Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
As Beijing restricts odd-numbered cars to driving on odd days and even-numbered cars to driving on even days in a test-run of its Olympics traffic reduction plan, one of the city’s more prominent and irreverent bloggers fantasizes about the potential of “odd-even” (ÂçïÂèåÂè∑Ôºârestrictions to solve some of the country’s other problems. Translated by CDT: Citizens […]
Read MoreThe number of lightning-related deaths is nearly double what it was this time last year. Via CNN.com: All of the victims were villagers, and 79 percent were working in the fields when they were struck, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. About two-thirds died between late June and mid-August. Large swathes of China […]
Read MoreLatest news in the China product safety controversy has vice-premier and veteran crisis manager Wu Yi (Âꥉª™ ) stepping in to calm things down. Once described by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as a “force of nature,” Wu consistently ranks near the top in Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s most powerful women. From the […]
Read MoreMembers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO; ‰∏äʵ∑Âêà‰ΩúÁªÑÁªá ) held their largest ever war games yesterday in the Ural Mountains. The games, dubbed “Peace Mission 2007,” included troops from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Via The Hindu: Fighter jets whizzed overhead, airborne troops baled out from transport planes, tanks and armoured personnel carriers […]
Read MoreTwo weeks after the dramatic rescue of 69 workers from a flooded mine in Henan Province, more than twice that number have been trapped under similar circumstances in a coal mine in Shandong. From the Washington Post: Zhang Dekuan, a senior Shandong province official, told the agency that 756 miners were working in the shaft […]
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