Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, is to meet with his Japanese counterpart Naoto Kan for talks on regional security, against a backdrop of anxiety about China’s greater assertiveness over its territorial boundaries
I spent a comfortable hour and a quarter today on the high-speed bullet train from Nanjing to Shanghai – a symbol of China’s technological progress and the extreme lengths to which it has gone to acquire western technology.
The journey on the se…
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. posted a 76.4% revenue increase as the company announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010. Total revenues in the third quarter of 2010 were CNY2.256 billion, a 76.4% increas…
A representative from China Unicom’s product innovation department revealed that the operator’s mobile phone payment service is undergoing trial use in four cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chongqing, and the service will be formally…
They claim that by the time the Shanghai Expo closes, in about a week’s time, some 70m people will have visited since it opened at the beginning of May. I was a bit sceptical about that number. But having spent a few hours there, I can believe it…
China was introduced to its likely next leader this week when Xi Jinping was named to a top military post at the Communist party’s annual plenum. No one knows much about him and few are bothered.
On my visit to China with a group of journalists, I today visited Beijing Middle School 101 – a school at which 4,000 students up to the age of 18 prepare for university. It was a remarkable insight into the achievements and aspirations of China’…
I am in China this week and, on my first full day in Beijing, took a trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. While there, I saw the following customer service declaration on the cable car. It made this visitor happy: