The Change Mariner: Category: Country

July 8, 2004

The Chinese Century

Interesting tidbits from cover story of The New York Times Magazine cover story, The Chinese Century: Because 12 percent of China's exports to the U.S. end up on Wal-Mart's shelves, and because Wal-Mart's trade with China accounts for 1 percent...

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June 13, 2004

Microsoft's Cultural Revolution

Newsweek: But there are signs of change: from cars to couture, more Western companies are starting to crack the Chinese code. The outlook is improving for Microsoft as well, owing in part to a 180-degree shift in strategy. On several...

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May 27, 2004

Asian Exporters Face Shortage of Cargo Ships, Containers

VOANews.com: Business is booming for Asia's exporters. That is good news for the world economy, but companies are facing a shortage of cargo ships and containers in Asia, and logjams on the docks in the United States. A line of...

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May 13, 2004

North Korean Crisis: China Shows The Way to Pyongyang

International Herald Tribune: Recently, China has begun playing a remarkably proactive role in trying to facilitate a resolution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. The behavior is in direct contrast to its discreet demeanor during the 1994 phase of the...

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In Pacific, a Red Carpet for China's Rich Tourists

The New York Times: Within a few years, their number in Guam could match the number of Japanese tourists, Governor Camacho announced before setting off from this capital city. That would be a huge change; last year almost three-quarters of...

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April 8, 2004

China Braces for Power Shortages

New York Times: China's galloping economic growth will continue to be dogged by widespread electricity shortages this year, a Chinese energy official has said. The deputy chairman of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, Song Mi, told a meeting of electricity...

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March 9, 2004

More Complex Carbs + More Exercise = Greater Weight Loss

WebMD: The thinnest people eat the most carbs, a four-nation survey shows. If you've been following the latest U.S. diet fads, that isn't what you'd expect. But the data come from an intensive, four-nation study of more than 4,000 men...

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March 2, 2004

China Poses Big Economic Challenge

New York Times: The welcome that China is offering to multinational companies and foreign investment has left many Western business executives, so critical of a closed Japan more than a decade ago, enthusiastically embracing China, its cheap work force and...

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February 27, 2004

Technology Jobs Moving To Asia

Yahoo! News: Technology companies are seeing a rebound in business, but top executives this week said any jobs added to meet growing demand will likely be in countries where labor is cheaper than the United States. Executives speaking at the...

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February 26, 2004

China To Stifle Online Speech

Los Angeles Times: China on Monday launched a major crackdown on one of the most vibrant parts of the Internet, the news discussion groups that have pushed the boundary of free speech. The new rules ban independent reporting that has...

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February 24, 2004

China Now Driving Japanese Exports

The Herald (UK): The latest upturn in Japan's economic fortunes is once more export led, despite a currency that is 10% stronger today than it was a year ago. However, the primary driver behind today's soaring demand for Japanese goods...

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Genetic Map Of Bird Flu Complete

China Daily: Chinese experts have completed the genetic map of the killer H5N1 bird flu virus and their next step will be looking at how the virus mutates. The mapping result was achieved by an avian disease research lab at...

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February 18, 2004

China Lifts Japanese Economy

New York Times: The Japanese economy grew at a robust 7 percent annual pace in the fourth quarter of 2003, the Cabinet Office reported. After weakness early in the year, the strong showing last quarter by Japan, the world's second-largest...

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February 16, 2004

China Rethinks The Peg Tying Yuan and Dollar

WSJ.com (registration required): Pressures building within China's hard-charging economy are driving Beijing to re-examine the Chinese currency's iron-like tether to the U.S. dollar, with a loosening looking more and more like a matter of when, not if. The U.S., the...

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February 15, 2004

Explosive PC Growth in China

Xinhuane (China): After a year of explosive growth in China, the world's number two personal computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday it hoped to triple its overall growth rate this year. The company may even be able to push its...

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February 8, 2004

Europe Left Behind As U.S. Focuses on China

Guardian Unlimited (UK): The reason for the masterly inactivity has nothing to do with the increased strength of the financial markets vis-�vis central banks since the mid-1980s, and everything to do with the changing balance of power within the G7....

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Chinese Chic Fashion Scores Over Feminism

The Times of India: Dressed in the unisex blue Mao tunic, Chinese women hold aloft half the sky. That myth flies out of the window the moment you step into mainland China. The normally tedious wait through immigration seems all...

