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May 30, 2002
China's media expose mine disaster cover-up While his workers were trapped in the flooded and blasted-out shaft, owner Zhang Shunhe was above ground hiding the burned body of one dead miner, destroying employee records and using white paint to conceal burn marks at the mine's entrance, the state newspaper China Daily said on Thursday. -AP Puffing away -Helen Pan The Cost of Freedom -Brook Larmer Jiang: Reformer or rehasher? -Willy Wo-Lap Lam China's cable firms fight deadly turf war -Oliver August 6-Nation Group Negotiates Free-trade Zone -China Daily Order Yielding to Lawlessness in Rural China -Erik Eckholm Rural China sees a market revolution -Martin Fackler Yangtze's pearl has new lustre -John Gittings In Rural China, It's a Family Affair -Hannah Beech Male Pregnancy Now an Option, Beijing Surgeon Says -Eastday Widespread Red Tide Threatens Environment -China Daily China to Tighten Control over Import of Electronic Wastes -Xinhuanet
May 28, 2002
China must better back farmers China needs to alleviate the tax burdens placed on the nation's huge farm population to boost farmers' coffers. The nation should also increase "green box" or non-trade-distorting subsidies, which include payments in research and technology application, infrastructure construction and environmental protection. -Niu Li Cheers to China -Karen Mclauchlan GE chief stresses focus on China -AP China's lumber market proves tough to nail -John Greenwood US officials loosen tongues behind closed doors -Maxim Kniazkov link I am leaving China with much more than a plastic plaque -Miriam Donohoe China Spends 4.6 Billion RMB on Basic Livelihood Guarantee -Xinhuanet 23 Million Chinese Employed by Foreign-funded Firms -People's Daily China Faces Wider Scope of Geological Disasters -People's Daily
May 26, 2002
CAL Passenger Jet Crashes in Taiwan Strait The Boeing 747-200 aircraft, carrying 206 passengers and 19 crew, left Chiang Kai-shek International Airport at 3:08 p.m. and was expected to arrive in Hong Kong at 4:28 p.m., but disappeared from radar screens at 3:33 p.m. when it was 10 nautical miles north of Penghu at a height of 35,000 feet. -Maubo Chang Seeking A Rich Life -Beijing Today Brake Defect Leads to Recall of Minibuses -China Daily Demand for maids escalates in China -Michael Dorgan China Cellphone Radiation Law Could Cost Billions -Jonah Greenberg China losing its campaign against piracy -Indira A.R. Lakshmanan Printmaking is fast emerging trend in contemporary Chinese art -Maria Siow Pawnshops take new role as loan leader -Michael Dorgan WB Releases Report on China's Reform of State Ownership -CIIC
May 23, 2002
Deputy health minister raises spectre of epidemics Mr. Ma said that cleaning up the reservoir bed has profound public-health implications and should be seen as an extremely important component of the Three Gorges project. -Kelly Haggart link Largest gas field found in N. China -Cui Ning Joint action to scythe down poppy industry -Fu Jing Nine Steel Products Face Quota Tariffs -China Daily "Solid water" invented for planting trees in deserts -Xinhua China denies manned Moon mission plans -David Whitehouse North Korean defectors arrive in South Korea -Martin Nesirky China's Internet Rules May Bring Problems as Well as Benefits -Gartner
May 20, 2002
New regulations to protect workers' health The new regulation will not only force employers to improve working conditions, but will also give workers more legal rights to prevent occupational diseases and enabling them to receive compensation. -China Daily Reality Bites -Karen Mazurkewich Stepping 70 Years Back in Time -Miao Yajie link Investigative media new to China -Elaine Kurtenbach Registration Number Hottest Ticket in Town -Wang Dandan Polluted, fake, unsafe foods alarming food-loving Chinese -Elaine Kurtenbach Future Rosy for Organic Food Production -China Daily Over 100 Korean Missionaries Detained in China -Shim Jae-yun Identities of five intruders into Japanese consulate exposed -People.com.cn Taiwan's laborers march to demand reconciliation with rival China -Annie Huang Eying China Warily from Taiwan -Bruce Einhorn Taiwan 'boy band' rocks China -Duncan Hewitt
May 15, 2002
China begins huge reforestation effort China embarked Tuesday on a 20-billion-yuan (US$2.4 billion), 10-year program to plant 170,000 square miles of trees - an area roughly the size of California. -China Daily Iodized salt remains out of reach for many Chinese -Zhang Feng Chinese Junk -Hannah Beech GeoCities will be performing scheduled maintenance starting Friday, May 17th, 2002 at 9:00 pm PST (GMT-7). Service will be restored the morning of Sunday, May 19th, 2002.
