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WTO Says China Unfairly Restricting U.S. Music, Films : NPRA Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali Hussain Sibat's popular call-in show was broadcast on a satellite TV channel in Arabic around the ...
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Britain blames China over 'farcical' climate talks - Yahoo! NewsBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a handful of countries of holding the UN climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome of the negotiations. While China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his government had played an "important and constructive" ...
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If China is going to build on its growth, it's will need an industrial policy that doesn't hold it back - By Alexandra Harney | Foreign Policyhe common perception of China relying on industrial policies to make its economy successful is just an illusion," says Fan He, assistant director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "If industrial policy works, it's mainly at the local level." ...
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Why China Won't Rule the World | Newsweek Issues 2010: Is That All? | Newsweek.comConventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For example, most pundits agree that the Great Recession helped China more than any other state. At first glance, this claim seems obviously true. Unlike the United States and the other major Western powers, which saw their economies plummet ...
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China pays web surfers to find porn: report - Yahoo! NewsChinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday. However, the censors' latest campaign against content that harms public morality appears to have encouraged Internet users ...
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Chinese 'Mulan': New Movie Has Live Actors, No Disney - TIMEAlthough it was too American for audiences in China (where it performed abysmally), Disney's Mulan was a smash hit in the rest of the world, where it reeled in $300 million. That didn't sit well with some Chinese, including Guo Shu, executive president of Starlight International Media Group, an ...
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Vanke Sees China Bubbles - WSJ.comNationwide, "things haven't risen to a property bubble yet," said Mr. Wang, who founded his company 25 years ago and has built it into the biggest housing developer in one of the world's fastest-growing housing markets. But "in individual cities, and in some of the main cities, there is clearly ...
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The Next Phase of the Crisis Is Beginning with an Eye on China -- Seeking AlphaThere is a surreal quality to the action in the financial markets this holiday season. After emerging from what seemed to be a societal collapse in the fall of 2008, the government induced liquidity has bathed the markets in gains and seems to be in the process of healing all economic wounds. ...
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Beijing Plans to Continue Its Stimulus Next Year - WSJ.comBEIJING -- China's top leadership said it will keep policies to support growth in place through 2010, despite concerns about the effects of more powerful stimulus on the world's fastest-growing major economy. The ruling Politburo of China's Communist Party met Friday to discuss economic policy ...
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Chinese classic scroll painting sells for record $24 million | Lifestyle | ReutersChinese classic scroll painting sells for record $24 million HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - A rare, classical scroll by a Ming dynasty artist fetched $24.8 million at a Beijing sale, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at auction, in a positive sign for the downturn-stricken ...
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