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Hu offers condolences to Obama CHINESE President Hu Jintao yesterday offered his deep condolences to his US counterpart Barrack Obama over the casualties and major property losses inflicted upon the US East Coast by Superstorm Sandy. Hu also expressed confidence that the people affected by the storm will overcome their difficulties. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also sent a message to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing his condolences over the natural disaster. China seeks 'peaceful path' in region Australia does not have to worry about a war between China and the United States as a result of US failure to share power because China does not pursue dominance or an exclusive regional order, Chinese Lieutenant General Ren Haiquan said yesterday. Ren, vice president of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Science, made the remarks after attending the Chief of Army's Exercise 2012 in Australia held in Melbourne from October 28 to 30...

Here's two cars blocking the side walk. Many people need to walk through here. Sidewalks are used for walking, not parking. Sidewalks should not be turned into parking lots. What are they supposed to do? How can drivers be so selfish? Why not fine them? Regardless of how you look at things, the number of pedestrians outnumber the cars. Majority rules. Why should so many pedestrians be inconvenienced because a driver feels that it is convenient for him to park wherever he wants? When drivers park illegally, this affects pedestrians. When pedestrians can't walk on the sidewalk, they walk onto the street, making them vulnerable of being hit by not only cars, and buses, but also motorcycles. Rogue drivers cause problems for everyone. These motorists should be fined, but it is important not to turn mainland China into a police state like Singapore, and the USA. You might also like： ...

Top members of China's Communist Party are expected to debate leadership changes and oust disgraced figure Bo Xilai as they hold their last meeting starting Thursday ahead of a power transition next week. The plenum of the 17th Communist Party Central Committee, held behind closed doors, could last up to four days and will be closely watched for clues about next week's pivotal congress. The once-in-a-decade congress is set to name leaders for the next 10 years with Vice President Xi Jinping expected to succeed President Hu Jintao, while Vice Premier Li Keqiang will likely replace outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. Little else is known on who will fill a supporting cast to run the world's second-largest economy, with Chinese politics remaining shrouded in secrecy and intrigue. The plenum will see leaders jostling for positions and is also expected to conclude with a formal decision to oust Bo, who is at the centre of a scandal that has plagued the sensitiv...

For Xu Di, a 25-year-old Beijing resident, teaching her father, 57, how to use the computer was always a difficult job. "When I told my father how to copy and paste on the computer, he copied on his office computer and tried to paste on his home computer. When he found nothing was pasted, he blamed me for failing to teach him clearly," Xu said. However, cloud computing made a big difference to Xu's life, and her father's. Cloud computing is using computing resources, either hardware or software, that stores and delivers data as a service over the Internet. A visitor plays a game at an exhibition hall during the 4th China Cloud Computing Conference in Beijing on May 24. [Photo: China Daily] With a Chinese cloud client-side application such as Evernote or Jinshan Kuaipan, copying from your office computer and pasting when you get home is possible. "Photos, videos, contacts what you need to do is just register an account, and you can open anything yo...

A panda born on the first day of the London 2012 Olympic Games has been named Oreo in a vote by panda lovers around the world, officials said yesterday. Rebecca and panda cub Oreo. [newssc.org]  Rebecca Revich, an American contestant in the program "Global Search for Chengdu Pambassador 2012," recommended the name Oreo. She said the name Oreo means beauty in Greek and she very much likes Oreo cookies, which share the same colors as giant pandas. Oreo was born on July 28 at the Chengdu Panda Base. She is the first panda in the base to be named by admirers around the globe. The program organizer invited people worldwide on October 19 on Facebook to suggest a name to her and more than 8,000 names were sent in, including Mr Q and Lympic. The name Oreo got the most votes, 2,345. The name has led to an online debate as Oreo is so different from previous names, such as Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, given to the other pandas. Many people associate it with the cookies...