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February 2, 2004

Changing Red Envelopes In China

Xinhuanet (China): Traditionally, adults wrap money in red envelopes - called hongbao in Chinese - on the eve of the lunar New Year, which they give to their kids. The century-old tradition is still followed in most local households, as...

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January 31, 2004

China Clones Rare Wild Animal

Mercury News: BEIJING - China announced Friday that its scientists had cloned a Siberian ibex, a threatened mammal that dwells in the crags of central Asia, in a feat sure to heighten debate over whether cloning can help reconstitute endangered...

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January 21, 2004

Intel Outlines Broadband Wireless Vision

MSN Money: Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the Internet, an Intel Corporation executive explained today at the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) annual symposium. Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of...

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China Now Second In Oil Consumption

Financial Times: China's fast-growing economy has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest consumer of crude oil after the US, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Chinese government. Latest IEA estimates say China consumed 5.46m barrels...

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January 18, 2004

Is China the Next Bubble?

New York Times: But even by Chinese standards, things have been moving at a blistering pace of late. Official statistics, which the government tends to smooth so as not to indicate big booms or busts, show that the economy expanded...

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January 16, 2004

Chinese Go Online in Search of Justice Against Elite Class

New York Times: Guo Liang, a scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who studies the role of the Internet in Chinese society, said the case was the latest example of the Net's growing influence. He said Internet protests...

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January 13, 2004

China Poses Trade Worry as It Gains in Technology

New York Times: Today, the principal international standard-setting organizations have representation from many countries, including China, but American interests often carry the greatest influence. "We are accustomed to the United States being the biggest market and the technology leader, so...

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January 12, 2004

American Web Sites Speak the Language of Overseas Users

New York Times: The National Football League will roll out a Chinese-language version of its Web site this month in yet another move by American entertainment and media organizations to capitalize on overseas Internet audiences. The new N.F.L. site, which...

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January 7, 2004

China Announces New Bailout of Big Banks

New York Times: Desmond Supple, an economist at Barclays Capital, wrote in a research report on Tuesday that the banks would be able to write off loans as uncollectible and make corresponding accounting entries against their equity without converting the...

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January 5, 2004

Creation of Chinese Brands

Xinhuanet (China): China will create one or two global brands among the world's top ten in the coming decade, thanks to the country's rapid development and its soaring production and marketing capabilities," Jennifer Gordon, chief executive of Australia-based Capital Group,...

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January 3, 2004

Japan and China Battle for Russia's Oil and Gas

New York Times: Both economies are hungry for raw materials, especially energy - Japan because it has almost none of its own, China because its economic boom has fast outstripped what once were adequate domestic supplies. Both want to limit...

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January 1, 2004

Car Sales Surge in China

ChinaDaily.com: Chinese consumers are buying cars at an breakneck speed, spurred on by new government policies that allow banks to lend on vehicles and, for some of them, by a desire to impress the neighbours. More than 3.91 million of...

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December 23, 2003

China Moves to Protect Property

The New York Times HENZHEN, China, Dec. 22; China's national legislature moved to amend the Constitution on Monday to protect private property rights, the first time the Communist Party has formally protected private wealth since taking power 55 years ago....

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December 19, 2003

Shnenzen Port Volumes Surge

Business Times Asia: China's 2nd busiest port is expected to maintain 40% growth this year (SINGAPORE) Stronger than anticipated growth at China's second busiest container port, Shenzhen, will see it trail mainland front runner Shanghai only slightly and overtake South...

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December 6, 2003

Miss World Crowned in China

Yahoo! News: Nineteen-year-old Miss Ireland, Rosanna Davison, daughter of singer Chris de Burgh, was crowned Miss World 2003 on Saturday in Communist China's first international beauty pageant, an event that would have once been branded a heretical display of western...

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December 4, 2003

China's Power Supply Not Developing at Same Speed as Its Economy

BBC: The state Xinhua news agency said the shortfall was caused by insufficient coal supplies and a seasonal drought, which limits the production of hydro-electricity. Shopping centres and department stores will have to turn off their heating for two hours...

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China Power plants hunger for coal - but need more efficient markets

xinhuanet: Seven major electricity producers in China have recently appealed for state intervention to solve their acute coal shortages, which has gravely hampered normal electricity production. In the petition, filed to relevant departments of the central government, the seven enterprises...

