Baidu, the leading Internet search engine in China, has seen its traffic decline and stock price slump since November, when a state-run television broadcast criticized its practice of displaying paid search results higher than some free ones, according to Beijing-based research f …
"So far, despite a large number of samples from poultry being collected and laboratory tested, no evidence of infection in poultry has been found to explain these human cases," Vincent Martin, FAO's senior technical adviser on bird flu in China, said.
Poll suggests the public relations results of the most expensive Olympic Games in history weren't positive. China still has a negative image and little has changed. Meanwhile, Obama's election has improved the image of the US in China, this BBC poll says.
Now China looks like Latin America, according to experts quoted in this Times report. The situation is deteriorating and unrest fears mentioned by Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, in his trip to England are followed by reports like this one.
A bull stock market? Anyone? TheStreet reports Chinese securities are one the rise, together with the economy. They urge investors no to lose this opportunity and throw cash into a market that shows signs of growth.
Asia's growth forecast slashed in a half for 2009, China will grow 6.7% and the South Korean economy will contract 4%, said IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
China's work-related deaths decline, as a result of improvements in safety standards. The country has been working on policies and crackdowns on dangerous industries for some time, and these seem to have produced results.
High unemployment in China isn't new, this time it's only cyclical. In the 90's many state-owned enterprises were shut down and millions were left jobless. During that period there were no challenges to the Party's rule.
A panel of top-level experts concludes the risk for China now is unemployment especially among migrants and university graduates.
In a state of terror, the most terrorized is the state.
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will visit Asia first.
Robert Mugabe, Zibabwe's president and the man responsible for thousands of deaths under his watch, reportedly visited Hong Kong together with wife and daughter. Bona, his college-age daughter, studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Around 20% of all Subsaharan cellphones come from one building in Hong Kong, according to this report. Go inside a meet a wide range of characters that occupy a large part of the Africa-China technological trade.
Do you know someone that knows someone in India? Well, that may just be about to change...
Japan's industrial output decreased by almost 10% in December compared with the previous month. Unemployment in Japan rose to 4.4% in December, an increase of half a percent on November.
North Korea steps ups rhetoric, in an effort to give itself more negotiating space with the new US administration, says this BBC report. Ignoring all previous agreements may be a source of increased naval skirmishes in the de-facto sea border.
Hong Kong export growth down, together with region. Telecommunications was one of the industries that took the biggest hit.
The May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province, that left 90000 dead or missing, was triggered by a large dam near the epicenter, according to experts quoted by the China Digital Times.
A real estate company in China predicts that prices in the sector will fall for the next 2 years. According to this report, there is less investment because the market is waiting for further measures to stimulate construction.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson defended her country for censoring Obama's inauguration speech on state media in China. She argued it was their right to exercise an editorial right.
Yes but no. After greater internet freedoms for the Beijing Olympics China vows to apply ever stricter controls to online voices.
Ching Cheong, the Singaporean journalist that spent years in a Chinese jail for alleged espionage, comments on the Macao gaming industry and links gambling to democracy in China.
Government officials in Beijing are reported to have held a secret meeting with leaders from banned protestant churches, according to ABC Australia.
The year of the Ox in the Chinese lunar calendar has started. As usual people gather in temples and historical areas in Beijing and throughout the country.
2009 is a year of anniversaries in China. One of them is the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet, after a failed uprising against the then Communists. The government confirms its fears of further rioting this year, after last year's incidents in Tibet.
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