From Courier Mail: China’s largest lake, holy to Tibetans but suffering from global warming and desertification, may vanish in two centuries even as the government pledges $870 million to stop it shrinking, Xinhua news agency said today. Desertification had been brought about by overgrazing around Lake Qinghai, in the remote western province of Qinghai, which […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph Blog: Last night I managed to fulfill a long-held ambition by going to see a performance of the stirring revolutionary ballet, The Red Detachment of Women. Here’s a photo, and you can see a string of others at this lecturer’s website from New York University. They give you a flavour of the thing. […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: A roadside bomb in southern China killed two children who found the explosive wrapped in a package and began playing with it, Hong Kong news organizations reported Thursday. Before the explosion, which occurred Wednesday in Shenzhen, residents said that they had received threatening phone calls, and the police said […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor Twenty years ago, Mamat Atmotoyev’s refrigerator was made in Minsk and his samovar was likely to have come from the Russian city of Tula. But things have changed in his native Kyrgyzstan since the fall of the Soviet Union, and now the products that he uses every day are more […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: The police arrested three Christian church leaders in a raid on a gathering at a private home in northeastern China, a U.S.-based monitoring group reported Wednesday. About 30 police officers and officials from the local government’s Religious Affairs Bureau took part in the raid Dec. 29 on the home […]
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