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The article reports on the national defense paper published by China on April 16, 2013 regarding the tensions created by the U.S. in Asia-Pacific by strengthening the military presence of the country and improving its alliances in the region.

The article offers travel tips for Lijiang, China and includes information on Donga Paper Workshops store, Square Market main plaza, and Prague Cafe.

The article reports on the eight-year prison term of Cao Haibo, owner of an Internet cafe, for criticizing the ruling Communists in online messages in China in 2012. Cao was charged of subversion of state power for attempting to establish the China Republican Party, an entity that only existed on paper. According to Chinese Human Rights international director Renee Xia, the only crime of Cao was to chat online where members of the group discussed constitutional rights and democratic reform.

Optimism appears to be rising that the Securities and Exchange Commission can reach some sort of accommodation with Chinese authorities to get help in investigating a wave of frauds at Chinese-based companies. The deceits have humiliated auditors and money managers who trusted or vouched for the companies, while enriching short-sellers who spotted the frauds early. But it is far from clear that all Chinese officials really want to surrender the control that comes from having exclusive access to information. China has forbidden audit firms -- including affiliates of the Big Four -- from sharing work papers with the S.E.C., which has taken action against a Chinese affiliate of Deloitte in two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HONG KONG -- China's cabinet issued on Wednesday its first white paper on rare earth industry policies, acknowledging that poorly regulated mining of rare earth metals had caused widespread environmental damage and promising an extensive cleanup and a crackdown on illegal mines. The document warned that inefficient mining and refining practices had squandered scarce mineral reserves and produced extensive emissions of radioactive residues, heavy metals and other contaminants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that China has appealed to the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body concerning tariffs the U.S. has applied to various Chinese goods including paper, steel products, and solar panels.

The article focuses on the pre-wedding celebrations of Indian bridegrooms by going on fun trips to international destinations. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Macau in China, and Singapore are the most frequently visited destinations due to cheaper deals and unlimited avenues for entertainment. Thailand and Hong Kong are destinations preferred by youths due to their policy of getting visas on arrival which include no paper works.

BEIJING -- Chinese officials rapidly intensified a propaganda campaign to paper over a leadership split in the Communist Party on Thursday as the first hints began to emerge of the wealth and influence amassed by relatives of a deposed Politburo member, Bo Xilai. The burst of coverage was remarkable for its intensity and focused message, even for a propaganda apparatus that regularly sings the party's praises, analysts said, reflecting deep concern that Mr. Bo's removal and the murder investigation aimed at him and his wife would deepen a now evident split between the Communist left and the more moderate right wing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Chinese Luxury Consumer White Paper 2012, which revealed that there are 2.7 million high net worth individuals in China, with personal assets of over six million yuan.

China's first aircraft carrier, a 1980s Soviet warship that has been refitted with modern weaponry, will go into service later this year, state-run media quoted a top navy official as saying on Tuesday. The carrier, once called the Varyag, has been undergoing sea trials since last August. The military unveiled a new carrier-based jet fighter last spring, the J-15 Flying Shark, but the ship currently sports only full-size models of aircraft, the newspaper China Daily stated. The paper quoted Rear Adm. Cao Dongshen, a deputy at this month's annual meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing, as saying that the ship would be used for training, experiments and scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the findings of a report from the Pentagon concerning China's aggressive global defense position. The Pentagon's assessment of China's White Paper reveals the country as an emerging security threat due to its Marxist ideology. The report confirms China's plans to expose its People's Liberation Army (PLA) to global peacekeeping, anti-piracy, and humanitarian efforts. Analysts note that China has already shown aggressive behavior in economic and military domains.

The article focuses on the Chinese Luxury Traveller White Paper which revealed that Chinese tourists consumed 17% of the global shopping market in 2010.

The article criticizes China's messages about its military buildup as it presents supposedly five false messages in its defense white paper "China's National Defense in 2010" according to the U.S. Defense Department in 2011. It believes that China is not being transparent by understating its defense spending. China's anti-space weaponization view allegedly makes no mention of its 2007 direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons test which destroyed its own satellite in space. China is deemed the world's biggest supplier of weapons of mass destruction.

