Category: Politics & Society

CCTV broadcast a programme saying that Osama bin Laden had actively sponsored separatists in Xinjiang and had run training camps for them in northern Afghanistan. It claimed that about 100 activists trained by the al-Qaeda organisation had returned to Xinjiang and had carried out terrorist attacks that had killed 162 people. The report also said […]

Contracts will soon be awarded for projects related to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and foreign consulting and construction companies are keen to get a piece of the action. Foreign companies are scrambling for the single biggest business opportunity ever offered by China: the 2008 Olympic Games. Since Beijing won the bid last July to host […]

Shenzhen Metro has awarded a Yn10.5bn contract to Rockwell Automation and Beijing Hollysys to install an environmental control and monitoring system during construction of the 22km first phase of the Shenzhen subway line, reported South China Morning Post. The US-based Rockwell Automation has supplied automation control systems for commuter railways in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand […]

The second summit meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) was held in St Petersburg in June. During the meeting, the presidents of the six member nations – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – adopted a charter that formally constituted the SCO as an international organisation with a secretariat and agreed to set […]

Nanjing has become a thriving base for a clutch of modern artists, drawn by the city’s relaxed atmosphere and its cultural and historical roots. Until early summer, Nanjing is often veiled in a mist of drizzle. The contours of the city are indistinct, the high-rise buildings seem dwarfed and the people blurred. This damp ambiguity […]