Hong Kong will extend its participation in a Secure Freight Initiative pilot until April 30 next year, the Trade & Industry Department says.

Staring down at the throngs of shoppers on Beijing's Xinjiekou Nandajie Avenue, a busy commercial thoroughfare about a mile west of the Forbidden City, was a white girl who looked all of 12, reclining in a matching bra-and-panties set adorned with Disney's signature mouse-ear design. In a particularly creepy detail, the pigtailed child was playing […]

Excellent little Op/Ed in the IHT by David Shambaugh on Chinese nationalism. Shambaugh is the head of the China program at GW (the Elliott School). For a while, he and Harry Harding were there at the same time before the latter's departure in 2005. Shambaugh is one of the heavies in the U.S. as far […]

Here's a fascinating report from China Labor News Translations on what's been going on with labor unions in some Wal-Mart stores in China. I'll quote the first paragraph to whet your interest: The trade unions in Chinese Wal-Mart stores are…