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China

From tainted exports to exchange rates, climate change to one-child policies, the Middle Kingdom often finds itself at the center of controversy

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July 2008
- China Falls Behind on Olympic Promises
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 8, 08 2:25 PM CDT
  
  With exactly a month to go before the Olympics, China has not delivered on promises to improve Beijing’s air quality or allow foreign journalists open access, the BBC reports. The government vowed to bring Beijing’s air up to WHO standards when bidding for the Games, but a BBC test showed the city over the pollution limit 6 days out of 7. More »
- Amid Selloff, Gold King Won't Flush His Throne
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 7, 08 2:53 PM CDT
  
  With gold prices hovering around $1,000 an ounce, one Hong Kong jeweler is melting down the shining palace he spent a decade building, unloading chandeliers and armored knights—everything but his 24-karat toilet, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I don't care if gold hits $10,000 an ounce," Lam Sai-wing says of the Lenin-inspired commode. "I'm not melting it down." More »
- 1,000 Tibetan Monks Jailed to Prevent Protests
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jul 7, 08 2:35 AM CDT
  
  The Chinese government has jailed more than 1,000 monks in an effort to prevent protests during the Olympic Games, reports the Times of London. Three large monasteries are empty near Lhasa, where hundreds of monks and supporters held protests amid gunfire in March. The government is holding the monks—many of them young ethnic Tibetans—in nearby prisons and detention centers, according to sources. More »
- China's Ballplayers Prepare for First Olympics
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 5, 08 11:19 AM CDT
  
  China’s Olympic baseball team, under the guidance of an ex-Major League manager, has some hurdles to jump in its first Olympics. After Mao Zedong banned the Western sport in China, it never drew many fans–so the team uses second-rate facilities and generally faces overwhelming odds against other teams. But the big leagues have spent millions to push the sport in China’s huge market, the New York Times reports. More »
- 100 Surnames for 1.3B People Causes Chinese Confusion
  
  newser | Radio Free Netherlands | Jul 5, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  The Chinese call them liaobaixing , or "old 100 names," and they are so partial to those 100 traditional surnames, Radio Free Netherlands tells us, that over 90% of the country's population of 1.3 billion share them. The profusion of Wangs, Chen, Lis and Wus creates powerful feelings of kinship, but also wreaks bureaucratic havoc. More »
- Feds Plan to Allow Foreign Accounting Rules
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 5, 08 7:17 AM CDT
  
  Federal officials are proposing to loosen accounting regulations, allowing American companies to shift to international standards that offer more latitude in reporting earnings, the New York Times reports. The move would make businesses more competitive, the administration argues, but it would also effectively exempt them from the investor-protection measures instigated after the collapse of Enron, critics note. More »
- Chinese Museums Confound Western Expectations
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 4, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  These days China feels "both older and newer than any place on the planet," writes New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. And nowhere is that tension more palpable than in the country's museums, which use antiquities from the millennia-old civilization in service of a rising world power. In a trip across China, the critic discovers a different approach to museum display. More »
- Historic China-Taiwan Flights Take Off
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 4, 08 6:16 AM CDT
  
  Commercial flights between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan resumed today for the first time in 60 years, with simultaneous flights landing at the Taipei and Shanghai airports, the BBC reports. China Southern Airline's chairman described the first flight to land in Taipei as "a sacred moment." The agreement to reopen the route, weekends only, is the result of improved relations across the strait since Taiwan's new president, Ma Ying-jeou, took office in May. More »
- Bush Will Attend Beijing Opener
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 4, 08 3:27 AM CDT
  
  The White House has confirmed that President Bush will attend the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics—and he's likely to have plenty of seats to choose from in the VIP box, reports the New York Times . Brit Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be in attendance. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was withholding his decision until after progress in ongoing Tibet talks—but now Chinese officials have told him not to bother. More »
- Pragmatism Dictates China's Religious Policy
  
  newser | Christian Science Monitor | Jul 2, 08 8:51 PM CDT
  
  China officially sanctions religious worship only at state facilities, but the Christian Science Monitor finds that plenty of wiggle room exists in the business world. It profiles one company whose Christian CEO is allowed to put up a church at every worksite. Why such accommodation in a formally atheist state? The company, SMIC, makes semiconductors, an area of production China is desperate to increase for its domestic electronics industry. More »
June 2008
- China Quake Beat the Odds
  
  newser | LiveScience | Jun 30, 08 4:06 PM CDT
  
  The earthquake that leveled parts of China’s Sichuan province last month was a geological oddity arising from usually inactive faults, LiveScience reports. The bizarre seismological coincidences behind the quake explain why no one was able to predict the event, which claimed 69,000 lives. More »
- 'Rape' Girl's Death Sparks Chinese Riots
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 29, 08 6:48 AM CDT
  
