From Shanghaiist blog: The Straits Times today tells us about 27 year old Liu Qian who “has been feted as a modern-day heroine, held up as a role model for women, and won the hearts of thousands across China”. For the past eight years, Liu was the mistress of Yao Chuanrui, a former manager of […]
Read MoreA group of youths celebrating Christmas Eve in a dancing party, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Ahead of its 17th National Congress next autumn, the power center of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun to restructure its anti-graft system to strengthen its direct supervision of the behavior of regional officials in the hope of more effectively curbing rampant corruption. President Hu Jintao’s renewed efforts to clean China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Weird Asia Blog: A vagrant woman and her young son lived in a tomb in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, for nearly three years before police found them and contacted family members in Jiangxi Province. Zeng Liuying, 48, said she couldn’t afford railway tickets to her hometown, didn’t know how to write a letter and didn’t […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Nine foreign banks took a key step Sunday toward breaking into the Chinese retail banking industry, receiving permission to become the first international lenders to incorporate in China under World Trade Organization market-opening pledges. The banks’ local units, once incorporated, will be able to take the final step of […]
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