BEIJING — China will launch an unmanned spacecraft early next month that will attempt to dock with an experimental module, the latest step in what will be a decade-long effort to place a manned permanent space station in orbit. In space, the Shenzhou 8 will carry out maneuvers to couple with the Tiangong 1 module...
Too risque. Too subversive. Too long. Or perhaps just too popular. All of the above can be capital offenses for Chinese television shows. In the last month, China’s broadcasting regulator has given the ax to some of the most popular programs for reasons that sound increasingly capricious. The State Administration of Radio, Film and...
October 26, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT By Jonathan Stearns and Helene Fouquet (For more on the European debt crisis, see EXT4.) Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to call Chinese leader Hu Jintao tomorrow to discuss China contributing to a fund European leaders may set up to bolster its debt-crisis fight,...
Enlarge image China to Adjust Economic Policy at ‘Suitable Time’ Raul Vasquez/Bloomberg Pedestrians walk by an art installation depicting a bundle of Chinese one-hundred yuan notes in Beijing on Oct. 19, 2011. Pedestrians walk by an art installation depicting a bundle of Chinese one-hundred yuan notes in Beijing on Oct. 19, 2011. Photographer: Raul...
Were NATO strikes on Gaddafi’s home town justified? Defence secretary, Liam Fox, sounded a little scripted in Misrata at the weekend when I asked him whether NATO’s airstrikes in Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte were staying within its remit to protect civilians in Libya. Blog Was South Africa right to deny Dalai Lama...
China Exclusive: Social anxieties and need for emotional catharsis instigate rampant online rumors BEIJING, Oct 26, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) – China Exclusive: Social anxieties and need for emotional catharsis instigate rampant online rumors By Xinhua Writers Hu Longjiang, Zhang Chunxiao People’s anxieties over social problems and their need for emotional catharsis instigate rampant...
