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- Probe into collective air ticket price hike urged [China Daily] “Chinese consumer-right groups and law scholars Friday urged authorities to investigate into a collective price hikes by major airlines, which they suspected to be a violation of the Anti-monopoly Law. The Beijing Consumers Association, the Beijing Consumer Protection Law Society, the Beijing society on industry and business administration and the civil and commercial laws research center under the Beijing-based Renmin University expressed their concern over the controversial price hikes in a joint statement. "The pricing mechanism agreed by domestic airliners has led to an average rise of 10 percent in price of air tickets."
- China Denies Hacking U.S. Fighter-Jet Files [The Chosun Ilbo] “China has denied a U.S. newspaper report that computer spies possibly operating in China stole information related to the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter project. Chinese Foreign Minister spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a regular briefing Thursday that, "Some people keep making up stories. I don't know what their intention is." Jiang said China is "resolutely" opposed to so-called cyber crimes and has cracked down on such crimes, including hacking. She was responding to the latest report on acts of computer espionage originating in China.”
- Chinese developer: Buy a house get a wife for free [Danwei] “An old Jewish joke says that modern society is based on the ideas of three old men: Marx said "Everything is about Money". Freud said "Everything is about Sex". Then, Einstein arrived and concluded that "Everything is Relative". The Chinese economy has slowed down dramatically over the past six months and demand for real estate in China's major cities declined sharply. Concurrently, new data has been published about the disparity between China's male and female citizens and the subsequent troubles Chinese men face when trying to find a wife. Now, a local Real Estate Developer is trying to strike a new balance between Marx and Freud in order to get the market going again. Jin Tai Cheng, a Beijing company, is offering a creative solution for prospective buyers at its "Ecological Bay" Villa project. The company encourages future homeowners to date its sales girls and promises a wedding present of RMB 60,000 to any couple that ends up getting married.”
- China’s Other Minority, Seen by One of Its Own [NY Times] “It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers are either long gone or leaving, having declared the celebrations déclassé. Such is the case with China’s booming smokestack economy and with its ardent new fling with the automobile, with its desire for a deep-water navy built around aircraft carriers, and with its ambition for a space program that will land on the Moon. China is also just beginning to grapple with the creation of what most in the developed world would recognize as a modern legal system and acceptable standards for human rights, and it is in much the same position with its cobbling efforts to reinvent the welfare state. Most anachronistic of all, though, is the country’s treatment of its two largest minorities, the Tibetans and Uighurs, both old, non-Han indigenous civilizations that claim meaningful autonomy in China’s vast, resource-rich and sparsely populated west.”
- China announces Japanese PM trip [BBC News] “China has confirmed that Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will make an official visit next week - his first to Beijing since taking office in September. It comes despite recent Chinese criticism of Mr Aso for sending a gift to a shrine where some Japanese World War II criminals are buried. China believes the Yasukuni shrine to millions of war dead glorifies Japan's militarist past. Previous prime ministers have stirred regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni”
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