Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://policyresearchgroup.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://policyresearchgroup.com/files.php?file=POREG__LOGO_616812651.jpg http://policyresearchgroup.com/ http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/899.html East Asia Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:30:00 -0400 News Round Up http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/645.html East Asia Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:59:00 -0400 China is spending as much on defence as on domestic security. It has earmarked $370 bn to combat increasing mass protests. Since 2007, the country http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/628.html East Asia Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:06:00 -0400 Chinese authorities have rounded up more than a thousand people on the charge that they have threatened tthe country's security',  Hong Kong-based human rights group, http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/621.html East Asia Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:35:00 -0500 China has once again put dissident journalists on notice by sacking Zhang Hong, the deputy editor in chief of Beijing based weekly, Economic Observer’s Internet http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/617.html East Asia Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0500 Hundreds of Tibetans are being rounded up and detained in Lhasa and armed paramilitary groups are patrolling the streets in advance of the anniversary of http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/609.html East Asia Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:55:00 -0500 Chinese authorities are seeking greater control of the country's estimated 140,000 plus internet cafes. One proposal under consideration enviages a total ban on these cafes http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/603.html East Asia Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:36:00 -0500 China has recorded its widest wealth gap since economic reforms began in 1978 threatening the social stability of the country, say experts.The average annual income http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/570.html East Asia Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:37:00 -0500 A Chinese-born aerospace engineer, Greg Chung Dongfan ( 73) was jailed for more than 15 years in the United States on Feb 9  after being http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/544.html East Asia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:57:00 -0500 China’s popular Karaoke Bars have come under moral censors. Surveillance system is being fitted in these joints to let the authorities know when illegal music http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/542.html East Asia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:46:00 -0500 US sanctions are not coming in the way of Chinese companies doing ‘nuclear business’ with American firms, a study reveals. American companies are no less http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/538.html East Asia Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:35:00 -0500 Google has taken its first concrete step out of China, postponing the launch of two mobile phones produced specifically for the Chinese market, Jane Macartney http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/535.html East Asia Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:00 -0500 Piqued by ‘attacks’ on its e-mail service, Google has threatened to pull out of China.A primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/523.html East Asia Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:10:00 -0500 A prominent Chinese lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, is reported to have “gone missing” while in the custody of the Chinese police. The Chinese authorities have told his http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/522.html East Asia Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:08:00 -0500 Chinese democracy leader Zhou Yongjun has been sentenced to nine years in jail, the latest in a series of tough prison terms to be handed http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/509.html East Asia Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:26:00 -0500 'Leaving Fear Behind' a film that Chinese governmnt sees as pro-Dalai Lama, has landed its Tibetan maker Dhondup Wangchen in jail. He produced the film http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/508.html East Asia Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:08:00 -0500 After 'filtering' Internt content and arresting 5000 people for visiting porn sites, the Chinese authorities are facing a piquant situation. An American software maker has http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/496.html East Asia Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:56:00 -0500 China executed on Tuesday a British citizen, Akmal Shaikh (53) on charges of smuggling heroin. He is the first national from a European Union country http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/484.html East Asia Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:40:00 -0500 In what is a first for China, a report with official imprimatur admits to the existence of secret detention centres across the country. Capital Beijing http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/458.html East Asia Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:58:00 -0500 Cyber warfare will provide China with an asymmetric advantage to deter aggression from stronger military powers and also allow it to leapfrog by means of http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/457.html East Asia Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:20:00 -0500 One of China’s most notorious illegal casino operators, a 46-year-old woman who kept a stable of 16 young men as her lovers, was sentenced to http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/439.html East Asia Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:58:00 -0400 A Xinjiang Court has sentenced six men to death on October 12 for murder and other crimes committed during July ethnic riots that left nearly http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/391.html East Asia Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:50:00 -0400 A new round of unrest broke out in China's restive Xinjiang on Sept 3, today, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/383.html East Asia Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:09:00 -0400 China's latest problem is lead pollution threat to children living in the vicinity of Wugang manganese smelting plant in Hunan province. Officials on Thursday announced http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/377.html East Asia Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:08:00 -0400 The bloody riots that erupted in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province, in the first week of July 2009 evidently took the authorities by http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/373.html East Asia Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:22:00 -0400 A property bubble in China? It is not a distant reality, according to analysts keeping close tabs on China’s real estate market.  The bubble is http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/356.html East Asia Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:24:00 -0400 Chinese police are continuing the crackdown at Urumqi though one thousand persons were detained in the immediate wake of ethnic riots last month. The majority http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/331.html East Asia Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:09:00 -0400 In the wake of ethnic unrest, Chinese authorities banned Friday prayer gatherings at mosques at Urumqi and other places across the Xinjiang region.  Foreign journalists http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/323.html East Asia Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0400 One of the world's remotest regions, Xinjiang is China's Central Asian frontier. It is sparsely populated and borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia.The http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/320.html East Asia Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:01:00 -0400 Race riots in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province have claimed 160 lives since Saturday forcing President Hu Jintao to return home from the http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/287.html East Asia Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:45:00 -0400 China has formally arrested dissident Liu Xiaobo (53)after holding him in detention for six-months at a secret location near Beijing. The Beijing Public Security Bureau http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/259.html East Asia Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:25:00 -0400 With the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement on Thursday, Chinese officials have detained a noted dissident and cut off access to Twitter, http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/203.html East Asia Fri, 01 May 2009 20:26:00 -0400 Pakistan has neatly compartmentalised its militants into two categories – useful and disposable to meet the foreign policy prescriptions vis-à-vis China, India and Afghanistan, says the author http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/199.html East Asia Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:04:00 -0400 There is no let up in the Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners.Scores of its members have been sentenced to long terms in recent weeks. http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/189.html East Asia Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:26:00 -0400 On the eve of Prime Minister Taro Aso’s 2-day official visit to Beijing, Japan has criticised China for withholding information about its nuclear weapons and http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/91.html East Asia Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:34:00 -0500 Chinese government considers activities by the so called `Dalai Clique’ as the biggest threat to Tibet and to China’s stability and development. While China’s antagonism towards the Dalai Lama is understandable, a breakthrough to the Tibetan imbroglio will not come unless Beijing revisits its policy framework. http://policyresearchgroup.com/east_asia/90.html East Asia Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:51:00 -0500 India has banned import of a variety of Chinese toys, which are cheap and therefore very popular among the poor and lower middle classes. The Chiese toys are also sought by the rich because of their novelty valye. The ban apparently aimed at dumping and safeguarding the domestic toy industry will be in force for six months. It may be extended. Policy Research Group - Strategic Insight