From Wall Street Journal:As young designers, Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent dueled in a 1954 contest that helped put both on the fashion map. This year, the competition has been resurrected, and the finalists reflect the emergence of a
Thirteen Chinese government officials were sacked earlier this week in connection with a set of fabricated photos, which they had claimed to be proof of a highly endangered tiger. The punishment came nine months after members of the Chinese public,
From Washington Post:Envoys for the Dalai Lama ended more than two days of talks with Chinese government officials Thursday with no immediate reports of substantive progress on easing tensions in Tibet, something the United States and other foreign governments had
From AFP:The inaugural flight of the first regular direct service between mainland China and Taiwan in almost six decades has landed at Taoyuan international airport, outside Taipei.The China Southern Airlines Airbus A330, piloted by airline president Liu Shao-yong, touched down
From the Washington Times:[...] Events in Africa shape a new quest for untapped resources, namely oil. All that talk about "blood diamonds" only shrouds a more important dialogue on the fierce competition between the U.S. and China for the dangerously
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
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
From AP:China's Communist Party boss in Tibet delivered a fresh attack on the Dalai Lama Wednesday, even as envoys of the region's exiled leader met for a second day with Chinese officials for talks aimed at easing tensions following anti-government
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