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Press Reviews
Press Reviews
From 2007 to 2018, and in 2021, the CEFC Research Assistants produced a regular review of the press covering news in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
The news clippings below were collected from both Chinese and English newspapers and now constitute a useful and original resource for researchers.
17 September 2010
Keywords: Special Economic Zone, economic reform, political reform, religion, China-Japan relationship, U.S.-China relationship, labor, Manila bus siege, KMT, Macau legal aid CHINA - POLITICS Shenzhen Special Economic Zone marks 30 years * Hu’s speech & economic reform President Hu Jintao hailed the southern Special Economic Zone Shenzhen as a “miracle” on September 6th as...
READ MORE7 May 2010
Keywords: school attack, Xinjiang, U.S.-China relation, Three-gorges immigrants, Tibet, sex and gender, China-France relationship, DPRK, Hong Kong by-election, KMT, DPP CHINA - POLITICS Deadly school attacks shock the nation May 3rd, a man kidnapped a 5-year-old girl in downtown Beijing after he failed to see an internet friend he had arranged to meet for a date. The man was...
READ MORE23 April 2010
Keywords: earthquake, central leadership, media censorship, national security, currency appreciation, Hong Kong political reform, Hong Kong housing policy CHINA - POLITICS Qinghai earthquake On April 14th, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit remote Yushu county in western Qinghai province. The death toll currently stands at 2064 with 175 missing and 12135 injured. About 70% to 90%...
READ MORE09 April 2010
Keywords: mine disaster, surrogate mother, labor, sex, and gender, Shanghai expo, housing price, Vietnamese bride, U.S.-China relationship, Pearl River Delta, U.S.-China relationship, G20 CHINA - POLITICS Mine Disaster Miracle and Muddle The whole of China watched for a week as rescuers struggled to make contact with more than 153 miners trapped underground in a flooded mine...
READ MORE26 March 2010
Keywords: SOE, land price, RMB revaluation, labor shortage, bad vaccination, ECFA, media censorship CHINA - ECONOMY SOEs push land price to new high Right after Premier Wen showed his determination to regulate the property market at the National People’s Congress, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) pushed Beijing land sales to record prices. The Southern Metropolis Daily said SOEs...
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