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 China Daily: Illegal land acquisition is posing a grave threat to the country’s diminishing arable land, a senior land official warned Monday. Improper land use also hurts farmers’ interests and threatens social stability, Gan Zangchun, deputy State land inspector-general of the Ministry of Land and Resources, said. “Violations of land laws and regulations have […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: For the third year in a row, the Beijing Pop Festival attracted thousands of music lovers to the Chinese capital. But this year was different. Anti-establishment bands from the West played alongside controversial local rocker Cui Jian — whose songs became anthems to the 1989 student movement. It was a rare opportunity […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Talks due to start this week on the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme have been postponed, it was announced today. The six-party talks between Russia, China, the US, Japan and North and South Korea were aimed at setting a timetable for final decommissioning of the state’s nuclear capabilities. They were […]
Read MoreA new outbreak of bird flu in Guangzhou has been confirmed by China’s agricultural ministry after thousands of ducks died in a village days ago. From AFP: The ministry said Saturday that 9,830 ducks had died in a village outside the southern city of Guangzhou, not far from the border with Hong Kong, between September […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org: The Chinese government will build about 160,000 embankment dams on the tributaries of the Yellow River over the next 17 years to prevent soil erosion and filter out silt from the water, according to a senior water resources official. The long-term project involves a combined investment of 83 billion yuan (around […]
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