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- Chinese celebrity gossip appearing overseas
- Matt Zeller: Obama Handily Wins Third Debate
- Luxury brands resort to using online retail as distribution channels
- Starbuck eats into the breakfast market in China
- Gloomy times for Zhejiang's solar power firms
- China aggressively promotes TD-LTE technology
- Industrial Production Slows in China, Inflation Rises
- China’s Unknown War Against Tibet Documented in New Book
- China will become no. 1 in logistics by 2016
- What other companies Longfor: Wu Yajun's secret of success
- Shaping ceramic dreams in Jingdezhen
- Maker Of '47 Percent' Video Weighs In On Final Debate
- China's ancient villages disappearing at 80-100 per day
- Taiwan's retired civil servants should not get bonuses: poll
- Taiwan sees unusually large number of black-faced spoonbills
- Dozens hurt in big Hainan township power plant pollution protest
- Thousands of birds killed in migration seasons in central China
- Chinese Tourists in Japan Ease Tensions
- Police Beat Back Coal Plant Protesters in Hainan Province
- Don't expel Bo, Chinese leftists urge parliament
| Chinese celebrity gossip appearing overseas Posted: 23 Oct 2012 05:02 AM PDT Chinese celebrities have been popping up in the international magazine scene. Movie stars Li Bingbing and Fan Bingbing appeared in the Italian magazine L'uomo Vogue, with writer and blogger Han Han al... | ||
| Matt Zeller: Obama Handily Wins Third Debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 04:57 PM PDT Tonight's third Presidential debate featured a battle between Obama the Professor-in-Chief vs. Romney the student-who-didn't-do-the-reading. As someone who has ADD, even I had trouble keeping up with many of Governor Romney's non-linear arguments. Read more: Jordan, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Lebanon, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Middle Class, Third Debate, President Obama, Mitt Romney, F-22, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Iran, Presidential Debates, Presidential Debate, Drones, Veterans, Osama Bin Laden, Barak Obama, Levant, Iraq, Israel, Predator Drones, Syria Violence, China, Syria, Politics News This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Luxury brands resort to using online retail as distribution channels Posted: 23 Oct 2012 04:30 AM PDT Sourcing products has become a major problem for e-commerce companies, particularly e-commerce firms selling luxury goods. To deal with the problem, Italian global luxury goods brand Salvatore Ferraga... | ||
| Starbuck eats into the breakfast market in China Posted: 23 Oct 2012 04:22 AM PDT Joining the ranks of other fast-food brands, including KFC, McDonaldss, and Kungfu, Starbuckss has rolled out breakfast series in its 700 outlets in China as of October 2012. Analysts note that the ... | ||
| Gloomy times for Zhejiang's solar power firms Posted: 23 Oct 2012 04:22 AM PDT Solar power companies in several provinces across China have been hit by a slowdown in the industry, including those in Jiangsu, Jiangxi and the city of Quzhou in the eastern coastal province of Zheji... | ||
| China aggressively promotes TD-LTE technology Posted: 23 Oct 2012 04:18 AM PDT The Chinese government has formulated plans to fast-track the country's TD-LTE deployment, which will help meet the current need for rapid development of the industry, Liu Lihua, deputy minister of th... | ||
| Industrial Production Slows in China, Inflation Rises Posted: 22 Oct 2012 07:13 PM PDT  An industrial area as seen from the Western Mountains on Sept. 13, 2012 in Beijing, China. In September, China's CPI increased 1.9 percent over last year. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) China's stagflation, that is, high inflation and low growth, may create social turmoil if it drags on, according to experts on the Chinese economy. On Oct. 14, headlines across China highlighted new data from the National Bureau of Statistics, showing an increase in the consumer price index (CPI) and a decrease in the producer price index (PPI). Dr. Frank Xie, who teaches business in the University of South Carolina Aiken told Sound of Hope, "A tumbling PPI indicates that the productivity of China's enterprises and industries is declining. The increase of the CPI is not surprising. In the past six months, the CCP seemed to have been under-reporting the CPI. The CPIs published by the Chinese government are very different from that published by non-governmental institutions. The government intentionally lowers the reported CPI in order to leave room for printing more currency and to promote future stimulus plans." Xie estimated that if the current economic conditions continue, pressure could build. He said, "The unemployment rate may increase after the 18th Party Congress because we know that actually the CCP has given orders that enterprises cannot fire people before the Congress … it is possible that China may experience major turmoil."
