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- NPC reps call for relaxation of China's one-child policy
- Critics doubt Wahaha's plan to develop city complexes
- China’s ‘Two Meetings’ Different This Time Around
- National Taiwan University moves to top 60 global ranking
- NBA to hold preseason game in Taiwan
- 90% of Chinese netizens approve increasing defense budget: survey
- China and Russia to launch joint military exercises in June
- French brandy seized by Chinese customs for excessive plasticizers
- Breach-of-duty crimes on the rise in China: official
- Top China Stories from WSJ: Migrant Workers, WeChat, Android Too Dominant?
- Chinese banks see record forex surplus in January
- Average visitor spending in Taiwan posts double-digit fall in 2012
- Traders hard hit by Hong Kong's baby formula purchase restrictions
- Toxic chemical found in Shiseido sunscreen imported to Qingdao
- Missing Baby Killed by Car Thief
- China’s One-Child Policy May Be Relaxed Province by Province
- Top Official Fired in Jiangsu Province
- North Korea faces 'exceptional' UN sanctions over nuclear tests, says US
- US proposes 'toughest sanctions yet' against North Korea
- David Beckham praised for commitment to Chinese football development – video
| NPC reps call for relaxation of China's one-child policy Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:26 AM PST China's slowing population growth means its controversial one-child policy is no longer necessary, according to He Youlin, a representative of southern China's Guangdong province at the National Peopl... |
| Critics doubt Wahaha's plan to develop city complexes Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:14 AM PST Waow Plaza was opened by Wahaha Group, China's leading foodstuff and beverage firm, in late 2012 as its first step in foraying into the retail business. The venture seems to have stumbled out of the s... |
| China’s ‘Two Meetings’ Different This Time Around Posted: 05 Mar 2013 08:10 PM PST For years, the annual "Two Meetings" in China has been the legislative equivalent of a dead cat bounce, but not this time, writes CRT political analyst Russell Leigh Moses. |
| National Taiwan University moves to top 60 global ranking Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:58 AM PST National Taiwan University's ranking in a global survey of university reputations has improved to the top 60, according to results of the survey announced by British magazine Times Higher Education on... |
| NBA to hold preseason game in Taiwan Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:58 AM PST Taiwanese-American NBA star Jeremy Lin will be coming to Taiwan again in October, this time for the first NBA preseason game being held in the country since 2009, the promoter said Tuesday. Bros Spor... |
| 90% of Chinese netizens approve increasing defense budget: survey Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:58 AM PST About 90% of Chinese internet users support increasing the nation's defense budget, while around half hope that China will invest resources to build the People's Liberation Army Navy's first nuclear-... |
| China and Russia to launch joint military exercises in June Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:58 AM PST China's North Sea Fleet and Russia's Pacific Fleet plan to launch a joint naval exercise over the Sea of Japan this June, reports the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party ... |
| French brandy seized by Chinese customs for excessive plasticizers Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:26 AM PST At least three major French spirit brands have been barred from entering China after Chinese authorities found excessive plasticizer residue in their products, reports our Chinese-language sister pape... |
| Breach-of-duty crimes on the rise in China: official Posted: 06 Mar 2013 03:26 AM PST China's procuratorates filed 34,326 cases regarding investigations of crimes involving the abuse of power in 2012, a 5.4% rise year on year, the deputy procurator-general of the Supreme People's Proc... |
| Top China Stories from WSJ: Migrant Workers, WeChat, Android Too Dominant? Posted: 05 Mar 2013 06:53 PM PST China looks to tackle its controversial household registration system, Google accused of exploiting dominance of Android in China to discriminate against local companies, WeChat maker Tencent training its sights on the U.S., and more. |
| Chinese banks see record forex surplus in January Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:58 AM PST China's foreign exchange regulator announced Monday that Chinese banks' total foreign exchange surplus from bank-to-client transactions reached a record high of US$92.6 billion in January. Chinese in... |
| Average visitor spending in Taiwan posts double-digit fall in 2012 Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:54 AM PST Taiwan saw a record number of visitor arrivals last year, but per capita inbound visitor spending declined by nearly 12% year-on-year, according to government statistics released Monday. Each inboun... |
| Traders hard hit by Hong Kong's baby formula purchase restrictions Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:50 AM PST New limits imposed by Hong Kong authorities on the purchase of baby formula on March 1 has dampened the business for formula traders, who were reselling milk powder bought in Hong Kong in China for a ... |