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China to Become the World's Fourth Largest Trader, Surpassing France

HinduTimes: China is poised to become the world's fourth largest trader, following US, Japan and Germany, the state media reported on Friday. Export and import volumes of China have totalled about $800 billion since January, Vice Minister of Commerce Wei...

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China Pushes Its Own WiFi Standard

SeattlePostIntelligence: China has ordered equipment makers to use the country's own encryption standards for wireless networks, ensuring stronger government control and giving domestic manufacturers a slight respite from some foreign competition. The new rules, which took effect Monday, apply to...

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December 3, 2003

With U.S. Busy, China Is Romping With Neighbors

New Yotk Times: China's buying spree and voracious markets provide the underpinning, he said, for the peaceful coexistence that everyone wants. Contrast this with the dour message from the United States. Congratulations, said President Bush to the Indonesians during his...

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November 29, 2003

China party repackages Mao as a rap artist

TelegraphIndia: In a desperate appeal to China�s fashionable youth, the Chinese Communist Party has approved the repackaging of Mao Zedong as a rap artist. Mao�s favourite exhortation � the Two Musts � is to be set to music and released...

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November 28, 2003

PlayStation braves Chinese waters

BBC: The PlayStation 2 console is being launched in China next month, despite concerns about widespread piracy. Sony chairman Hiroshi Shoda said the company had to face the reality that piracy could not be totally eliminated. More than 60 million...

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China Pushes EVD As Alternative to DVD

CBSNews.com: If I were an entertainment industry executive, I'd worry less about college students sharing files on the Internet and more about what's happening in China. The Chinese government just announced a government-funded project to develop an alternative to the...

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November 27, 2003

Condoms appear on Chinese TV to Address Potentially Huge Aids Problem

BBC Condoms have made a rare appearance on Chinese state television as part of an official campaign to highlight the dangers of Aids. The 30-second film, broadcast across China, showed a young couple, with a voiceover explaining the importance of...

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November 23, 2003

Chinese TV firm poised to bypass Sony

Rutland Herald: Only two decades ago, it was a small electronics workshop in a warehouse. Now, it�s an industry powerhouse poised to displace Sony Corp. as the world�s No. 1 television maker. The growth of TCL is a homegrown success...

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November 20, 2003

China to unify organic food standards

China Daily: China is trying to set a unified organic food standard to improve the authentication of such products. A press release from the organization committee for the China AG Trade Fair (ATF) noted that China now has many authentication...

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November 17, 2003

New monthly record set in China space launches

ChinaView: China's record space launches from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15 indicate the nation's improved capability in technological development and manufacturing in the space field and space project management, a senior space expert said Monday. Zhang Qingwei, general manager of...

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November 15, 2003

China: The Cultural Revolution Will Be Televised

WorldPress.org: Cut off from government funding but still run by the state, China Central Television (CCTV)�the country�s only national network�has run a completely uncensored foreign television series for the first time. Band of Brothers, co-produced by Tom Hanks and Steven...

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China's Internet Revolution

Online Journalism Review: The rapid spread of Internet cafes, wireless phones and online chat has given the Chinese unprecedented freedom of expression and access to "unofficial" information. But the government recently seized control of the Internet cafes and is making...

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November 14, 2003

India, China conduct joint naval exercises for first time

PakTribune: Joint exercises by Indian and Chinese Navies began in the East China Sea Friday, a watershed event that could pave the way for enhanced defence cooperation between one time military rivals. This is the first joint military exercise between...

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China posts record trade surplus in October

MENAFN: China posted a record trade surplus last month as exports grew at their fastest pace in five months, Bloomberg reported. The customs bureau said that the trade surplus widened to $5.74 billion in October, compared with $289 million in...

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November 13, 2003

Joi Ito's China Scenarios from Japan Society Roundtable

Joi Ito.com: It appears that there are two risk scenarios for the ascension of China as a super-power. One risk is that it doesn't happen and a failure in the Chinese economy would cause a global crisis. The other risk...

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November 12, 2003

Online games a huge market potential in China

People's Daily: An official with the Ministry of Culture said Saturday that China's online game industry has enormous market potential. Liu Yuzhu, director of the Cultural Market Department, was speaking at a workshop of the First China International Exposition on...

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