Beijing Official Seeks To Calm Microsoft Controversy
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Beijing has been debating a policy proposal that will force the city to spend at least half of its IT budget on offerings from local companies.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Official Urges Legislature To Hold Governments Accountable for Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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China has gently urged Burma's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor.
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A Chinese Communist Party official on Wednesday promised a "clean" 2008 Olympics, one day after the party expelled the Beijing vice mayor in charge of Olympic construction projects, accusing him of bribery and other charges, state media said.
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The Beijing municipal government has apparently given in to mounting domestic criticism and withdrawn its recent order for computer operating systems and office suite software from United States giant Microsoft.
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(InfoWorld) - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao described reports of Chinese hackers breaking into German computers as a matter of "grave concern" and said Monday that his country will cooperate with Germany to resolve the matter. Jiabao's comments, made during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Beijing, were prompted by a report published two days earlier in the German news magazine Der Spiegel claiming that Chinese hackers had been able to infect German government computers with spyware. Merkel said that for Chinese relations with industrialized countries to move ahead, everyone needs to "respect a set of game rules" and "protect intellectual property rights." Security experts from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and Federal Data Protection Office discovered Trojan horse programs in computers used in several government ministries, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Economics and the Research and Development Ministry, as well as Merkel's office, the report in Der Spiegel said. Although the first Trojan horse software was detected in May, there are continued attempts to sneak spyware into government computers via the Internet, according to Spiegel. Security experts monitoring data traffic were able to stop the transmission of a 160G-byte file from a German ministry to China, but no one would say if hackers succeeded in stealing other files, the magazine reported. BSI and the Federal Data Protection Office declined to comment. A spokesman at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, while declining to comment on the Spiegel story specifically, said that the federal government, in general, is aware of increased efforts to steal information from computers in the private and public sectors. "We are making a huge effort to ensure that government systems remain protected from outside attacks," the spokesman said. "So far, we've been able to avoid any damage." (Information from pool reporters located in Beijing was used in this report.)
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The US treasury secretary is in Beijing for critical talks with China on trade, exchange rates and data piracy.
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Determined to avoid a repeat of the construction delays that threatened the Athens Games, Olympic officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Chinese president tells Communist Party officials to create a 'healthy online culture.'
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China should pay more attention to shoring up its product safety supervision network rather than apportioning blame for recent problems, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday.
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In a conciliatory tone, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he was hopeful about future dealings between the U.S. and China.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived Sunday in Beijing for a two-day visit after holding talks in Tokyo. China expects &quot;to have an extensive exchange of views&quot; with the
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, Feb.
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A senior Iranian diplomat arrived in Beijing on Thursday for discussions over Tehran's nuclear standoff, while China repeated its position that the deepening conflict should be resolved through negotiation.
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WASHINGTON Nov 1, 2004 - The State Department will ask the Chinese government about comments by a former senior Chinese official who accused President Bush of trying to &quot;rule over the whole world.
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China wants a two-track approach in trying to resolve the dispute with Iran over its nuclear program Â a revitalized diplomatic initiative along with a new U.N. resolution on sanctions, Beijing's U.N. ambassador said Thursday,