on January 30, 2010 by admin in Shanghai, Comments (0)
Extra! Extra! Vancouver Olympics, what to do with Xinjiang and another death at Foxconn
- While China may have been all about itself at the Beijing Olympics, it heads to the Vancouver Winter Olympics with its head in its hoodie, downplaying expectations of how well it would do. [LA Times]
- You know what would be the thing to calm Xinjiang down? Investment, thinks China. [Reuters]
- Speaking of which, four more people have been sentenced to death over the riots that happened over the summer. [New York Times]
- Another person has died mysteriously at Foxconn – this time a 19-year-old who was found ina stairway of the company dormitory. This is the second high-profile employment death since mid-2009 for the manufacturers of Apple’s iPhone. [People's Daily Online]
- Oh boy, North Korea says it has detained another North American – this time a 28-year-old Korean-American who crossed the Tumen River… again from China. [Time]
- China’s National Audit Office has announced the results of its audit on 72 post-Sichuan earthquake reconstruction projects… and it looks like 230 million RMB of quake funds were misused. [China Daily]
- Things in Japan’s electronics industry are looking up and it might just be because China’s it’s new BFF. [Forbes]
- Despite the ongoing issue with Google, China has said it won’t limit the use of the Android operating system for mobile devices… probably because they’ve already invested so much into it AND it’s open source (aka free). [WSJ]
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