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(BBC) – Police in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, say they have arrested two suspects believed to have produced millions of the fakes in dirty facilities. The fakes are thought to have gone on sale across China since 2013. Chinese authorities have warned against buying discounted products, saying there could be...
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(Japan Post) TOKYO —Japan has decided not to support a draft U.N. resolution urging the start of negotiations in 2017 to outlaw nuclear weapons, a senior Japanese official and other sources close to the matter said. Japan, the world’s sole victim of atomic bombings, will consider either abstaining or...
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(BBC) Serving tea and receiving guests may not be everyone’s dream job, but it was a good enough prospect to make nearly 10,000 people apply for one receptionist job. China’s highly competitive civil service recruitment process recently saw a record-setting 9,837 applicants for a post as “China Democratic League...
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(Global Voices) – A police report leaked last week from China’s Xinjiang province describes Internet censorship circumvention tools as “second class violent and terrorist software.” #China blames #VPN, other #internetcensorship technologies for terrorism in the country http://t.co/4weKE8Ng5c — Mikhail Doroshevich (@infopolicy) March 9, 2014 The leak raises serious questions...
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FAM: Note that the following Bloomberg excerpt reflects the opinion of the author. (Bloomberg) After many years of 7- to 10-percent growth, economies tend to overheat, creating bubbles that burst. That’s what happened to South Korea and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. But China’s economy keeps plugging along...
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(China Tech News) – Two years ago, it looked like China’s Xiaomi was on the top of the world as one of China’s upstart smartphone leaders. But with tight margins and little differentiation among Android-based phones, cheaper phones have overtaken Xiaomi in China. #China Xiaomi Quality Fail -Ten Percent...
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(The Epoch Times) A huge explosion that killed at least 14 people and injured over 150 has seen the Chinese regime’s heavy-handed moves to marginalize the incident, which fell on the sensitive opening day of an important Communist Party meeting. The explosion took place in Xinmin County in northwestern...
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(Screen Daily) Mechanic: Resurrection landed top at the Chinese box office in the week of Oct 17-23, taking $24.60m from its three-day opening weekend. The crime thriller, headlined by Jason Stratham, has already earned twice as much as its predecessor in 2012. After ruling the chart for two weeks,...
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(Japan Times) – A group of former U.S. diplomats held closed-door talks at the weekend with senior Pyongyang officials, even as international efforts gather pace to further isolate North Korea, diplomatically and economically. The two-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur, which was confirmed by the South Korean and U.S. governments,...
(BBC) – Police in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, say they have arrested two suspects believed to have produced millions of the fakes in dirty facilities. The fakes are thought to have gone on sale across China since 2013. Chinese authorities have warned against buying discounted products, saying there could be...
(Japan Post) TOKYO —Japan has decided not to support a draft U.N. resolution urging the start of negotiations in 2017 to outlaw nuclear weapons, a senior Japanese official and other sources close to the matter said. Japan, the world’s sole victim of atomic bombings, will consider either abstaining or...
(BBC) Serving tea and receiving guests may not be everyone’s dream job, but it was a good enough prospect to make nearly 10,000 people apply for one receptionist job. China’s highly competitive civil service recruitment process recently saw a record-setting 9,837 applicants for a post as “China Democratic League...
(Global Voices) – A police report leaked last week from China’s Xinjiang province describes Internet censorship circumvention tools as “second class violent and terrorist software.” #China blames #VPN, other #internetcensorship technologies for terrorism in the country http://t.co/4weKE8Ng5c — Mikhail Doroshevich (@infopolicy) March 9, 2014 The leak raises serious questions...
FAM: Note that the following Bloomberg excerpt reflects the opinion of the author. (Bloomberg) After many years of 7- to 10-percent growth, economies tend to overheat, creating bubbles that burst. That’s what happened to South Korea and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. But China’s economy keeps plugging along...
(China Tech News) – Two years ago, it looked like China’s Xiaomi was on the top of the world as one of China’s upstart smartphone leaders. But with tight margins and little differentiation among Android-based phones, cheaper phones have overtaken Xiaomi in China. #China Xiaomi Quality Fail -Ten Percent...
(The Epoch Times) A huge explosion that killed at least 14 people and injured over 150 has seen the Chinese regime’s heavy-handed moves to marginalize the incident, which fell on the sensitive opening day of an important Communist Party meeting. The explosion took place in Xinmin County in northwestern...
(Screen Daily) Mechanic: Resurrection landed top at the Chinese box office in the week of Oct 17-23, taking $24.60m from its three-day opening weekend. The crime thriller, headlined by Jason Stratham, has already earned twice as much as its predecessor in 2012. After ruling the chart for two weeks,...
(Japan Times) – A group of former U.S. diplomats held closed-door talks at the weekend with senior Pyongyang officials, even as international efforts gather pace to further isolate North Korea, diplomatically and economically. The two-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur, which was confirmed by the South Korean and U.S. governments,...