Sophia Cao is an undergraduate business student at Baruch College in New York. She is interested in Chinese culture and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on multimedia.
From the Chicago Tribune: The Pearl River Delta was the incubator of China’s economic transformation, where special economic zones gave free markets a fighting chance against central government control. With the rise of industrial development came some of the world’s worst air pollution. Now, for the first time, the smog stretching from the city of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said that the government will strengthen the sanitary work in rural areas as a part of the country’s public health campaign dating back to 1952. Wu reiterated a series of measures to be taken to prevent diseases and improve the health condition of people living […]
Read MoreFrom CNNMoney.com: Even managers at Mellon Asset Management admit to being surprised at the opening-day reception for their newest mutual fund. Within hours after launching on Sept. 13, their Southern Global Enhanced Balanced Fund sold more than $2 billion in shares, and by day’s end, it had attracted some $8 billion. The biggest surprise: Shares […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The Chinese authorities are in the midst of an unusually harsh crackdown on the Internet, closing tens of thousands of websites that had allowed visitors to post their opinions, according to bloggers and Internet monitors in China. The new censorship wave appears linked to next month’s 17th Communist Party Congress, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is one of the closest allies of the ruling junta in Burma, but so far it has not made any public comment about the protests there. Traditionally, Beijing says that it does not comment on – or interfere in – other countries’ internal affairs. But China will be concerned about two […]
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