| Toxic chemical found in Shiseido sunscreen imported to Qingdao Posted: 06 Mar 2013 02:46 AM PST Sunscreen products manufactured by Shiseido, a major Japanese cosmetics company, have been found to contain a toxic chemical, reports the Chinese-language Beijing News. Seven batches of Shiseido's s... |
| Missing Baby Killed by Car Thief Posted: 05 Mar 2013 06:30 PM PST Jilin, China – Jilin Police launched a city-wide manhunt on March 4, a two months old baby was abducted together with a stolen vehicle. After a 24-hour searching, the suspect surrendered himself to the police on March 5. The baby, however, was found buried in snow on the roadside after strangled to death, the suspect admitted. Jilin Police issued a notice on March 4:
 Local residents light candles for the missing baby. Source: XinWenHua Paper After the issued notice, Changchun City government dispatched over 3,500 police officers of traffic, patrol, and SWAT teams to look for the baby. Many taxi drivers and private car owners also joined the searching. According to the father of the missing boy, he drove to his own convenient store nearby a school around 7 am with his son on board. Since the inside was still too cold, he left his son in the running car to keep the baby warm as he went in to turn on stove. The mother said their baby was still asleep when arrive at their store. "There were a lot students came in to buy stuff, we were a bit busy. We left him in the car for about 10 minutes, but we found our car stolen when we came outside." She cried, "I just want my boy back, I won't blame him (suspect)." Jilin Police informed the progress of the case on the night of March 5, saying the suspect has been arrested and the baby's body was found buried in snow.
Local Changchun media also reported Zhou was once sent to labor camp of indecency. Zhou strangled the baby as he kept crying in the car, and then buried the body in the snow on the roadside. FMN The post Missing Baby Killed by Car Thief appeared first on Free More News. |
| China’s One-Child Policy May Be Relaxed Province by Province Posted: 05 Mar 2013 04:53 PM PST  A woman cycles pass a billboard encouraging couples to have only one child, along a road leading to a village in the suburb of Beijing, 25 March 2001. A Party official recently proposed moving to a two-child policy in some regions. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images) The Chinese Communist Party's strict family planning policy and its enforcement are currently under discussion at the regime's largest annual meetings in Beijing. Representatives of the National People's Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp legislature, in mainland China have recommended allowing a second child per family, and the representative from Guangdong Province has for a third time requested that the one-child policy be abandoned. Ma Xu, a high-ranking official from the Chinese Communist Party's National Population and Family Planning Commission, said on March 3 that some provinces may start exploring a two-child policy, most likely the three north-east provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, according to official media reports. Ma said that China's birth rate is low, so the authorities are considering gradual adjustments. He said the second-child policy should initially be applied to first-tier cities, which are more developed and more populated.
NPC representative He Youlin, principal of Zhongshan Memorial Secondary School in Guangdong Province, again challenged the one-child policy, and suggested allowing a second child. He believes this would help alleviate pressure on the labor force and retirement age, as well as allowing a more harmonious family life and healthier development of children, Yangcheng Evening News reported. He told Southern Metropolis Daily that by the end of 2008, the elderly population of China had increased to 169 million, accounting for 12.8 percent of the nation's total population, and is increasing by an average of nearly 10 million per year, according to civil affairs department statistics. By 2020, the number of people over 60 will account for 16.7 percent of the total, climbing to 31.1 percent by 2050, which would be much higher than the world average. If every couple only has one child, the pressure would be great by the time they reach retirement age, and many families could end up without even one child, he said. Such only children, once married, would have to support four elderly parents, and the next generation of only children would have to support eight elderlies after marriage, which he said was "extremely unreasonable." One expert believes that China's population will not explode, even if the family planning policy is completely lifted. Professor Liang Jianzhang of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University said, "If we do not adjust the policy now, we may lose the last chance to solve the issue of our aging population, which may lead to a series of serious economic and social problems," Southern Metropolis Daily reported. Liang compared China to countries with a similar degree of economic development and urbanization, such as South Korea and Taiwan in the 1990s. The two countries had an average birth rate of 1.5 children per woman during that period, and Thailand currently has the same rate. Vietnam, which is less developed than China, only has birth rate of 1.8 children per woman, he said.
