From The China Blog, Time: If China’s boom has a group of unrecognized heroes it must surely be the 120 million or so migrant workers whose labor is the force that keeps the huge dynamo turning. Migrants do all the grunt work that no one else wants to take on, toiling in mines, constructions sites […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Yahoo’s China portal will be reorganized as a business-oriented search engine, the company’s head announced Monday, saying it had to change or fail amid intense competition from domestic rivals. Jack Ma, CEO of e-commerce company Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo’s China operations, said specialization would help ward off competition from search leader Baidu […]
Read MoreFrom newkerala.com: With jobs hard to get in the highly competitive Chinese market, graduates are now stalking the corridors of holy temples. Famen Temple, one of the four most famous Buddhist Temples in ancient China, has employed four graduate students and five with bachelors degrees. They were selected at a job market at Northwest Agriculture […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: An attack on the traditional healing arts has inflamed adherents and sparked a debate about Western healthcare. The fur is flying, not to mention the acupuncture needles, the firewort and the $15,000-a-pound bull gallstones. China’s ancient healing arts, as integral to national identity as the Great Wall or steamed dumplings, have become […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices: First blind abortion rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng was charged in August last year for destruction of property and instigating a riot and sentenced to four years in prison, and land rights lawyer Guo Feixiong was arrested in September charged with running an illegal printing press out of his home, terms of sentence […]
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