Archive for April, 2012
China labour market now favours workers
Gone are the days when Chinese companies had a plentiful labour pool to draw on. “Today China is an employee’s market, no longer an employer’s market,” according to Zheng Qinghao, China head of German company Rittal in Shanghai. “Workers can easily find another job,” Zheng said. Rittal employs a staff of 1,200 making electrical switchboards [...]
Another fastest train for China
A record speed was achieved by a high-speed test train made by China’s largest train maker, Beijing News reported Thursday. CSR, China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co Ltd, launched the test train, which can reach speeds of up to 575 kilometers an hour, the paper said. Liang Jianying, deputy chief engineer at the subsidiary [...]
Cities get a sinking feeling
A diminishing water table, combined with a growing number of skyscrapers, is causing large areas of China to sink, increasing flood risk and endangering the rail network, according to a survey released recently by the China Geological Survey. The government has already launched a number of measures to combat the problem and a plan of [...]
First TCM medicine OK’d for EU market
A Chinese traditional medicine has been authorized for sale in a European market for the first time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. Finally the rest of the world is opening up to Chinese medicine. Industry experts said the approval would lead the way for Chinese traditional medicine to enter the mainstream European [...]
US strategy boosts visas for Chinese
The United States, hoping to rev up its economy through greater travel from China, is on the way to meeting President Barack Obama’s 2012 goal of a 40 percent boost in the processing of visas from the country. # years ago it was very hard to get a visa to the United States. I figure [...]
ATV boss takes rap over Jiang gaffe
Asia Television’s major shareholder Wang Zheng – who denied being the source of the station’s false report on the death of former president Jiang Zemin last year – is headed for the exit. Hong Kong – ATV’s major shareholder Wong Ching and executive director James Shing Pan Yu may bow out after the station misreported [...]
China to phase out prisoner organ donation
BEIJING — China will abolish the transplanting of organs from executed prisoners within five years and try to spur more citizens to donate, a top health official says. Rights groups call transplants from condemned prisoners a form of abuse and allege that the government, which executes far more people than any other nation, pressures them [...]
China dismisses Bo Xilai as head of party in Chongqing
BEIJING — Bo Xilai, a man recently seen as headed for the center of power in China, was removed from his office as the Chinese Communist Party chief of the mega-city of Chongqing, a stunning turnabout for one of the nation’s most controversial politicians. A terse statement posted Thursday morning on a website run by [...]