As for the current rising prices and stagnation of industrial development, Xie said, "Since the global economic crisis started in 2008, China's stimulation policy to print money and large scale investment in construction has created inflation. When we look at it now, because of China's sluggish internal demand, with the decrease of exports and large scale, repetitive and wasteful investments, the economy has entered a phase of decline and stagnation. It has hit a hard landing. The CCP has no way to revive the economy. It can only stimulate it by printing more money. While they print, they are also afraid that stimulating inflation will incite unrest among the people, so in reality it is in a situation where it can neither move forward nor withdraw." Some experts are not optimistic about approach of printing more money. Cheng Xiaonong, former aide to reformist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, told The Epoch Times that, to stimulate the economy the CCP has printed money to the tune of 200 percent of GDP. Economic commentator Caoan Jushi, also the Vice Chairman and CEO of Pan-America Capital, Inc. told The Epoch Times that China's overall economy is sagging. He said there is a consensus that China economy is sputtering, which will possibly lead to a hard landing. Caoan also said China is having a real estate bubble similar one that affected Japan from 1986 to 1991. "Some data show that the total value of Beijing real estate has reached 180 trillion yuan (about $28 trillion); according to Fed's June 11, 2009 report, the total value of American real estate in the first quarter of 2009 is $17.9 trillion; in other words, all the American real properties could be acquired with Beijing real estate values." In September, China's CPI increased 1.9 percent over last year. Within that figure, food prices increased 2.5 percent, and living prices (rent, utility, etc.) increased 2.3 percent. At the same time, the national PPI dropped 3.6 percent, reaching a new 35 month low. Yuanpei Industry Information, a major industry information provider in China, attributed the decline in China's producer price index (PPI) to a decrease in economic activity, and a failure to curb the economic slowdown. China's second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth was 7.6 percent. The third quarter GDP is yet to be announced, but some experts, including consultant Chen Hewu from Adfaith Management Consulting in Beijing predicted that the downward pressure of China's economy is still dominant and the new economic data will not show improvement. Yi Gang, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) said at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Oct. 14 that the central banks of many countries are promoting the policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). He said the PBC will decide upon a monetary policy based on China's conditions. Chen Hewu said he believes information recently leaked information by PBC's management team hints that the regime's monetary policy may be leaning towards QE. A Oct. 16 report by Caijing, a well-known financial magazine, also predicted that after the 18th Party People's Congress in November, a new round of economic stimulus policies will be released between November of this year or March of next year. Related ArticlesThe Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 19 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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| China’s Unknown War Against Tibet Documented in New Book Posted: 22 Oct 2012 06:45 PM PDT  A hada is hung on the tree below the Potala Palace on June 20, 2009 in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. (Feng Li/Getty Images)  The Communist Party's greatest military victory is also its least documented and publicized, according to a new book by historian Li Jianglin. Based on collected historical documents, confidential files, and visits with hundreds of elderly Tibetans, Li's book When the Iron Bird Flies, documents the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) military operation in Tibet from 1956 to 1962. The military campaign ravaged the Buddhist culture of the Tibetan people and resulted in the loss of an estimated 350,000 lives. For decades, this war has been carefully evaded and covered up and the historical data left incomplete, writes Li, a Tibetan historian with family ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that invaded Tibet. Further, Li believes the killing is the origin of the current unrest in Tibet "Many incidents such as the Lhasa incident in 2008, the Lhasa incident in the late 1980s, and the Tibetan self-immolations now, are actually the after-effects of that war. It continues to date," said Li in an interview with New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television.
Chairman of the Tibet Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dawa Tsering said the Tibetan's concept of reincarnation led some Tibetans during protests in 2008 to say: "We are the Tibetans you killed in 1958." The war has been inscribed into the Tibetans, Dawa said. Li describes in her book the simplicity of the Tibetan people, who, having lived upstream of the Yellow River, had never seen a Han Chinese prior to the PLA invasion. "The People's Liberation Army fired along the bank. Those Tibetans who crossed the Yellow River did not know to hide from the shooting. While warplanes were bombing, the Tibetans were simply looking and talking about the aircraft," Li writes. It is not just Tibetans who were innocent, Li told NTD. Decades ago when there was no killing, no land reform, and no political movements waged by the CCP, the rural Chinese were also very simple people. Li believes that the CCP has been using violence and promoting atheism to suppress both the Han and Tibetan peoples, and destroying their belief at the same time. She writes that the invasion of Tibet and the mass killings served to build up the CCP's power, while in mainland China the CCP used the same kind of violence to seize political power. Prior to the Tibet invasion, the CCP has already destroyed temples of various religions throughout China, writes Li. Li said, "class struggle sees it as reasonable to kill and to struggle, whereas the compassionate Buddhist ideology opposes killing. These two are completely the opposite." The Dalai Lama has repeatedly said that the suffering of Tibetans is not the fault of the Chinese, but that of the Chinese communist regime. Li quoted the Dalai Lama as saying, "We have never given up our confidence in the Chinese." Li said, "Most Chinese know nothing about what happened in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the 1950s. I do not quite believe that the Sino-Tibetan problem is good wording. I think the problem is between the Communists and Tibet, not the Hans and Tibetans." When the Iron Bird Flies took Li one and a half years to write. The title comes from the prophecy of Guru Padmasambhava from the eighth century AD: "When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the world and the Dharma will come to the land of the Red Man." The author, Li Lijiang, a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi, graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages, Fudan University in Shanghai in 1982. She has masters degree from the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Shandong University, American Jewish History at Brandeis University, and Library Science at Queens College in New York, respectively. Her interest in Tibet issues started in 2004, and since 2007, she has extended her research into the history of Tibet's exiled, visiting 17 Tibetan refugee settlements in India and Nepal, and nearly 300 refugees from Tibet. She has published a number of articles on the issue of Tibet and the Tibetan community-in-exile. Her book, 1959: Lhasa!—How Dalai Lama Left, contributed to the reconstruction of historical facts about the 1959 exile of the Dalai Lama. Related ArticlesThe Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 19 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. | ||
