Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
From Financial Times: Almost 3m members of China’s ruling Communist party work for private companies, after a four-year drive to tighten ties with the fast-growing sector. The push by the world’s largest political organisation has resulted in 80 per cent more party organisations in non-state enterprises, state media said on Tuesday. In 2002 there were […]
Read MoreFollowing a bar on new internet cafes, a new regulation encourages underage gamers at internet cafes to stop playing and “do suitable physical exercise.” From eFluxMedia: Chinese authorities are targeting a national...
Read MoreWhile Shanghai plans to develop wetlands, other wetlands are drying up. From AP via MSNBC: Less water flows down China’s two biggest rivers now than 40 years ago because global warming is drying up the wetlands that feed them, a state news agency reported Monday, citing Chinese scientists. Xinhua News Agency said scientists of the […]
Read MoreAdding to the list of human rights offenses, activists cite Chinese government’s treatment of North Korean refugees as a reason to boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics. From Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: U.S. human rights activists urged people not to travel to Beijing to see the 2008 Olympics unless China grants the U.N. refugee agency access […]
Read MoreA group of women washes clothes in murky river water, from miscellaneous chemistry via Flickr.
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