http://en.redtram.com/ All news  in "East Asia" Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:26:41 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 241475 | Suicide Sparks Concern for Officials' Mental Health in Quake Zone http://en.redtram.com/go/163002140/top100/ 163002140 From Xinhua:Authorities in the southwest China May 12 quake zone are seeking ways to improve the mental health of their staff after a 40-year-old senior official of Beichuan County, one of the worst-hit areas, committed suicide.Dong Yufei, the county agriculture Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:51:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002140/top100/ 241475 | China Vows Stable Growth in Face of Global Turmoil http://en.redtram.com/go/163002096/top100/ 163002096 The four-day meeting of the Party's Central Committee was aimed to thrash out policies in an effort to tackle economic instabilities. Reuters reports:"The most important thing is to handle our country's own affairs well," according to a communique issued after Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002096/top100/ 241475 | Dairy Giants Issue First Public Apology for Scandal http://en.redtram.com/go/163002093/top100/ 163002093 He Bolin of China Daily reports on the first public apology by Mengniu, Yili, and Bright Dairy for their role in the milk scandal.During a talk show program, Dialogue, broadcast last night on the economic channel of China Central Television, Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:54 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002093/top100/ 241475 | Photo: Beijing Wedding http://en.redtram.com/go/163002091/top100/ 163002091 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:53 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002091/top100/ 241475 | China's Communists Approve Key Land Reforms http://en.redtram.com/go/163002075/top100/ 163002075 AFP reports on proposed economic reforms that would allow farmers to trade and mortgage the rights to their land:The package was approved at an annual meeting here chaired by President Hu Jintao of up to 500 members of the party's Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002075/top100/ 241475 | China: All Bets Are Off http://en.redtram.com/go/163002038/top100/ 163002038 Michael Sheridan reports from Hong Kong, in the Sunday Times:From Hong Kong to Shanghai, shuttered factories and laid-off workers tell a tale of how the world credit crisis may end the Chinese export miracle and pose the greatest threat to Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002038/top100/ 241475 | Internet Posts Used in Zhuzhou Graft Trial http://en.redtram.com/go/163002035/top100/ 163002035 From Caijing Magazine:Citizen postings on the Internet may have brought down an official once praised as a "national labor model" in the city of Zhuzhou, Hunan Province.Data from Web postings led diciplinary officials to launch an investigation into the actions Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:15 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002035/top100/ 241475 | NBA in Joint Venture to Build Arenas in China http://en.redtram.com/go/163002033/top100/ 163002033 The NBA has launched a plan to help build 12 new arenas throughout China. From AP:NBA commissioner David Stern did not say when the plan would be starting, or where the buildings would be located."We weren't going to start construction Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002033/top100/ 241475 | Confessions of a Propaganda Hitman http://en.redtram.com/go/163002023/top100/ 163002023 From Economic Observer Online:As a propaganda "hitman", Yu Menghong is hired by Xi'an provincial government officials to churn out polished propaganda pieces lauding their achievements.His stories, crafted with materials provided by his clients, are published in major local newspapers as Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:50:09 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163002023/top100/ 241475 | China's Independents To Sue Oil Majors Over Fuel http://en.redtram.com/go/163001992/top100/ 163001992 From Reuters:Frustrated by an unsteady trickle of overpriced fuel, China's independent oil firms hope to sue the country's two energy giants Sinopec and PetroChina under a new anti-monopoly law, Chinese media reported on Monday.The companies have crushed their smaller rivals Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:42 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163001992/top100/ 241475 | China's Trade Surplus Widens to Record $29.3 Billion http://en.redtram.com/go/163001991/top100/ 163001991 From Bloomberg: China's trade surplus widened to a record in September as exports withstood the global economic slowdown and falling commodity prices reduced the import bill. Exports rose 21.5 percent from a year earlier to $136.4 billion after gaining 21.1 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:41 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163001991/top100/ 241475 | Zhang Qianfan: Food Safety Cannot Be Removed From Media Oversight http://en.redtram.com/go/163001987/top100/ 163001987 Written by Zhang Qianfan ( ), a law professor at Peking University, from China Elections and Governance:Recently the Shijiazhuang municipal government publicly apologized for the Sanlu powdered milk incident. The city received a report from Sanlu at the beginning of Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163001987/top100/ 241475 | China Also Suffers From Indoor Air Pollution http://en.redtram.com/go/163001982/top100/ 163001982 From Los Angeles Times:China is already home to 16 of the planet's 20 most heavily polluted cities -- a noxious consequence of its double-digit economic growth. Now researchers have worse news for the nation's beleaguered lower classes: The air inside Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163001982/top100/ 244814 | White Angel Song Jia (4 pics) http://en.redtram.com/go/163000002/top100/ 163000002 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:20:08 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/163000002/top100/ 90007 | More than 60,000 affected in Tibet quake http://en.redtram.com/go/162925628/top100/ 162925628 An earthquake followed by some 1,000 aftershocks has affected more than 60,000 people in the Tibet Autonomous Region this week, the local government said in a news conference Saturday. Since Monday's 6.6-magnitude quake struck Damxung County in Lhasa, more than Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:41 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925628/top100/ 90007 | CPC closes major meeting with decision on rural reform, development http://en.redtram.com/go/162925613/top100/ 162925613 The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Sunday approved a decision on major issues concerning rural reform and development at the close of a four-day plenum. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925613/top100/ 90007 | Experts call for more efforts in boosting cross-Strait relations http://en.redtram.com/go/162925618/top100/ 162925618 About 100 experts on cross-Taiwan Strait relations called for redoubled efforts for accelerating the development of cross-strait relations on Sunday. The experts, who came from universities and academic institutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Beijing, focused their attention on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925618/top100/ 90007 | Crane collapse kills one, injures one in Shanghai http://en.redtram.com/go/162925620/top100/ 162925620 One person died and another was injured after a steel tube of a crane cracked in China's largest industry center of Shanghai at midday Sunday. The incident occurred at 12:15 a.m. at a construction site of an underground channel in Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925620/top100/ 90007 | Top Swiss parliament leader to visit China http://en.redtram.com/go/162925624/top100/ 162925624 Andre Bugnon, president of the National Council of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland will pay a visit to China from Oct.13 to 17, at the invitation of Wu Bangguo, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925624/top100/ 90007 | Yu Youjun removed from CPC Central Committee http://en.redtram.com/go/162925609/top100/ 162925609 The Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Sunday approved a proposal from the CPC disciplinary organ for the removal of Yu Youjun from the CPC Central Committee. Delegates confirmed a Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:13:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/162925609/top100/