Hindustan Times

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Ethnic riots in west China, 140 dead

A prolonged clash on Sunday evening between hundreds of civilians brandishing bricks, rocks and knives against armed police in China’s remote northwest region of Xinjiang, left 140 dead and over 800 injured.

This was the worst ethnic riot in China since Tibetan protests against Chinese rule spread on the streets of Lhasa last March. The official death toll of 140 also makes it the deadliest demonstration to have erupted anywhere in China since years.

Hundreds were arrested after the bloodbath on the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, where rioters also torched 261 vehicles and ransacked property.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

India joins race for land in Africa, China way ahead

After years of competing for overseas oil and mines to fuel their still-growing economies, India and China are silently scouring the world for their next great need: farmland to grow food.

The destination: Africa, where economies are poor and land is cheap.

Buying farmland abroad is not new, but it has gained urgency after a worldwide spike in food prices through 2007 and 2008.

So, more than a dozen companies from India, backed by the government, invested about $2 billion (Rs 10,000 crore) in leasing land and installing plants in Ethiopia last year to produce sugar, tea and several other crops.

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Labels: africa, china, ethiopia, farmland, farmland to grow food, food prices, India, leasing land and installing plants, verseas oil and mines

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

China Television shows man throwing shoe at Prime Minister

Chinese state television on Tuesday aired in full footage of a man hurling his shoes at China’s premier Wen Jiabao during a trip to Britain — an unusual departure from official media’s practice of suppressing embarrassing events as print and broadcast outlets had done earlier in the day .

CCTV along with the official , news agency and newspapers, initially reported the event obliquely referring only to an , “incident” or describing Britain’s apology without giving details of the protest.

But unedited footage of the event was shown on CCTV’s main evening news report.

China tightly controls its media and often suppresses news seen as unflattering to the Communist Party and state leaders.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

China crisis: 20 million migrants have lost jobs

Twenty Million. That's the official number of out-of work migrants — more than the population of Beijing or Mumbai — who are back in villages in the fallout of slumping global demand for made-in-China products.

An average of six million workers enter China’s rural labour market every year, so this year’s migrant job losses could top 25 million.

“About 20 million of China’s migrant workers have returned home after losing their jobs as the global financial crisis takes a toll on the economy said state media Xinhua, ,” quoting a senior planning official on Monday .

This estimate was released a day after the government issued a document warning that 2009 would be China’s toughest year since 2000.

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Labels: china, China’s migrant workers, China’s rural labour market, global financial crisis, jobs, made in China products, Mumbai, work migrants

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

China slowing to 19 year low, watches India

Both India and China may grow at almost the same pace next year, when the global slowdown triggered in the US and Europe will hit home harder.

On Tuesday, the World Bank in Beijing forecast that China would grow at a 7.5 per cent rate next year — China’s lowest since 1990 and a drop from 9.4 per cent growth projected for this year. There is no Bank figure for India, but Prime Manmohan Minister Singh has predicted a 7 to 7.5 per cent growth.

China is the world’s fastest-growing economy and had expanded in double digits for the last five years, touching 11.9 per cent last year.

“More than half of our GDP growth forecast of around 7.5 per- cent for 2009 is coming from government influenced spending,” said main author Louis Kuijs in Beijing.

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Labels: author Louis Kuijs, china, China is the world’s fastest-growing economy, GDP growth forecast, India, World Bank in Beijing

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Business down in Mumbai

That Mumbai is a rising international business hub is known. But a report released by MasterCard on Emerging Markets Index reveals that while Mumbai tops the chart when it comes to financial services network and trading in shares and bonds, it performs miserably where security, infrastructure, technology penetration and quality of urban life are concerned.

The report, released on Monday, ranked 65 cities across the globe. Eight Indian cities Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune and Coimbatore made it to the list. This was only second to China, which had 15 cities.

Mumbai took the lead among Indian cities at rank 19. But nine Asian cities occupied higher positions than Mumbai out of which six were from China. New Delhi came second at 28 followed by Bangalore at 38, Chennai at 39, Hyderabad at 46, Kolkata at 48 and Pune at 52. Last year, the Prime Minister set up a task force to make Mumbai an international financial centre.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

A wedding plan for China

In officially atheist China, it’s hard to imagine young Chinese couples tying the knot in a traditional Indian wedding ceremony But. India’s tourism office in Beijing thinks the idea is not far-fetched.

To entice the young Chinese to spend their wealth in India as the yuan rises and the dollar sinks, the India Tourism office will arrange mock marriages for Chinese couples in India’s biggest and almost untapped tourism market.

“We want to put India on China’s honeymoon itinerary,’’ India Tourism Director Shoeb Samad told the Hindustan Times in his six month-old Beijing office. “China, like India, has a major wedding industry We are networking to come in . as wedding managers.’’

The scheme planned for early next year, will include a sponsored bridal lehenga and a honeymoon photo clicked before the Taj Mahal. Couples will be chosen from contests and lucky draws held in Chinese wedding magazines.

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Labels: Beijing, china, Chinese couples, Chinese wedding magazines, India Tourism office, Indian wedding ceremony, lucky draws, mock marriages, Shoeb Samad, Taj Mahal

Monday, August 4, 2008

Aboard the Beijing Bullet, lessons for Delhi

IN LESS than two minutes, the Harmony silently glided past the top speed of India's fastest trains, the Rajdhani and the Shatabdi.

