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11/19/11--00:00: Paper in 'subtle push' for democratic change (chan 1857252)

A newspaper article eulogising a reformed-minded official has sparked speculation that it is subtly - yet boldly - pushing the upcoming leadership to launch democratic reforms.


11/19/11--00:00: Open markets further to foreign firms, Locke urges (chan 1857252)

China should further open its markets to foreign companies, the US ambassador to China Gary Locke said yesterday, while advocating Washington should also break down regulatory barriers for Chinese investments in America.


11/19/11--00:00: Ai Weiwei photographs in 'pornography' probe (chan 1857252)

Artist-activist Ai Weiwei says he is being investigated by police over a series of alleged "pornographic" photographs posted on the internet more than a year ago. His assistant who took the photos, Zhao Zhao , said he was quizzed by officers for several hours on Thursday. "They asked if I took the photographs and I said yes," Zhao said.


11/19/11--00:00: 436,000 yuan payouts for relatives of 21 killed in school minibus crash (chan 1857252)

The families of the 21 people killed in Wednesday's school bus accident in Gansu will each receive 436,000 yuan (HK$534,235) in compensation from the local authorities. The semi-official China News Service said yesterday the Zhengning county government in Qingyang prefecture had drafted a compensation plan over the 19 children and two adults who died.


11/19/11--00:00: China Digest (chan 1857252)

Lung cancer has become the most lethal disease in the capital, accounting for one in five cancer patients, the Beijing Times reports, quoting Mao Yu , deputy director of the city's public health bureau. The incidence of lung cancer rose about 56 per cent between 2000 and 2009.


11/19/11--00:00: Docking points way forward (chan 1857252)

The nation's space programme yesterday described the recovery of an unmanned spacecraft that docked twice with an orbiting module a major step toward a future space station, and said it remained open to co-operation with other nations despite US objections.


11/19/11--00:00: Taipei worries delay museum swaps (chan 1857252)

Efforts by Beijing's Palace Museum to exhibit some of the 660,000 national treasures housed by its counterpart in Taipei have hit an obstacle despite the positive exchanges between the two museums over the past three years, writes Lawrence Chung.


11/19/11--00:00: Wen calls for clear minds on Asian affairs (chan 1857252)

Premier Wen Jiabao warned yesterday against outside forces becoming involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea and the affairs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), as the United States seeks to exert more influence.


11/19/11--00:00: Ancient arts' renaissance (chan 1857252)

By modernising and commercialising Chinese cultural history, the head of Taiwan's National Palace Museum has had mainland counterparts trying to emulate her, writes Lawrence Chung.


11/19/11--00:00: A tragedy that was waiting to happen (chan 1857252)

The death of 19 young children in a school bus crash in Gansu this week left many wondering how such an accident could happen. But many dismayed educators say it was a tragedy waiting to happen because of a lack of safety checks on school bus operations, poor funding for rural preschools and a flawed rural schools policy that left parents and schools with little option but to use unsafe vehicles to transport pupils.


11/19/11--00:00: Intelligent assistance for a better future (chan 1857252)

Guangdong needs more talent, technology and innovation - and overseas universities can help, writes Ivan Zhai.


12/04/11--00:00: Baby trafficker awaits her fate (chan 1857252)

After more than three years in hiding, self-confessed child-trafficker Wu Zhenglian is facing justice following her arrest in Henan last month.


12/04/11--00:00: Girl's death triggers riot over road safety (chan 1857252)

Hundreds of people in Xian , Shaanxi province, overturned police and government cars in a show of anger on Friday night over the death of a 10-year-old schoolgirl in a truck accident, according to Xinhua.


12/04/11--00:00: Scholar talks of Persia's great influence on China (chan 1857252)

What do jasmine, the pipa musical instrument, Louis Cha's martial arts classics and admiral Zheng He have in common? The answer is their link to Persia - present-day Iran.


12/04/11--00:00: Rise in smuggled women reported (chan 1857252)

An increasing number of women from Southeast Asia are being smuggled into China and sold into marriage or forced to work as prostitutes, state media reported yesterday.


12/04/11--00:00: Ma puts ties front and centre (chan 1857252)

Taiwan's three presidential candidates faced off in their first live televised debate yesterday, a relatively sedate contest that was watched and covered closely on both sides of the strait. The 2-1/2-hour debate ranged from cross-strait relations, to the economy and social problems, with ruling Kuomintang candidate President Ma Ying-jeou wisely concentrating his efforts on his key rival, Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman Dr Tsai Ing-wen, and ignoring James Soong Chu-yu, the head of the People First Party, said Professor Chang Ling-chen, a Taipei-based political analyst.


12/04/11--00:00: Ancient trees tell different climate story (chan 1857252)

Professor Liu Yu says tree rings are key to understanding and predicting climate change. For more than a decade, the deputy director of Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Earth Environment in Xian has ventured into some of the wildest spots in the mid-eastern Tibetan Plateau region to collect samples and take measurements. Liu has run simulations on computers to determine annual temperatures in the region over the past 2,485 years. His research has yielded a particularly interesting, perhaps even shocking, finding: global warming may have stopped.


12/04/11--00:00: Taiwan's young people losing the appetite for a fight (chan 1857252)

Most young Taiwanese say they would be unwilling to take up arms to protect the island's self-rule. A survey published this week by Taiwan's CommonWealth magazine appears to confirm that Taiwan's process of demilitarisation is rapidly gaining steam.


12/04/11--00:00: Non-manufacturing output shrank too last month (chan 1857252)

Non-manufacturing industries contracted last month after the government's curbs on property and lending damped demand.


12/11/11--00:00: Police injure pregnant woman, strikers claim (chan 1857252)

Clashes broke out as police moved in to help a Hitachi-affiliated factory in Shenzhen move products out of its warehouse, which was surrounded by protesting workers as their sit-in moved into its seventh day.