10,000 people braved freezing
temperatures to dance and jog on the Great Wall
to bid farewell to the old year and to mark the
start of the new year. [Reuters]People's Republic
of Food -Donna Maloney
Hong Kong embraces
Chinese tourists -Andrew Brown
Law to root out the
corrupt and unfit who sit in judgment -Fong Tak-Ho
Trials of male
contraceptive shot anger mainland Aids fighters -SCMP
Opportunities in
China entice overseas Chinese -Carrie Kirby
As their numbers
swell, returnees are no longer calling all the
shots -SCMP
A 'chicken' in
China -Phyllis Edgerly Ring
China's Coffin
Chaser -Ching-Ching Ni
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