| China will become no. 1 in logistics by 2016 Posted: 23 Oct 2012 03:26 AM PDT China will become the world's largest logistics market by 2016, with a market scale of 1.1 trillion yuan (US$176 billion) based on an annual growth rate of 16%, reports Shanghai-based First Financial... | ||
| What other companies Longfor: Wu Yajun's secret of success Posted: 23 Oct 2012 03:10 AM PDT Longfor Property is a fast growing black horse in the Chinese realty market in recent years and its success has enabled Wu Yajun, chairperson, to assume the title of China's richest woman, boasting a ... | ||
| Shaping ceramic dreams in Jingdezhen Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT Like many ceramics artists in Jingdezhen, China's "porcelain capital," Ali gets fired up when he talks about his ceramic dreams. Ali was born in 1948 in Nanchang, the capital city of east China's Jia... | ||
| Maker Of '47 Percent' Video Weighs In On Final Debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT BOCA RATON, Fla. -- When Mitt Romney came to Boca Raton -- the site of tonight's debate -- last May, he regaled a private fundraiser with a tale from ... Read more: Video, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney 2012, Sensata, 47 Percent Videomaker, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, 47 Percent Video, Sensata Technologies, Mitt Romney 47 Percent, 47 Percent, China, Politics News This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| China's ancient villages disappearing at 80-100 per day Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT China is fast developing into the world's second largest economy, with the urbanization rate of the country over 50%. The advent of such development has signaled the vanishing of traditional villages... | ||
| Taiwan's retired civil servants should not get bonuses: poll Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT About 68% of the Taiwan public supports the idea of abolishing year-end bonuses for retired civil servants, amid reports that the Labor Insurance Fund will go bankrupt in 2027, according to a poll re... | ||
| Taiwan sees unusually large number of black-faced spoonbills Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT An unusually large number of black-faced spoonbills have been migrating to the wetlands of Taiwan's Tainan this year, according to a report released by Taijiang National Park on Sunday. The report sh... | ||
| Dozens hurt in big Hainan township power plant pollution protest Posted: 22 Oct 2012 05:22 PM PDT Hainan, China – Thousands of residents in the coastal town of Yinggehai, Hainan, demonstrated at the weekend against plans to build a large power plant nearby, with dozens injured and more than 100 detained by police, according to witnesses. Several hundred set off for the tourist resort of Sanya on Friday and Saturday and blocked a bridge next to the municipal government offices, after local officials refused to see them. In Yinggehai, more than 1,000 armed police and dozens of police vehicles arrived in the town Friday night. Officers used tear gas to disperse the crowds, who stormed government buildings and fought back using bricks and stones, witnesses said. As well as surrounding Yinggehai's government office on Friday and Saturday, demonstrators also blocked some central areas in Sanya, one of the nation's most popular tourist destinations, known for its beaches and expensive property. A Yinggehai government official who refused to give her name said yesterday that the riot had been brought under control, while the Sanya government refused to comment. Mainland media have remained silent on the protests, and internet censors have blocked searches for "Yinggehai" on microblogs. /South China Morning Post | ||
| Thousands of birds killed in migration seasons in central China Posted: 22 Oct 2012 05:08 PM PDT
Hunan, China – A recent film named "A massacre on the millennium bird trail" has revealed some astonishing facts of birds killed during their migration seasons. The 12-minute documentary shot in China's central Hunan Province attracted attention from both environmentalists and public. A photographer from the film said sometimes there were more than 150 tons of birds captured or killed in a single village alone. There are billions of birds migrate each year around the world, among all 8 major migratory routes, 3 are in China. In fall, birds from Siberia, Inner Mongolia and Northern China fly to South Asia though the "millennium bird trail" in Hunan and Jiangxi Province where the only path for their trip. Li Feng, the photographer, said local villagers capture birds to improve their food on dinner table; hobby hunters came from all over China to enjoy the easy hunting under "birdy rain" with their shotgun and beer; and the last group is the worst. Professional hunters will occupy the top of a mountain and make profits from selling birds to restaurants. Some of them even hunt after the birds in season from north to south. Li Feng described him witnessed a large SUV filled with birds. These booties will quickly be distributed to local restaurants or loaded on refrigerated trucks transporting to other places. Li said there were similar huntings even worse in China, although they have not been exposed yet. Local county governments of Xinhua, Xinshao and Longhui in Hunan Province have signed a convention of bird protection in the effort to restrain illegal hunting and protect birds in the area. FMN | ||
| Chinese Tourists in Japan Ease Tensions Posted: 22 Oct 2012 05:30 PM PDT A cruise by 1,500 Chinese tourists from Shanghai, China to Japan, on Saturday has sparked a furious debate among Chinese netizens. It might also signal China-Japan relations are on the mend. The tourists who arrived on the Costa Victoria in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on Oct. 20, were warmly welcomed by the locals and government officials. This is the largest Chinese tour group traveling to Japan since the sovereignty dispute over the islands erupted in September, sparking attacks on Japanese cars and businesses in China.
