From Financial Times: China will set up a new anti-graft agency to ferret out corruption amidst a string cases involving high-level officials and wealthy businessmen. Gan Yisheng, secretary general of the Communist party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, announced the new agency at a press conference Tuesday, a day after state media reported the detention […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via CNN.com: Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine’s Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China. Nowhere more so than in Shanghai, China’s showcase city for the economic reforms of the last three decades, a financial hub which is once more rediscovering its glory pre-World War II days when […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Much to the chagrin of many prospective American parents, China has decided to make it more difficult to adopt Chinese orphans. But is it holding back the prospects of millions of orphaned girls finding homes because it is embarrassed by a pernicious side-effect of the one-child policy? Whether the new rules for […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: A billionairess in east China’s economically booming Zhejiang province, has been detained on charges of illegal fund raising, the Dongyang police said Monday. 26-year-old Wu Ying has allegedly pooled fund illegally by promising high interest rates to the creditors, the police said. Local police has her shops and businesses controlled. The Dongyang government […]
Read MoreMore and more Chinese are putting the details of their salaries online. A Yi, an associate professor at Beijing University, posted a break-down of his monthly salary on his blog in September of last year. His post attracted more than 850,000 clicks in the first week, according to China News. A Yi is neither the […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
