From keralanext.com: Police in southwest China’s border province of Yunnan seized 9.6 tons of drugs in the first 11 months this year, more than double the four tons seized in the whole of 2005. “The amount of drugs seized accounts for 80 percent of the national total during this period,” Sun Dahong, deputy director of […]
Read MoreFrom scotsman.com: It is the case of China’s disappearing Great Wall. A British researcher has found that some sections of the once 4,000-mile long structure are being stolen or vandalised. William Lindesay, a 50-year-old British geologist-turned-writer, has compared pictures of the wall taken a century ago with the structure as it is today and found […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: The Emperor’s New Clothes was the literary reference of choice for a number of Chinese commentators this week. On 26 December, People’s Daily printed the following letter: We are students at Nandan County High School in Guangxi. This November 19, the teachers and students of Nandan High School and Nandan #2 High […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the International Herald Tribune: China had a hot and disastrous year in 2006, with average temperatures the highest since 1951, state media reported Sunday. Xinhua News Agency said temperatures were on average 1 degree higher than in normal years. Meteorological officials were quoted as saying there was less rain than normal, down […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The Chinese government last week announced the disgrace of another senior Communist Party official accused of corruption. Du Shicheng, it said, was stripped of his posts as deputy party secretary of Shandong province and party secretary of Qingdao city because of a “serious discipline violation.” Nothing was said about what misdeeds […]
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