Beijing Public Security Bureau has drawn up a draft 10-point plan for ensuring security during the 2008 Olympics, South China Morning Post said. The plan envisages that more than 90,000 security personnel will be deployed during the games and provides for the training of special units, including an anti-terrorist unit. In a separate announcement, a […]
Category: Politics & Society
At least half a million Hong Kong people, about one-sixth of the SAR's workforce, are employed on the mainland, Beijing Youth Daily said. More than half of them were working full time, while the remainder crossed the border to work for at least six months of the year. Most worked in the cities of Shenzhen, […]
A package of amendments to the law governing relations with the mainland was submitted to the Taiwan legislature in August. The proposed changes include lifting the ban on advertising mainland products in Taiwan and allowing business visits by mainland Chinese employed by multinational corporations. Announcing the package, Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Mainland Affairs Council, […]
Kenichi Mizuno, one of the three parliamentary secretaries of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, resigned his post after the minister Yoriko Kawaguchi ordered him not to make a visit to Taiwan, the Financial Times said. Mizuno said he had planned to tell the Taiwanese that the island was "an important partner" for Japan, but his minister […]
A delegation of officials from the North Korean central bank is in China studying commercial banking reform, according to the Financial Times. They arrived in August for three months of on-the-job training in China's big four state-owned commercial banks, learning how to operate a commercial banking system. Their host, the People's Bank of China, denied […]