From The Globe and Mail: Guiyang, China ” Here’s some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: WHO LEADS the world in jailing reporters? That’s an easy one: China has been the champion for the past six years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. At the end of 2004 its count of imprisoned professionals was 42, including several singled out by the two-year-old regime of Hu Jintao. […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: An unprecedented 100,000 Guangdong Province residents were divorced last year. The figure represents an increase of 33,754 people, or 52.6 per cent, over figures from 2003, according to sources from the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Civil Affairs. Both the number of divorcees and the rate of increase have broken records in the […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Tom and Jerry, beware! China could ban foreign-made cartoons from prime time television once the quantity and quality of domestic cartoons reach a certain level, officials at the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said Wednesday. The country already limits the ratio of foreign-made cartoons to domestic ones to 4:6, […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor : Millions of Chinese high school students can breathe a sigh of relief as the fourth and final day of national college entrance exams comes to a close Thursday. In some Chinese cities, authorities are diverting traffic, suspending construction, and banning street hawking to create a quiet, less stressful environment […]
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