ON a misty afternoon in February, Lingyin Temple, a fourth-century Buddhist site that is one of China's most important sanctuaries, felt more like a carnival than a place of worship. In large multigenerational packs, festive families were gathered for the Lunar New Year holiday, tossing fistfuls of ceremonial paper money into huge open fire pits and waving incense sticks as they jostled through crowds on their way to visit the 80-foot-high Buddha that is the building's centerpiece. All the while they were downing fried tofu on sticks and corn on the cob and taking photos of everything on digital cameras. My family and I, possessing the only Western faces in the crowd, qualified as a photo coup -- especially my towheaded toddler. ''Look over here, foreign baby!'' a young mother shouted as she held up her baby next to mine. The holiday period may officially last only a week, but the celebratory mood in Hangzhou seems to have permanently taken over this ever more vital city. Hangzhou has always held a near mythical status in China, both for its beautiful lakeside location and as a place for meditative and spiritual retreat in times of trouble. During the culturally rich but politically disastrous Southern Song period of the 12th and 13th centuries, many of the country's most famous painters and poets lived here, seeking escape on the banks of the tranquil, willow-shaded West Lake while influential monks established temples with towering pagodas in the quiet hilltops nearby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

O.K., I'm a little slow; I admit I didn't grasp the point of all the drum-beating this week in Women's Wear Daily. I've been in Paris covering shows. But this morning all was illuminated when I went to wwd.com and saw the headline ''Michelle Obama Puts Kara Ross on World Stage.'' The article stated that Ms. Ross, a jewelry designer, had been ''called up to the major leagues'' by the ''prime placement'' of earrings on Mrs. Obama, most recently at the State of the Union speech. I can assure you that Ms. Ross and Rachel Roy, the designer of Mrs. Obama's white dress for the speech, would not have received so much attention before Women's Wear decided to conduct the equivalent of a witch hunt. The paper, with help from Oscar de la Renta and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, is trying to shame Mrs. Obama for her sin of wearing fashion by a non-American designer to the state dinner for China on Jan. 19. I mean, of course, the red Alexander McQueen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- The community is walled and gated, an enclosure of rows of crowded low-rise homes and shops, where people live under the gaze of surveillance cameras and apart from the city. The police patrol around the clock, and security guards stop unfamiliar faces to check identification papers. In the morning, only one gate is open, through which parents head off to work and children go to school. At night, the gate is locked, preventing street loiterers from trespassing. The area, Shoubaozhuang, is not one of the affluent, gated residential compounds springing up around Beijing, but a poor village of rural migrants toiling at low-paying jobs. It was chosen, along with 15 other areas in the Daxing district of Beijing, to be walled off to outsiders, in what officials say is an experimental effort to curb crime. The authorities say the experiment has been a success -- the Communist Party-run People's Daily said the crime rate in the walled villages in Daxing district dropped by 73 percent from April to July this year -- and the ''walled village'' concept is being quickly expanded to other districts outside Beijing's center that are populated by migrant workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. government not to conduct an investigation over allegations that the currency policies of China serve as export subsidies for Chinese aluminum and coat paper manufacturers despite evidence showing that the Chinese government unfairly subsidized aluminum exports worth 514 million dollars to the country in 2009.

BEIJING -- For China's investigative journalists, who grapple with heavy-handed censors and accusations of bribe-taking, the case of a Shanghai-based reporter appears to offer a positive turn. The episode did not start auspiciously for the reporter, Qiu Ziming, 28. He went into hiding this week after county police in Zhejiang Province announced they were seeking his arrest for reporting on accusations of insider trading at a paper company in a four-part series in The Economic Observer, a well-regarded weekly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on law enforcement authorities in Suichang County, China who would be required by Lishui City officials to apologize to Chinese business reporter Qiu Ziming after they put him on a wanted list for articles criticizing local paper manufacturer Zhejiang Kan Specialty Material Co. in July 2010.

HONG KONG -- Spreading problems in Europe's sovereign debt markets pose potential challenges for China, which has been stepping up its investments in European government bonds and relies on Europe as its biggest export market. The turmoil that Europe's difficulty has caused in financial markets already appears to have caused tens of billions of dollars in paper losses in China's foreign exchange reserves. And the problems may complicate the timing of an expected Chinese move to break the informal peg of the Chinese renminbi to the dollar, Chinese and Western economists and bankers said on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LAST month, on the same day The New York Times praised Google for standing up to censorship in China, a sister newspaper, The International Herald Tribune, apologized to Singapore's rulers and agreed to pay damages because it broke a 1994 legal agreement and referred to them in a way they did not like. The rulers had sued for defamation 16 years ago, saying a Herald Tribune Op-Ed column had implied that they got their jobs through nepotism. The paper wound up paying $678,000 and promising not to do it again. But in February, it named Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister, and his son, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister now, in an Op-Ed article about Asian political dynasties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the plan of the European Commission to conduct an investigation into Chinese subsidies allegedly provided by the Chinese government to domestic coated fine paper producers as Japan threatens to file an unfair global trade practice complaint against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The bodies of 21 babies were found in plastic bags in a river in northeast China, state media reported Tuesday. The bodies, some in bags marked ''medical waste,'' others with hospital identification tags on their toes, were recovered Sunday and Monday from a river in Jining, a city in Shandong Province. The authorities said at least 15 bodies appeared to be of aborted fetuses or infants who had died at Jining Medical College Hospital, state media said. Hospital officials could not be reached for comment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that over the past few months, the U.S. has taken actions in cases involving Chinese-made tires, nylon, steel pipe, coated paper, phosphate salt, strategic raw materials and computer software, which China has denounced as abusive protectionism.

Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter from South Africa, was cleared to race against able-bodied athletes in the Beijing Olympics a year and a half ago. Now, however, a new study argues that his prosthetic legs may give him an unfair advantage after all. In a paper to be published Thursday in The Journal of Applied Physiology, the researchers Peter Weyand and Matthew Bundle say that the prosthetics, known as Cheetahs, allow Pistorius to turn over his strides more quickly and with more power than a runner with biological legs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the criticism received by the U.S. federal government's decision to impose import duties on Chinese steel pipe from the Chinese government that called such move as a form of abusive protectionism, as both countries proceed with new trade probes on November 6, 2009. The United Steelworkers filed the cases against the tire, steel and coated-paper industries in China. The Ministry of Commerce announced that it has started its probes into imports of some U.S. vehicles for alleged dumping or unfair trade.

High blood pressure is the leading preventable cause of death in China, causing 2.3 million deaths a year, researchers reported on Monday. Their paper, released online by The Lancet, was done by scientists at Tulane University, the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease in Beijing and other institutions. It was based on a study of nearly 170,000 Chinese ages 40 or over who were first gathered in 1991 for medical exams that included blood pressure tests. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an antipornography campaign that many China experts see as a harbinger of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression and dissent. In the past month, central government officials have cited a need to control pornography in ordering that filtering software be preinstalled on all new computers sold in China starting July 1. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have released a research report arguing that the Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were rooted in legitimate grievances brought about by failed government policies -- and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The lengthy paper is the result of interviews conducted over a month in two Tibetan regions. It represents the first independent investigation into the causes of the widespread protests, which the Chinese government harshly suppressed. It blamed the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala for the unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A civilian Defense Department employee who worked with the United States Pacific Command has been charged with conspiring to pass classified military information to China, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday by the Justice Department. The employee, James W. Fondren Jr., 62, a deputy director of the Washington liaison office of the Pacific Command, was charged with turning over several documents to an agent for the Chinese intelligence service between November 2004 and February 2008. The documents, taken from a classified computer, included opinion papers about Chinese military capabilities, according to a Justice Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because is not authorized to speak to the news media. Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican representative from Arkansas who is a lawyer for Mr. Fondren, said, ''Mr. Fondren did not knowingly at any time give any classified information to any agent of the People's Republic of China.'' Mr. Fondren, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the second Pentagon employee to be caught up in what federal authorities called an espionage ring that had been run by Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalized United States citizen from Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating ''an imminent generation of excess men,'' a study released Friday said. For the next 20 years, China will have increasingly more men than women of reproductive age, according to the paper, which was published online by the British Medical Journal. ''Nothing can be done now to prevent this,'' the researchers said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two officials who were disciplined for their role in last year's tainted milk scandal have been reappointed to other high-ranking government positions, a Chinese newspaper reported Thursday. One official, Bao Junkai, the deputy director of food inspection for the government's product safety agency, now heads a department in Anhui Province that inspects imports and exports. The other, Liu Daqun, the former head of agriculture in Hebei Province, has been reappointed mayor of a city in Hebei, the paper said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In another indication that China is growing increasingly concerned about holding huge dollar reserves, the head of its central bank has called for the eventual creation of a new international currency reserve to replace the dollar. In a paper released Monday, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, said a new currency reserve system controlled by the International Monetary Fund could prove more stable and economically viable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Preparing for the 50th anniversary next Tuesday of a failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule, Beijing authorities issued a white paper on Monday presenting their interpretation of Tibetan history, comparing the abolition of ''serfdom'' in Tibet under Chinese rule to the emancipation of slaves in the United States. The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan leaders have accepted that traditional Tibetan society had shortcomings, but contend that Beijing has long exaggerated the plight of Tibetan peasants and that improvements were under way before China's military action in 1959. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's accusation of currency manipulation by China. Geithner told U.S. lawmakers that President Barack Obama views that China is manipulating its currency. This accusation made its way on paper and was corresponded to Chinese officials which is causing speculations about protectionism in the administration of President Obama to run in Beijing.

