China Economic ReviewAn uncomfortable truth has emerged as Chinese individuals and corporations have donated to earthquake relief efforts in record numbers: someone’s keeping score. Internet search engines have published lists ranking corporations by the amount of money each has given to earthquake relief. Those companies – both foreign and local – deemed too stingy have then been […]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing, and called on them to back international action on Zimbabwe and lessen party controls on the internet, Reuters and AFP reported. Rice, on the second day of her two-day visit, urged China – a permanent member of the […]
Taiwan began allowing 14 financial institutions to offer exchange services in renminbi on Monday as the island prepares to begin hosting an expected surge of mainland tourists in mid-July, state media reported. In addition to the banks, 40 of the island’s hotels and 15 department stores can now also buy renminbi in exchange for the […]
China said it will meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama for a second round of talks in early July, Reuters reported, citing state media. The first meeting between the two sides took place on May 4, though the second round, originally scheduled for June, was postponed in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake. China […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent a letter to the organizers of the Beijing Olympics chastising them over "political statements" made by a Chinese official about the Dalai Lama during the Tibet leg of the torch relay, AP reported. In a speech at the closing ceremony of the relay, Tibet Communist Party Secretary Zhang Qinglin […]