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BBC Newsnight 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....
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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 coveted fossil fuel. China's excessive growth, combined with its growing ...
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.
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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, especially Internet users, questioned with convincing evidence the authenticity ...
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 pushed for.
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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 new source of fashion talent: China.
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From CSR Asia:
China’s involvement in Africa has provoked much debate and discussion. These have usually been revolved around two core issues. On one side, China is viewed as the new colonizer out to exploit Africa’s natural resources, putting its own economic interests above environmental and human rights concerns. On another ...
Scott Greathead on China and the Darfur Issue
In this four minute-long video clip from an event at the Asia Society in New York on June 18th, 2008, corporate lawyer and human rights advocate Scott Greathead outlines China's stance on the Darfur issue, including Mia Farrow's "Dream for Darfur" campaign and her ...
Jonathan Ansfield reports in the Newsweek:
They had one amateur video, six peasants' corpses and more than 10 eyewitnesses to the siege a day before. But on June 12, after Beijing News journalists were first at the scene where freelance thugs brutally attacked and killed village farmers in Hebei province, no ...
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