May 13, 2001
Why Is Selecting China's ‘National Flower’ So Difficult? The peony was the top choice for "national flower" in a referendum held throughout China in 1994. But no final decision has ever been made and not everyone agrees with that choice-- or even if one flower should represent a country acknowledged as the source of 85 percent of the world’s flower species. -Guangming Daily Worked Till They Drop -Philip P. Pan How the Beats Came to China -Jim Jones Pets in China Become Big Business -China Daily Growing sex imbalance shocks China -John Gittings Diablo with a history lesson -Gamespot via Brandrecon First Supermarket in a North China Prison Opens -People's Daily Where Toilets Are the Pits, a Push for Porcelain -Elisabeth Rosenthal link
May 11, 2002
China Expands Compulsory Education in Rural Areas The project will cover 522 county-level places in 19 provinces and regions in central and western parts of China, 462 of these in the west. A total of 124 million people will benefit from the project, among them 49 million of minority ethnic groups. -People's Daily China Reveals Lives Of Crash Victims -AP The Great Consulting Pile-Up -Ben Dolven Innovation dies in China's schoolrooms -Julie Chao China Is Among Countries with Wide Income Gap -Li Yan Survivor wins payout over Nanjing libel -Robert Whymant China Sells US$582 Million Soccer Lottery -People's Daily China in the front line of exodus from North Korea -Calum MacLeod
May 9, 2002
China plane crash kills all 112 on board A flotilla of ships plucked corpses from the sea on Wednesday after China's second major air disaster in a month as the airline told relatives all 112 passengers and crew on the stricken plane were dead. -Edwin Chan Scalpel to chalk stick -Pan Ji Young drug peddlers -Yao Lan March to demand use of 'Taiwan' -Lin Mei-chun Holiday spending inspires insurers -Jiang Jingjing Every picture tells a story -Willy Wo-Lap Lam link Longevity Flourishes in China's Garlic County -Xinhua Educated Mothers Are Strict With Their Children -Shanghai Evening Post In a first, China to allow non-mainland firm to distribute film -Martin Fackler Expanding 'Chinese Style' Business to the Global Market -Kazumi Tanaka
May 7, 2002
Medical Loans Make a Beginning in China In some countries around the world, loans for medical expenses from private financial institutions are accepted by consumers in the same way as loans for cars and housing. In China, some financial companies are beginning to offer this service, but in a way that so far has received a cold reception. -Beijing Evening Post /Zhang Tingting Ancient trove at risk in China -Julie Chao Learning to Play Fair in China -Bruce Einhorn A leg up in China - the hard way -Craig S. Smith Spirit of May 4 Movement Still Inspires Chinese Youth -Xinhua Chinese tourists out in force for seven-day holiday -China Daily First week-long Campaign Against Obesity in China -Xinhuanet
May 3, 2002
China marks Labour Day by honouring new capitalists But as China crowned the capitalists with an honour once reserved for state workers, the rights group Amnesty International accused the government of widespread human rights abuses in its handling of recent labour unrest at state firms. -Jeremy Page Is fossilized Chinese plant the oldest flower? -AP link Heart docs building Chinese center -Jodie Snyder Chinese authorities threaten to close schools for migrant children -CNA China, Australia Share Bid to Curb Trafficking in Women, Children -Xinhuanet

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