A week before the most definitive moment in China's modern history as a rising superpower - the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing at 8.08 pm on 08.08.08 - I bought a second-class ticket out of the capital. HTs daily dispatch for the Beijing Olympics began aboard China's latest and the world's fastest intercity bullet train that will shuttle football fans between inland Beijing and coastal Tianjin at a record 350 kmph in 30 minutes. By 2013, a high-speed railway wn cut train travel between BeijingShanghai from 10 hours to five. I skipped the media test ride to line up as a common commuter between inland Beijing and China's third-largest city and its busiest northern seaport about 135 km away The Made-in China bullet trains cut the com- mute from a previous 70 minutes at 200-250 kmph to 30 minutes. The new commute combines Beijing and Tianjin into one city Chinese researcher Zhou Gansi told China Central Television. "It can dramatically change people's way of life." The local train from Mumbai's southern financial hub to its northern suburbs takes twice as long. Imagine the potential of a Delhi-Chandigarh or Mumbai-Ptme train giving professionals the choice of a comfortable daily intercity commute instead of migration. The fastest Mumbai-Pune train takes three hours to cover 192 km. The seven-year infrastructure revolution inside India's largest and most powerful neighbour goes beyond its 37 Olympic stadiums.

My journey began at Asia's largest railway station (by one estimate, the size of 20 football fields) that opened in south Beijing last week with none of the fanfare that would accompany such an event if it happened in India.

After all, Beijing opened the world's biggest international airport terminal this year, to welcome over 10,000 athletes and modern China's biggest-ever influx of foreigners (about half a million) from August 8-24.

The solar panel-roofed station looks like an international airport, and is bigger than the 91,000-seat Bird's Nest stadium that will host the opening ceremony. As commuters bought instant noodles they prepared with hot water from the station taps, I was the only Indian in the crowd, struggling to decipher Chinese signs.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Job prospects best in India

Despite fears of an economic slow down at home and a slump worldwide, the country's employers are looking for workers actively. India has topped a global employment outlook survey, powered mainly by service industries such as IT, realty and financial services.

The latest quarterly survey of about 5,636 employers - part of a global sample of 55,000 - by multinational human resource firm Manpower Inc says that India's Net Employment Outlook for the July-September quarter stands at 45 per cent, the highest in the world.

"The strongest hiring intention is seen in sectors such as the services, finance, insurance, real estate, media and tourism," said Naresh Malhan, managing director of the Indian unit of Manpower .

Hiring intentions are weakest in the whole sale and retail trade industry sector and the manufacturing sector where employers have indicated a decline in their hiring plans.

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Labels: call centers, china, hiring, human resource, India, India's Net Employment Outlook, IT, ITES, Job, MNC, prospects, Singapore, survey

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Shaken

Within Hours, the official death toll from a massive earthquake that shook China on Monday afternoon shot up from four to 107 to "several thousands". At the time of going to press, more than 9,000 people were feared dead in the earthquake the worst in China in over three decades.

In southwest China's Sichuan province - 100 km from the epicentre - 900 children were feared buried under the rubble of their high school. Rescue operations were on till 1ate night. State news agency Xinhua reported that the children were "struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help". Xinhua said 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone. In Beichuan county, near Sichuan's capital Chengdu, 80 per cent of buildings collapsed and about 5,000 people were killed.

The extent of the death and destruction from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake which struck at 2.28 pm was not revealed until evening.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Stop the violence, or I quit

Even as Beijing launched a strong verbal assault on the Dalai Lama, the temporal and spiritual leader of Tibetans on Tuesday threatened to resign if the violence in Tibet did not stop.

He appealed to the Tibetan people to remain committed to non-violence. "Should the majority of the Tibetan people want to use violence, I would have no other option but to resign from leading the Tibetan struggle," he told reporters in Dharamsala. He expressed concern over the turmoil in Tibet, but said the situation was gradually improving.

The Dalai Lama spoke after Chinese premier Wen JiaBao blamed him for the violence. "There is ample fact and we also have plenty of evidence - proving that this incident was organised, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Wen said at his annual news conference at the end of China's national legislative session in Beijing. "

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Pollution cloud over Olympics

There's a dark shadow over certain events at the Beijing Olympics this August. In Lausanne on Monday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) didn't rule out postponing endurance competitions like the marathon because of the heavy pollution in the air over the Chinese capital. If that happens, it will be unprecedented.

There may be "some risk (to the health of the athletes)" from the pollution, the IOC said. It will consider a 'Plan B', and may even postpone events if, after daily monitoring of the air quality, weather conditions and other relevant data, it finds the conditions aren't conducive for competition.

Events that require a minimum one hour of continuous physical effort at a high level, are under the scanner; the IOC said. These would include the marathon, swimming, mountain biking, urban road cycling, triathlon and the walks.

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Labels: Beijing Olympics, china, International Olympic Committee, Justine Henin, Plan B

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

China's satellite clicks the moon

CHINA'S LEADERS celebrated the first images sent from the country's first lunar satellite on Monday, saying they showed their nation had thrust itself into the front ranks of global technological powers. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting the scientists who have guided the lunar probe Chang'e 1 into space and around the moon, proclaimed the mission a success after it began to send back images, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua news.

"The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1,000year old dream of reaching the moon a reality," Premier Wen reportedly said. The picture on the Xinhua website showed a patch of grey moon surface splotched with craters.

Even as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle in rural hardship, the ruling Communist Party is committed to clambering into the select ranks of global space powers, and Chang'e 1's journey has been accompanied by a stream of patriotic propaganda. In 2003, China became only the third country in the world to put a man into space using its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States. It then sent two astronauts on a five-day flight on its Shenzhou VI rocket in October 2005.

China plans to launch its third manned rocket, Shenzhou VII, into space in October 2008 and may send an astronaut on a space walk, a Shanghai paper said. The probe's success showed the world that "the Chinese people have the will, confidence and ability to constantly compose fine new chapters as we scale the peaks of modern science and technology", Wen said of the mission.
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