A panda born on the first day of the London 2012 Olympic Games has been named Oreo in a vote by panda lovers around the world, officials said yesterday.   Rebecca and panda cub Oreo. [newssc.org] Rebecca Revich, an American contestant in the program "Global Search for Chengdu Pambassador 2012," recommended the name Oreo. She said the name Oreo means beauty in Greek and she very much likes Oreo cookies, which share the same colors as giant pandas. Oreo was born on July 28 at the Chengdu Panda Base. She is the first panda in the base to be named by admirers around the globe. The program organizer invited people worldwide on October 19 on Facebook to suggest a name to her and more than 8,000 names were sent in, including Mr Q and Lympic. The name Oreo got the most votes, 2,345. The name has led to an online debate as Oreo is so different from previous names, such as Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, given to the other pandas. Many people associate it with the cookies an...

31 October 2012 Last updated at 00:57 ET Security in Beijing is being tightened as the party congress approaches Newspapers report increased security in Beijing with the Communist Party congress fast approaching. China Daily and Shanghai Daily publish a report by the official Xinhua news agency saying the municipal government has initiated an emergency response programme that requires supplies such as water, electricity and central heating to be restored within 15 minutes if any outage happens. Vehicles carrying toxic or dangerous chemicals will be banned from entering Beijing between 1 November and 18 November, said the Xinhua report. Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News says national security authorities have stepped up surveillance on dissidents, activists and lawyers, forcing some of them to leave the capital until after the congress. People's Daily and regional papers that are under the direct control of local Communist Party committees publish a multi-p...

How to balance efficiency and fairness is an important topic. If a country wants to maintain sable development, it should try to realize this balance through income distribution reform. The State Council's economic meeting send a clear message that the overall reform plan in this area will be made in the fourth quarter of this year. It catches attentions from foreign media as well, because through this income distribution reform the world will know how China will transform its economic growth model as well as how China will carry out its further reform in the future.    The past experience of many developing countries indicates the authority must solve the income gap when the economy of the country develops to certain level. That some countries developing fast from 1970s to 1980s cannot maintain the development momentum now is just because of their failure in addressing the wealth disparity issue at home. How China will avoid the middle income trap and let the middle-leve...

The Philippines will buy five patrol boats from France for about 90 million euros ($ 116 million), partly to guard disputed areas in the South China Sea, the coastguard said Tuesday. Rear Admiral Luis Tuason, the chief of the poorly-equipped coastguard, said one 82-metre (271-foot) ship and four 24-metre (79-foot) patrol craft would be delivered by 2014. Tuason cited the need for such ships to patrol the rough waters of the South China Sea, which Manila calls the West Philippine Sea. "When we patrol the West Philippine Sea, we encounter huge waves, turbulent waters so it will be better if we will use bigger ships," Tuason said in a statement. Coastguard spokesman Lieutenant Commander Armand Balilo said the larger ship was a "heavy endurance vessel that can be deployed even in bad weather". This is the first such ship to be acquired by the coastguard, he added. The Philippines and China began a stand-off in April over the Scarborough...

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Beijing denied it is connected to three retired Taiwan military officers arrested by Taiwanese police on charges of spying for mainland China. The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said it had no knowledge of an alleged espionage case in which the three retired Taiwanese officers are suspected of leaking information to Chinese mainland intelligence authorities. Yang Yi, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office, declined to make further comment, a report by the semi-official Global Times newspaper in Beijing, said. TAO is charged with overseeing and promoting business, tourism links between communist mainland Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China, as Taiwan is officially called. TAO also is charged with promoting unification of the two China's, which have been separate since 1949 when the defeated Chinese Nationalists -- the Kuomintang government and led by Chiang Kai-shek -- fled to the island. Reports by Taiwan's media called t...

Will China fall flat on its face just like Japan? By Laurence Knight Business reporter, BBC News In the late 80s, Japan was the Godzilla economy. Its output had grown 50-fold in the space of a generation, and Japan had seemingly overtaken the US as the most hi-tech nation. For many observers it was just a matter of a decade or so before Japan would become the world's biggest economy and its third superpower. But, of course, things didn't turn out that way. Instead, in 1990 Japan's stock market and property market both crashed spectacularly, leaving two decades (and counting) of economic stagnation in their wake. The more recent giddy rise of China's dragon economy is chillingly familiar. And many sceptical commentators have drawn the analogy with Japan, saying it is destined for a fall. But is this fair? We have put the two head-to-head, so you can decide: Japan in 1990 China in 2012 Population: 125 millionor...