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- Online Market Flourishes in China [NYTimes] "Taobao fever has swept the school Mr. Yang attends, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College, where administrators say that a quarter of the 8,800 students enrolled operate Taobao shops, often from dormitory rooms. And across China, millions of other ordinary people — recent college graduates, shopkeepers and retirees — are also using Taobao to sell clothes, mobile phones, toys and just about anything else they can find at neighborhood stores and wholesale markets or even smuggle out of factories."
- China turns back Xinjiang plane [BBC News] "An Afghan aircraft bound for Urumqi in China's restive Xinjiang region has been turned back, reports from both countries say. Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported first that the plane had been hijacked, then that it had been the subject of a bomb threat. An Afghan diplomat said the plane's operators had not been told about a threat, just ordered to turn it back. "
- 3,000 China mobsters sentenced since 2006 [UPI] "Chinese officials say more than 3,000 reputed gang members have been locked up or executed for organized crime activities since January 2006. The tally was announced Sunday by the Supreme People's Court and was part of a continuing effort to curb violent crimes and the organizations behind them, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported."
- Inequality intensifies as women become recession's main victims [Shanghai Daily] "When a major swimwear factory in Bangkok found its sales plummeting in the financial downturn, it laid off some 1,900 workers, almost all of them women. That didn't surprise labor activists who say women are the most vulnerable workers in a recession, especially in low-wage industries in developing countries where gender equality lags behind the rest of the world."
- China Will Not Change Direction of Macroeconomic Policy [Caijing] " China will maintain its current macroeconomic stance, including a positive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy, senior policy makers said. Speaking at a media briefing on Aug. 7, Zhu Zhixin, vice director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said China is at a crucial stage of economic recovery and maintaining stable and fast growth is the government's top priority. "Positive signs of economic growth are increasing and recovering momentum is becoming clearer," Zhu said, adding that the recovery is neither stable nor balanced."
- BBC expansion in China under threat [Guardian] "The BBC's ambitions in China, one of the world's fastest-growing television markets, could be undermined by the government's anger over a recent Kate Adie documentary about the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Chinese authorities are understood to have ordered state-owned broadcasters in the country not to co-operate with BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, after officials were angered by a Kate Adie film about the massacre, which was made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy protests, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal."
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