Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
From AP, via The Washington Post: A thousand college students rioted in central China this week, scuffling with police and overturning cars after city inspectors beat a female student, a human rights group said Thursday. Hundreds of police were called for backup as students from three universities surrounded the two inspectors who had assaulted the […]
Read MoreA BBC News article attributes the rising cost of electricity in the UK, a burden for the poor, in part to carbon trading and questions whether the system induces actual reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: Europeans are paying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in China as part of the continent’s efforts to tackle global warming. […]
Read MoreLi Guoqiao, a professor at the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, found the plant extract artemisinin to be a very effective cure for malaria some thirty years ago. Now, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Li plans to offer mass treatments of the antimalarial drugs to the people on the island of Moheli, […]
Read MoreA video on YouTube, reaching out to an audience outside of China, narrates the Wuxi water pollution situation with a photo slideshow, concluding with the message: “My dear foreign friends, please help to stop your capitalists earn their fortunes at the expense of our future.”
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star Online: A strong earthquake hit a tea-making city in southwest China early on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 200, causing houses to collapse and damaging roads, Xinhua news agency and a local official said. The earthquake shook the city of Pu’er and the surrounding area in mountainous Yunnan […]
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