Some scholars believe the trip signals tensions between China and Japan have eased and China's senior leaders are trying to "maintain stability" by allowing the tour group to visit. By the regime can calm the fury over the islands, it is better set for the 18th National Congress that will see the next generation of leaders take their places on the regime's ruling Standing Committee. The Congress is scheduled to convene on Nov. 8. Since the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan) controversy erupted again in September, China has boycotted traveling to Japan. The tour sparked some Chinese netizens to denounce the patriotism of those that traveled. "Is it a traitors' tour?" reads a comment that went viral on mainland China's Internet. A considerable portion of Internet users called the 1,500 visitors traitors and called the Costa Victoria a cruise for traitors. But other netizens had the opposite opinion, "It is people's freedom to travel!" "If not to the civilized and democratic country Japan, do you want to go to thugs-filled Xi'an city and eat gutter oil?" One netizen speculated, "The group is mainly composed by civil servants, and members of the Party and the Youth League!" "I have been saying that only the idiot civilians are against Japan and patriotic!" Kiichi Matsuki, head of the Yatsushiro Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hoped that the visit of this Chinese tourist group could thaw the frozen relations between Japan and China. At the same time, Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada said on Oct. 21 that the Diaoyu Islands "nationalization" problem was attributed to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government purchasing the islands. It was the first time he publicly acknowledged the dispute between the two nations over the sovereignty of the islands. Relaxing Tensions | ||
| Police Beat Back Coal Plant Protesters in Hainan Province Posted: 22 Oct 2012 04:45 PM PDT  Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner condemning the use of coal, on a dry riverbed near one of the Beijing's biggest coal-fired power plants on July 28, 2009. This year more protests against a coal power plant took place in the South China town of Yinggehai, Hainan Province. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) Thousands of riot police beat back residents in the South China town of Yinggehai, Hainan Province, in yet another protest against a coal power plant, which has been the site of protests since the beginning of the year. Police have locked down the town, and more armed police and military reinforcements have been mobilized to restrain the protest with tear gas, beatings with electric batons, and arrests. Residents told NTD Television reporters that about half the town came out to protest the official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the power plant on Oct. 18. They said police met them with an anti-riot force which extended from the town to the seashore of this island province and then fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse them. Mr. Li, a Yinggehai resident, said two were arrested and another two were injured. Police prohibit photo taking or video recording and phone conversations are monitored, said another resident, Mr. Ren. Residents told the reporter that classes are suspended, shops are closed, and police have closed roads.
Environmental concerns fuel the protests about China Guodian Corporation's Southwest Power Plant Project. Residents, fearing health and pollution problems caused by power plant emissions, point out the plant is very close to residences. In early 2012, residents began to protest the construction of the plant, and in April 2012 nearly 10,000 residents took to the streets in a protest which police put down with tear gas, pepper spray, and military vehicles. At that time, officials promised that the construction of the plant would be halted, but the residents doubted the truth in the statement. China Guodian Corporation is one of China's largest state-owned power generating groups, with nuclear, hydropower, and wind generation divisions. The corporation has encountered problems in the past with environmental compliance and other requirements. Related ArticlesThe Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 19 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. | ||
| Don't expel Bo, Chinese leftists urge parliament Posted: 22 Oct 2012 04:21 PM PDT "Please announce to the people evidence that Bo Xilai will be able to defend himself in accordance with the law." . 
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