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EU Grant Opportunity for Training and Research in China
Editor’s Note: This grant appears to be a superb opportunity for “cultural immersion,” followed by hosted research. Click the link below to go to the EuropeAid page. On the left frame, select “By Country” from the drop down box. Then click the “Open” and “Grants” check boxes. The grant program will [...]
CNBC Interview: The Real China Price and Olympic Shutdowns
Last week, I was asked onto CNBC to discuss Inflation in China, energy price hikes, and the Olympic shutdown were the topics discussed.
I apologize for my lack of enthusiasm, and a few mumbled words…..but it was really early in the morning and the monitor was on a 5 second delay.
The intellectual weak point of the [...]
Who Is To Blame For Fat Chinese Kids? Who Will Be Blamed?
3 weeks ago my staff and I celebrated the opening of the new Wujiang Road food street. It was a great day as we had grown tired of all the other food, but when we got down there we realized that we should have eaten first and then gone down there.
3 Coffee shops - [...]
Chinese Pirates in Spanish Waters
Spanish Police Crack Down on CD/DVD Piracy Operation Involving Chinese Labor
Spanish police have disrupted an organized criminal syndicate based in Madrid that was producing counterfeit CDs and DVDs on an industrial scale. The group operated burners that could produce 150,000 CDs and DVDs each day, worth an estimated €600,000 daily (US$ 920,577) or €219 million [...]
Chinese Corruption and School Construction — No Longer A Suitable Media Topic
Here is Caijing magazine’s attempt to explain in English the causes of the collapse of school buildings during the Sichuan earthquake. Yes, construction standards existed, goes the article, but weren’t implemented. That English language translation — intended to be the magazine’s face to the world — appears to be a compilation of several [...]
Direct Flights from Taiwan to Mainland China
In the mid-1980s, Taiwanese businessmen, at least those of a cautious nature, were too frightened to participate in the triangle trade （三角貿易）. That business moved product under the radar from Taiwan into China, when direct trade was prohibited with major consequences for Taiwanese (imprisonment and fines) and Chinese (who knows? execution, probably).
An [...]
Chengdu Investment News: July 17
1. US Secretary of State Rice visited Dujiangyan
In response to the invitation of Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leading a delegation of over 60 members arrived in Chengdu on June 29th, and moved on to Dujiangyan for a visit, which was severely hit by the Wenchuan Earthquake. Rice is [...]
First-hand Account from Chengdu
Editor’s Note: Tony (Yixing) Zeng, a Canadian student, has graciously allowed us to reprint his email below, originally sent to a friend from an internet cafe in Chengdu just after the first earthquake. Major foreign media have covered this story upside and down, with the American National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel and Melissa Block [...]
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