A somewhat biased view on China…
As some of you know, I’m working part time for a French journalist in Beijing. He started publishing his newsletter 10 years ago and I started to help him for his website back in 2000!
I’m in the process of making the new Search Engine officially online on Thursday. Before this, I would like to ask you some help to beta test it! 
The new Engine is faster than the previous one, accepts AND and OR requests and allows the user to refine his search based on the type of documents - editorial, news, politics, money, joint-ventures, agenda and social - and the date - year and the issue numbering. You may also specify keywords that must ‘+’ or cannot ‘-’ be in the search results. For example, searching for “sras jiang -hu” as an AND search will return papers about how Jiang Zemin handled the SRAS epidemia but not related to Hu Jintao.
All the archive is available for free except for the last 20 issues for which only the editorial is free.
And, well, I’m sorry for the English speaking people around; his newsletter is written in French…
Update
The new Search Engine is now officially online!
I went to the conference yesterday. It was quite interesting. Erice Meyer told made a speech about the situation in China with a strong focus on the actions of Hu Jintao and how the Chinese President tries to improve the links between China and the Western Countries.
Links
Le vent de la Chine - Website
Old Search Engine
New Search Engine
Disneyland HK just opened its doors to the public this Monday 12th of September. In order to avoid an economic disaster similar to the one of Disneyland Paris, they took special care to include Chinese Culture from the very negining. An expert in Fengshui helped them to organize the park, the burnt incense at the end of the construction of each building and one of the ballroom is 888 square meters. I hope it will help them! 
They are expecting five to six million visitors in their opening year. If the first year goes smoothly and both the local government - owning 53% of the park - and Disney see benefits, they will start the phase two of the project.
Links
Official Website
Wikipedia
Google Maps
Shanghai Jiaotong University launched a new MBA programme on how to run a Buddhist temple. Besides of the usual MBA courses, the programme also provides lectures on temple management, philosophy and religious product marketing. The main idea is to run a temple in a commercial world to maximize the profits while staying ethical…
And it seems that the Buddhist MBA has a lot of success! Yesterday, the Jade Buddha Monastery in Shanghai sent a team of 18 monks for their first class.
The question, now, on what kind of Case Studies do they get trained…
Links
Jade Buddha Monastery
Shanghai Jiaotong University
China Daily - September 7th, 2005
China signed a US$335 million contract with Malaysia. China will exports its palm shell based paper making technology and provide the complete set of equipment for 10 production lines. The technology cover palm planting, palm oil extraction and paper making with the palm shells.
This will enable Malaysia to recycle the palm shells instead of burying them or burning them. So far, the annual production of palm shells in Malaysia reaches an annual 30 millions tons. Indonesia and Thailand have also shown some interest in the technology.
Links
News in China Daily
Guangzhou (Canton) (??) former TV Tower was finished in 1991 with its 217 meters. The new one will be the tallest tower in the world. The construction started last week on the 26th of August and is schedules to be finished in late 2007 or early 2008, just before the Olympic Games.
The roof of the tower is a 450. With its antenna of 160 meters, it makes the wall tower 610 meters for 12 floors. The tower has been designed as a climatic showcase. (more…)
This year’s Venice Film Festival will started with a Chinese Martial Arts movie from Hong Kong. ‘Seven Swords’ (??), produced by Tsui Hark (??), tells the story of seven unexpected heroes that gather to save a village from a diabolical General. Tsui Hark describes his movie as an homage to Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic ‘Seven Samurai’. Tsui Hark is famous for his movies about Wong Fei-hung, the legendary martial arts hero fighting foreign forces on one side and protecting his westernized aunt coming back from the States on the other side.
Seven Swords
And this will not be the only Chinese movie to be shown during the festival! There will also be:
A ban on students getting married, which lasted for 50 years, has be canceled by a revised college regulation. The students welcomed this news, the schools will not interfere anymore in their private matters. However, being pragmatic, most of the students - 96% of them - decide not to exercice their right and prefer waiting until the end of their studies, or even until they are economically sufficient, to get married.
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