Translation by Quincy Yu. Research by Hsin-Yi Lin. Written in English by Cassie Ryan. Read the original Chinese article. The Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 21 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter. |
| Top Official Fired in Jiangsu Province Posted: 05 Mar 2013 04:40 PM PST  Former Chinese Communist Party head Hu Jintao and former Party head Jiang Zemin raise their hands during the closing session of the 18th Party Congress on Nov. 14, 2012, in Beijing. Hu visited Yancheng City, Jiangsu to deal with a Falun Gong matter in December, according to a source. (Feng Li/Getty Images) The Party secretary of the eastern city of Yancheng, Zhao Peng, has been removed from his positions, according to a report by state mouthpiece Xinhua on March 1. At an executive meeting for Yancheng municipal officials in Jiangsu on Feb. 28, the provincial vice minister responsible for staffing positions declared that Zhu Kejiang will take over Zhao Peng's posts in the provincial Party committee, standing committee, and as secretary. It is unusual for a municipal secretary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to be dismissed. Normally, barring major mistakes, officials retire at the age of 60—and Zhao is only 58. Often, upon retirement, provincial cadres are offered posts in one of the regime's official advisory or representative bodies. The fact that Zhao was removed entirely from all positions makes the case unusual. In 2009, during Zhao's time as secretary, two sons of a senior Yancheng official were severely persecuted for practicing the meditation discipline Falun Gong.
The brothers sought justice within the higher ranks of the Communist Party, and threatened to expose details of corruption among officials, attracting the attention of leaders in Beijing. Former Party leader Hu Jintao personally visited Yancheng in January 2012—the trip was, according to an insider, in order to investigate the case. Provincial staffing minister Yang Xinli, a member of both the Jiangsu provincial Party committee and the standing committee, spoke of his high expectations for the incoming officials, according to a report by state mouthpiece People's Daily. Yang also acknowledged the accomplishments of outgoing fellow cadre Zhao Peng, adding that the changes were made after "some serious contemplation by officials at the provincial committee." Related ArticlesEditor's Note: When Chongqing's former top cop, Wang Lijun, fled for his life to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu on Feb. 6, he set in motion a political storm that has not subsided. The battle behind the scenes turns on what stance officials take toward the persecution of Falun Gong. The faction with bloody hands—the officials former CCP head Jiang Zemin promoted in order to carry out the persecution—is seeking to avoid accountability for their crimes and to continue the campaign. Other officials are refusing to participate in the persecution any longer. Events present a clear choice to the officials and citizens of China, as well as people around the world: either support or oppose the persecution of Falun Gong. History will record the choice each person makes. Translated by Frank Fang. Research by Ariel Tian. Written in English by Cassie Ryan. Read the original Chinese article. The Epoch Times publishes in 35 countries and in 21 languages. Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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| North Korea faces 'exceptional' UN sanctions over nuclear tests, says US Posted: 05 Mar 2013 10:48 AM PST US-China move to punish North Korea for nuclear tests would impose some of UN's toughest sanctions ever, says Susan Rice A US-China draft resolution to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test would impose some of the toughest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations, the US ambassador, Susan Rice, said on Tuesday. Rice circulated the draft to security council members, telling reporters that "the breadth and scope of these sanctions is exceptional" and that they would further impede the growth of North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programmes. "We hope for a unanimous adoption later this week," she said. The fourth sanctions resolution would for the first time target illicit activities of North Korean diplomats and illicit banking relationships and cash transfers, Rice said. The resolution pledged to take further measures if North Korea carried out another missile launch or nuclear test, she added. Hours before the UN meeting, Pyongyang threatened to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean war, as tensions on the Korean peninsula soared again over the nuclear test in February. Any fresh international sanctions are certain to infuriate North Korea, which has claimed the right to build nuclear weapons to deter alleged US aggression. Citing the US-led push for sanctions, the Korean People's Army supreme command on Tuesday warned of "surgical strikes" meant to unify the divided Korean peninsula and of an indigenous, "precision nuclear striking tool". China is North Korea's closest ally, but it has indicated it is concerned about Pyongyang's behaviour. Hours after North Korea carried out its third atomic test on 