From Reuters: Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six police officers, a local shopkeeper and domestic press said on Wednesday. The violence in the eastern city of Chizhou was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: About 1.5 million Chinese die of apoplexy each year on average, making the disease the second largest killer and the leading cause of physical deformity in the country, according to the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). Wang Yongjun, a professor with the association’s neurology branch, said that currently 7 million Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Xinhua: “If I’m not in the teahouse, I’m on the way there” is a popular Chinese saying. Chinese teahouses are the traditional ancient cafes of the east, for getting together and chewing the fat and generally passing the time. In recent years the tradition has been revitalized, becoming fashionable in modern […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: In February 2003, Chinese television viewers watched premier-designate Wen Jiabao celebrate Chinese New Year 720 metres down a coal mine in Fuxin, a poor town in northeast China’s industrial rustbelt. Mr Wen shared dumplings with miners and expressed his gratitude for their contribution to the nation’s modernisation. This homely propaganda exercise […]
Read MoreFrom the Khaleej Times Online: Seven convicted drug traffickers were put to death in China in the run up to the UN-sponsored International Anti-Drug Day, bringing to 22 the number executed in the past two days, state press said on Saturday… Public sentencing rallies where the convicted are paraded before large crowds were also held […]
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