From CNNThe increasing global focus on renewable energy could not have come at a better time for Dr. Shi Zhengrong, an Australian citizen and Chinese-trained scientist who says he got into solar power by chance.Shi, 44, is the chief executive
From Wall Street Journal:Five weeks before the Olympic Games kick off in Beijing, China already has a new sports hero: tennis star Zheng Jie.Ms. Zheng, dubbed the "golden flower" by China's media, is set to make sports history as the
As reported in The New York Times:After the May earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province, China sent about 130,000 troops from the army, navy, air force and the Second Artillery Corps scrambling into the mountains in China's broadest deployment of its
Stephanie Clifford writes on the New York Times blog: More than 130 athletes have signed an open letter asking the international community to pressure Sudan for a truce during the Olympics, the activist organization Team Darfur announced at a news
Scott Shane at The New York Times reports:The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep
Mark Magnier at the Los Angeles Times reports on an infestation of locusts that is threatening the Olympics, set to open in just over a month:Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack
From Emmanuel Akyeampong, Professor of History at Harvard University, in The Zeleza Post:[...] Since the relationship between China and Africa is evolving, any analysis would be a snapshot in a point of time of a very complex and changing relationship.
From Howard W. French in the International Herald Tribune: [...] Western governments led by London and Washington look at Mugabe's rule and see such a clear-cut case of evil that they are at a loss to understand why the rest
BEIJING-China launched another attack on exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday even as his envoys and Chinese officials had a second day of secretive fence-mending talks.Zh...
Authorities of Beichuan County, the epicenter of the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, have ordered a second containment starting on June 26, allegedly to stop the spread of plague. No details of the plag...
BEIJING-Expected heavy rain and the risk of aftershocks mean lakes created in southwestern China after May's massive earthquake are still at risk of flooding, despite preventative work, a sen...
From Economic Observer Online:Chinese writer Wang Xiaofang, 48, kicked off his latest book signing tour in June. It is the third of his Beijing Office Director series, which launched him to his role as an icon of the "officialdom literature".Last
BBC's editor Paul Mason writes on his blog:I have just been sent an excerpt of what my colleagues in BBC Monitoring have gleaned today from Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency...."1600 on 28 June, the relatives of the deceased gathered
The Financial Times reports from Mianzhu, Sichuan on the pressures being exerted on families of children killed in shoddy schools in the Wenchuan earthquake:In tent cities that have sprung up throughout the region, soldiers carrying batons patrol the streets and
In the Washington Post, Andrew Nathan reviews "Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China," by Philip Pan, the former Post Beijing bureau chief:Part of the book's poignancy is that Pan has joined the chain
Jude Shao was released from a Shanghai jail on parole on Wednesday, a US embassy spokeswoman in Beijing, Diane Sovereign, told AFP. 'US ambassador Clark Randt has spoken to Shao by telephone, confirming and welcoming his release from prison,' she
BEIJING-French President Nicolas Sarkozy will get a cold public shoulder at the Beijing Olympics if he attends, Chinese state media said on Thursday in a sign of growing irritation over Sarkozy&...
China's aviation experts have started to discuss the feasibility of the country's large airplane manufacturing program, something which indicated it had entered an advanced stage of researching and manufacturing the large aircraft. ...
Chinese people do not want French President Nicolas Sarkozy's to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, according to the results of a survey published on Wednesday. The online poll conducted by Sina.com, was held in re ...
On July 2, the State Council of Information Office announced at a press conference that at present, the basic risk reduction work on the "quake lakes" has been finished. There were no injuries among personnel and no breaches in the
