Tutti i temi: Cina

31.07.2006 China has the world's fourth largest economy but it now believes it needs a Harry Potter or "Da Vinci Code" to solidify its role as a world power. To do so, China is creating "cultural industries" in order to influence the world through language, art, music, film, and all other things cultural.

22.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.

22.07.2006 from Treehugger blog:
China is starting work on what will eventually be the largest wind power farm in the world.

21.07.2006 from chinadialogue:
'The world cannot sustain China and other third-world countries and current first-world countries all operating at first-world levels.'

20.07.2006 In the year it stopped receiving food aid from the World Food Programme (2005), China emerged as the world's third largest food aid donor, according to the International Food Aid Information System.

12.07.2006 Chinese blogger and documentary filmmaker Hao Wu has been released after nearly five months in detention.

12.07.2006 It was not only Mumbai that was rocked by explosions on Tuesday, even the capital of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, was rocked by grenade explosions that killed six tourists. The grenades used in the attack were found to have Chinese markings.

11.07.2006 from Chinadialogue:
'China’s technicians are evidently still stuck in the 'copying' stage, and do not dare to innovate,' says Yongfeng Feng.

10.07.2006 European Parliament president Josep Borrell has been urged to raise the cases of three imprisoned Chinese cyber-dissidents during a seven-day visit to China, in order to demonstrate that a resolution about online free expression will be followed up by concrete action.

07.07.2006 Kiinan ammatillisen keskusjärjestön puheenjohtaja esittää ay-organisaation määräämistä pakolliseksi Kiinassa toimiville ulkomaisille yrityksille. Asia on hänen mukaansa hoidettava muuttamalla ay-toimintaa säätelevää lakia. Hän sanoi, että joidenkin yritysten tiukasta vastarinnasta huolimatta työ tavoitteen saavuttamiseksi jatkuu.

06.07.2006 China, the world's main producer of traditional and herbal medicines, has launched an international project to modernise the sector.

03.07.2006 Two leading environmental protection groups call for conservation measures to protect the world's largest and highest plateau in the wake of the opening of a railway through the Tibetan Plateau.