China & NASDAQ D)( Chinese Gas Protestors. China protest worsens in Guangdong after villager death. 14 December 2011Last updated at 19:16 By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing New protests flared after the death of the village representative in custody A stand-off between villagers and the authorities is continuing in southern China's Guangdong province.
Police have blocked roads leading to the village of Wukan. Local people are trying to keep them out. The row - over village land taken by the local government - has been simmering for some time. A new wave of protests broke out several days ago after the death of a villager while in police custody. It is not easy to get information about what is going on in the area. But it appears that villagers have held a series of protest rallies over recent days involving hundreds of people. A video of one demonstration, posted online, shows angry protesters shouting slogans such as "Down with corrupt officials". "We will continue our fight until the end," one man told the BBC.
China eyes UK infrastructure investment to boost growth. 28 November 2011Last updated at 03:32 Mr Lou said infrastructure spending was key to boosting global demand China Investment Corporation (CIC), is keen to invest in infrastructure development in the UK and other developed countries.
Lou Jiwei, the head of CIC, wrote in the Financial Times that the fund was looking to participate in public-private-partnerships in the UK. The British government has been seeking to upgrade infrastructure in a bid to boost growth. CIC is China's main sovereign wealth fund. "CIC believes that such an investment, guided by commercial principles, offers the chance of a "win-win" solution for all," Mr Lou said. Boosting demand. U.S. and China Conclude 22nd Session of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. Obama Meeting With Chinese Premier Amid Disputes. China: Man sets fire to himself in Tiananmen Square (PHOTO) A man set fire to himself in Tiananmen Square in Beijing last month in a dramatic incident that was not reported until now, the Telegraph reported.
The moment was captured by a British tourist who took this photo on October 21. China's uneasy relationship with business neighbours. 24 October 2011Last updated at 02:11 By Karishma Vaswani BBC News, Jakarta Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan believes the threat from China is overstated If you are one of those people whose eyes glaze over when you hear the words China, Asean and free trade - do not worry, you are not alone.
But it bears some thinking about. ‘Made in China’ Tag Makes Hypocrites of Us All: William Pesek. Hypocrisy is the defining element in all the wrangling over China’s currency.
The debate seems deceptively simple: As China booms and America implodes, how much blame does Beijing’s undervalued currency get for chronic U.S. unemployment? China says none -- it’s a developing nation and needs to create the hundreds of millions of jobs to keep the peace and satisfy its citizens. A vocal chorus in Washington says China’s trade advantage hogs all the growth. The trouble with these disparate views is that they are both partly correct. The yuan does hinder growth, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke points out. The real question is: What can Americans do? Naming and Shaming Sure, Congress can slap tariffs on Chinese goods. PETROCHINA. Spies Among High-Ranking Officials. Cisco gets into more human rights trouble - New evidence uncovered. A human rights group, which is suing Cisco, says it has found new evidence proving the tech giant tailored its technology to enable torture and tracking of Chinese people.
The Human Rights Law Foundation said that it has evidence that Cisco trained Chinese officials in how to spy on net users. Cisco has always claimed that it flogged standard technology to the regime. According to AP, this case is different to another one being bought against Cisco on behalf of Chinese political prisoners who claim they were tortured and suppressed thanks to technology and training provided to the Chinese Communist Party by the networking outfit. Hong Kong Immigration, Customs & Visa Information - Hong Kong Tourism Board. China Increasingly Uses Tactic of Making Dissidents Vanish. China's plan for secret detentions alarms rights activists - latimes.com. Reporting from Beijing — A proposed change in the Chinese criminal code that would allow authorities to detain suspects for up to six months in a secret location is a dangerous step backward for the country, activists charged Saturday.
The change would essentially enshrine what has become a common practice for silencing dissidents, many of whom have disappeared for months without formal charges being filed. Under the change, the suspects could be held without their family members or lawyers being notified. The proposed change in the law was disclosed last week in the respected Legal Daily. "This new amendment will legalize 'forced disappearance,'" Beijing attorney Liu Xiaoyuan wrote on Twitter on Saturday. Liu was briefly detained around the same time as his friend and client Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist whose arrest this spring made international headlines. Under current law, a person suspected of a crime but not formally charged could be put under house arrest for six months.