  Furious Chinese mobs claiming authorities are covering up the murder of a teenage girl yesterday stormed government buildings in southwest China. Several thousand people set fire to county and party buildings and police stations in Wengan county in Guizhou, the BBC reports. Authorities have ruled the death of the girl a suicide. But rioters charge she was raped and murdered by the son of a government official. More »
- 300M 'Chinglish' Speakers Can't Be Wrong
  
  newser | Wired | Jun 29, 08 5:52 AM CDT
  
  Some 300 million English speakers in China are altering the language in small but important ways—and may be creating their own dialect, Michael Erard writes in Wired . So-called "Chinglish"—which stresses unique syllables, drops dos and dids, and adds sounds for questions—has already been studied in a Hong Kong exhibit and is used widely in Singapore books and films. More »
- China's One-Child Policy Leads to Nation of Angry Men
  
  newser | New Republic | Jun 28, 08 7:43 PM CDT
  
  China’s got a big problem, one of its own making. The nation's one-child policy, now 30 years old, has resulted in a land of angry, testosterone-filled young men unable to find wives, writes Mara Hvistendahl in the New Republic . Finally worried about the world's biggest gender imbalance and its related spike in crime, the government is "vainly" seeking solutions—one campaign makes the point that having a baby girl isn't so bad, after all— but the problem seems almost certain to get worse in coming years. More »
- Global Econ Puzzle Awaits New President
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jun 27, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  Whether it's John McCain or Barack Obama, the next president will confront a global economic landscape unlike anything his predecessor confronted, write Robert Hormats and Jim O'Neill. In an op-ed for the Financial Times , the two Goldman Sachs executives explain that the new president's greatest challenge will be the rise of emerging economies, whose share of world GDP has doubled since George W. Bush took office. More »
- North Korea Hands Over Nuclear Data
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 26, 08 7:36 AM CDT
  
  The North Korean regime has submitted a long-awaited rundown of its nuclear program to China, 6 months after its due date. The report is expected to detail the nation's plutonium enrichment efforts, but will probably leave out details of its nuclear arsenal, reports the BBC. The White House responded by notifying Congress of its intent to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 45 days. More »
- Daring Architecture Energizes Beijing
  
  newser | New Yorker | Jun 25, 08 5:30 PM CDT
  
  Some of the world’s most adventurous architects have found a gung-ho partner in Beijing, the most noticable payoff being the soon-to-be completed CCTV headquarters—"a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper," writes Paul Goldberger in the New Yorker. Other creations, such as an ovoid peforming arts center dismissed as "the egg" by residents, come off as "silly and cumbersome," but such risks are worth it. More »
- China Reopens Tibetan Tourism
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 25, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  China is allowing foreign tourists to enter Tibet for the first time since March protests, sources tell the BBC. The Olympic torch’s smooth reception in Lhasa over the weekend means "Tibet is safe,” a Tibetan tourism director tells state media. "We welcome the domestic and foreign tourists." Tibet remains essentially off-limits, however, to foreign journalists. More »
- Chinese Menus Retranslated for Olympics
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 25, 08 11:05 AM CDT
  
  The Chinese government is issuing a list of revised names for some of the country's more obliquely translated dishes in preparation for the wave of tourists the Beijing Olympics will draw this August, the New York Times reports. A disconcerting plate of “husband-and-wife lung slices” will be rechristened as a slightly more appetizing "pork lungs in chili sauce" The bizarre "ants climbing up a tree" will now be a more straightforward “sautéed vermicelli with spicy minced pork” More »
- Axis of Wealth Shifting East
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 25, 08 2:43 AM CDT
  
  Nations once known for extremes of poverty—China, India and Brazil—are now producing more of the world's millionaires and super rich than ever before, according to a new study of the globe's wealthiest entrepreneurs. The US is losing ground to emerging markets when it comes to producing personal wealth, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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China on the Rise
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NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman traveled to China in the summer of 2005 to produce a seven-part series on the Asian nation%u2019s rise as a global economic contender and America%u2019s anxiety that China will overtake the United States as a superpower in the 21st century.

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China
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

China Mandarin Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo [central glorious people's united country; i.e., people's republic], officially People's Republic of China, country (2000 pop. 1,295,000,000), 3,691,502 sq mi (9,561,000 sq km), E Asia. The most populous country in the world, China has a 4,000-mi ...

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