The Beijing Olympic organizing committee, BOCOG, announced that the Olympic torch relay would be cut back after an outcry from internet users over the continuation of the relay as planned following the earthquake in Sichuan on Monday, AFP reported. On one online forum, a commenter called it "inhuman" that the relay was to go on […]
Category: Politics & Society
First views on the quake from economists and analysts we follow regularly. Here’s Deutsche Bank’s Jun Ma, greater China chief economist, and Moody’s Economy.com’s Sherman Chan, an economist who covers China for the research firm: Macro view Deutsche Bank: “At the macroeconomic level, our current view is that the impact is limited … The equity […]
Quick updates on the quake’s economic and financial impact from the news so far: 66 companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen were suspended from trading today, says financial wire XFN Asia. 45 of the companies are listed in Shanghai and the rest in Shenzhen. The Shanghai exchange said it could not contact the suspended companies […]
The Dalai Lama said on Monday that he expects his representatives to hold talks with officials from Beijing in the next month, the Wall Street Journal reported. The proposal for further talks, which the Dalai Lama said was made by the Tibetan side, comes after a one-day meeting earlier in May, which took place in […]
Human rights groups have called on China to apply diplomatic pressure on Myanmar to accept diplomatic aid in the aftermath of the tropical storm Nargis, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the country. Since the cyclone struck on May 2, foreign governments and agencies have pledged US$57 million in aid, most of […]