A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world. The men were sentenced by a court in the city of Shenzhen to terms of 18 months to six and a half years in prison, according to court papers released late Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the milk scandal in China which is threatening to kill one of the country's most cherished product: White Rabbit Creamy Candy. The chewy, milk-based candy which is wrapped in edible rice paper is said to be the favorite of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. When babies started getting sick from drinking melamine-laced formula powder, milk products were pulled out from shelves forcing White Rabbit, now owned by Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan Food Ltd., to recall its products from Finland to Wisconsin.

In addition to everything else the Chinese invented -- ink, paper, movable type, gunpowder and the rest -- they should probably be given at least partial credit for field hockey. The Olympic version of the game began to be codified in the late 19th century by the British, who exported it to their colonies. It is not an accident that many of the modern field hockey powers, like India, Pakistan and Australia, were all part of the empire. But for 1,000 years, the Daur people of Inner Mongolia have been playing a game called beikou, which entails whacking around a more-or-less-ball-like knob of apricot root with long wooden branches. For night games, there is an ignitable ball covered in felt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every morning at 9 a.m., they are at his door. The police come to the small room the young Uighur cook shares with several other Uighurs to check their papers -- and to see if there are new arrivals from his homeland of Xinjiang. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After investing a fortune in its rowing program because that sport is rich with gold-medal opportunities, the Chinese watched two medal chances vanish over the weekend. But not on the water -- on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the efforts of China to improve its firefighting and rescue services following the earthquake that hit the nation on May 12, 2008. According to fire officials, shortages of men and equipment hindered early rescue efforts. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Security's Fire Protection Bureau cited the plan of the government to add more fire fighters. Based on a 2006 policy paper, almost a quarter of the country's counties had no fire departments.

The article notes certain indications that China will not honor its promise to the International Olympic Committee in 2001 that it would permit free media access to both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the country as a whole. It cites the case of senior reporter Norman Choy of the "Apple Daily," a pro-democracy paper that publishes editions in Hong Kong and Taiwan, who was turned away at the Beijing airport on July 1, 2008. According to Reporters Without Borders, it has received related complaints mostly from freelance European journalists.

-- One day in February 2005, F.B.I. agents fished a pile of paper scraps from the trash of Chi Mak, an engineer for a California defense contractor. Painstakingly reconstructed, the torn-up notes turned out to be what the bureau believed were instructions for Mr. Mak on what technical information to steal and deliver to China. Mr. Mak, who emigrated from China three decades ago and became a United States citizen in 1985, was sentenced last month to 24 years in prison for illegally exporting controlled information and lying about it. Addressing the judge who said he had betrayed the United States, Mr. Mak, 67, protested: ''I never intended to hurt this country. I love this country.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author reflects on the factors causing the consideration of the U.S. to boycott China. He points out that such consideration will not happen because the U.S. is vastly invested in economy as major trading partner and depository of American money for plants, production, and principal. Another factor is the expanding investment of China as purchaser of U.S. treasury notes and bonds, and other federal paper.

This section offers news briefs in China. State Council opted to let fuel and electricity prices remain as they were as the Chinese new year approaches in an effort to ease consumer expectations on inflation. The country has banned the use of plastic shopping bags and called for a return to the cloth bags of old.

The article concerns China's latest record monthly trade surplus in 2007. It is inferred that the country's trade surplus will ensure continued debate over trade and currency policies at economic summits with its trading partners, the U.S. and Europe. Merchandise exports from China increased by 22.3% to $107.7 billion in October. The slowdown to the cumulative impact of currency appreciation and Chinese tax changes have been attributed by economists to industries such as paper and metal processing.

The article reports on the economic implications of the plan of China to cut oil supply and capacity of certain sectors. The cuts will lessen competition in favor of bigger, state-owned companies. Since many small companies are privately held, equity investors are likely to be affected by their closure. Major players in paper, cement and steel industries are likely to benefit from decreased competition resulting from the closure of smaller companies.

The article reports on the decline in the number of people living in Poverty in China in 2007, as announced at a poverty conference co-hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute held in Beijing, China in 2007. Stockholm University professor Peter Svedberg also reported during the event that the number of stunted and underweight Chinese children had halved in the 10 years to 2002. Based on the papers released at the conference, it has been found that poverty is rapidly becoming a South Asian and African problem.

The article reports that the U.S. has reaffirmed its provisional policy of imposing tax on certain Chinese imports. Imposing duties on certain imports could pave the way for possible tariff increases on a variety of imports. The U.S. Commerce Department has decided to relax duties on glossy paper from China.

The article reports that China's Ministry of Finance has sold a 31.97 billion yuan of debt in its special bonds offering to the market on September 17, 2007. It states that the bonds are included in a 1.55 trillion yuan in paper that the ministry is selling to fund the acquisition of foreign exchange from the central bank for its planned investment firm.