12 February, all 15 council members approved a press statement condemning the explosion and pledging further action. The swift, unanimous response from the UN's most powerful body set the stage for a fourth round of sanctions. North Korea's neighbours and the west condemn Pyongyang's efforts to develop nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States as a serious threat to northeast Asia's delicate security and a drain on the precious resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people. North Korea says its nuclear programme is a response to US hostility that dates back to the 1950-53 Korean war, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Korean peninsula still technically in a state of war. North Korea said Washington and others were going beyond mere economic sanctions and expanding into blunt aggression and military acts. guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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| US proposes 'toughest sanctions yet' against North Korea Posted: 05 Mar 2013 10:38 AM PST UN security council urged to pass resolution drafted by US and China that would target bank accounts of senior regime figures The UN security council is considering imposing some of the toughest sanctions yet conceived against North Korea as senior diplomats from the 15 council member nations began discussions on a draft resolution framed by the US and China that would seek to deflect Pyongyang from its belligerent nuclear path. Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, said the draft sanctions resolution that she circulated to the security council was exceptional in its "breadth and scope". It would hit senior figures within the North Korean regime where it hurts them most – their pockets – by targeting for the first time illicit banking activities and movements of capital, she said. In a statement delivered to the security council, Rice said the sanctions would target the "illicit activities of North Korean diplomatic personnel, North Korean banking relationships, illicit transfers of bulk cash and new travel restrictions". She said the sanctions would "significantly impede North Korea's ability to develop further its illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs … and demonstrate clearly to North Korea the continued costs of its provocations." Should the resolution be agreed, it would impose the fourth round of sanctions on the North Korean regime. It will now go before diplomatic and technical experts from the relevant security council member countries for detailed fine tuning, before being rushed to a vote as early as the end of this week. Rice said the proposals would ensure that "North Korea will be subject to some of the toughest sanctions imposed by the United Nations". Western diplomats are relatively confident about the passage of the sanctions through the security council because of Beijing's willingness to support it. China is the traditional ally and major trading partner of North Korea's, but it joined the US and other western powers in expressing its alarm and displeasure after the regime carried out its third test of a nuclear device on 12 February. The underground test was said by Pyongyang to be focused on the development of a "miniaturized" nuclear weapon that could be attached to missiles able to reach the US. Nuclear weapons experts, however, remain skeptical that North Korea has succeeded in achieving that capability. The leadership of Kim Jong-un has responded with trademark bluster to the threats of tightened sanctions. Hours before the UN security council convened, the regime threatened to nullify the armistice that has held between North and South Korea since 1953. The three-year Korean war has never technically ended, only suspended, and the threat to stop the truce has been a much-deployed – though not as yet followed-through – intimidation. On Tuesday, the supreme command of the Korean People's Army said it would carry out "surgical strikes" to reunify the peninsula, and made reference to a "precision nuclear striking tool". The regime's anger has been piqued not just by the impending sanctions but by the latest US military exercises with South Korea. The drills happen every year, prompting an annual ritual of recriminations and counter-recriminations. The new US secretary of state, John Kerry, delivered a direct message to Kim from Qatar. He emphasized that Washington's preference was "not to brandish threats to each other; it's to get to the table". He said it was "very easy for Kim Jong-un to prove his good intent here. Just don't fire the next missile, don't have the next test. Just say you're ready to talk." The hope within the security council is that by affecting the personal finances of senior members of the Kim regime, sanctions might dissuade them from pursuing the nuclear tests. guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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| David Beckham praised for commitment to Chinese football development – video Posted: 05 Mar 2013 08:09 AM PST IMG senior vice president and head of global football development Jeff Slack says David Beckham has committed an 'enormous amount of time' in his new role
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