Friday 27th January, 2012
China spends $79 mn from lottery on poor
A total of 500 million yuan (around $79 million) from China's lottery earnings has been used to financially support underprivileged school students and teachers, the education ministry has said. At ...
Hundreds battle forest fire in China
More than 800 firefighters, policemen and villagers were battling to put out a raging forest fire that broke out in the mountains in southwest China. The inferno broke out around 4.30 p.m. Friday ...
Apple launches probe into unsafe factory conditions in China
Technology giant Apple has launched a probe into a report that said factories in China that manufactured its products employed child labour and had 24-hour working days and unsafe conditions, a ...
MJ immortalised in cement by his kids outside iconic Hollywood theatre
China News.NetLate pop legend Michael Jackson has been immortalised in cement, when his three children stamped the singer's glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in ...
Companies have no choice but to be in India: Ashwani Kumar
China News.NetIndia and China will emerge as the only destinations for companies seeking business as Asia will lead the world economic growth in the coming decade, India's Minister of State for Planning Ashwani ...
Apple probes China factories
The TelegraphShanghai, Jan. 27: Apple has launched an investigation into practices in its factories in China that include child labour, 24 hour working days and unsafe conditions at the plants which manufacture ...
Chinese site rents a fiance
Turkish Daily NewsThanks to Taobao - the Chinese version of eBay - and the inventiveness of a Chinese entrepreneur, single Chinese females can rent a boyfriend to take home for the lunar New Year, according to an ...
10,000 people suffer due to manganese tainted tap water in S China town
SifyAt least 10,000 people suffered a shortage of drinking water in a South China town on Wednesday following the detection of excessive manganese in the tap water. "The city government of Lufeng ...
Chinese swoop on 16 dairy farms in New Zealand
The IndependentNew Zealand's government approved the sale of 16 dairy farms to a Chinese developer, whose total investment in the project will be more than 100m.The Prime Minister, John Key, defended the ...
Reporters' Roundtable: Apple's China problem
CNet. This amazing success is built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of factory workers, almost all of them in China, who assemble iPhones, and other products from other vendors, in giant, ...
Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution
New York TimesBut faced with an Internet-led brush fire of criticism, the edifice of environmental propaganda is collapsing. The government recently reversed course and began to track the most pernicious measure ...
Zhandetan Journal: Teaching Tibetan Ways, School in China Is Unlikely Wonder
New York TimesZHANDETAN, China - There are many marvels at the end of the punishing dirt road that skirts the edge of this stark white glacier high on the Tibetan plateau: thousands of fluttering crimson prayer ...
Hollywood VS. China: Why The President's Anti-Western Stance Won't Matter
Hollywood ReporterThe dominance of western brands in China has long been a sore spot for the country's leaders. You can't walk through a Chinese commercial district without bumping into an Apple or Prada ...
China: An Efficient Manufacturer Of Pollution
Web Pro NewsIn the 1970′s we started outsourcing production from the United Staes to overseas facilities that could meet production demands faster and cheaper. After over forty years of outsourcing, one ...
Apple iPad Factory Violations in China: Tim Cook Says, 'Not Who We Are'
IBTimesThe poor working conditions at Foxconn have been exposed for some time; even Apple published a report about some of its own labor violations. But Mike Daisy's first person account of Foxconn ...
Africa: New AU Headquarters Marks Strong China-Africa Ties
All AfricaTowering above the Ethiopian capital, cloaked in urban smog, the new Chinese-built African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa is a bold symbol of China's rapidly changing role in Africa. Once ...
Taiwan official sentenced in KC to time-served
Richmond Times-DispatchKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Taiwan representative accused of underpaying and overworking two Filipina housekeepers at her suburban Kansas City home was sentenced Friday to time served and immediate ...
China Ex-Im Bank lends $41M for Bahamas project
Miami HeraldNASSAU, Bahamas -- China's state-owned Export-Import Bank has agreed to finance a new port and a bridge in the Bahamas, the second major infrastructure project backed in recent months by the ...
China - Authorities urged to refrain from using excessive force against protesters
IFEXNorpa Yonten, Protester (Human Rights Watch/IFEX) - New York, January 27, 2012 - The Chinese government should immediately investigate shootings of Tibetan protesters by security forces, open ...
Researchers unearth more Chinese links to defense contractor attacks
ComputerworldResearchers with Symantec have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors. ...
Taiwan official deported, sentenced to time served
The Seattle TimesA Taiwan representative accused of underpaying and overworking two Filipina housekeepers at her suburban Kansas City home was sentenced Friday to time served and immediate ...
Chinese New Year haul at Cairns Airport
Cairns.com.auPIG trotters, chicken feet, fungus-growing caterpillars and duck eggs are among the hundreds of kilograms of prohibited items seized from Chinese visitors by biosecurity officers at Cairns airport ...
China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions
Canada.com-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid ...
Apple catches flak in China supply chain saga
CNet(Credit: Apple) The maker of iPads and iPhones is hardly alone among tech companies that rely heavily on Chinese factories under scrutiny for labor practices. But it has become the ...
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