From Shanghai Daily: CHINA is preparing to make its citizens’ marital status details available online to prevent bigamy, sources with the Civil Affairs Ministry said yesterday. A nationwide network of online databases will be completed by 2010, said a document issued by the ministry. In 2005, the ministry instructed provincial marriage registration offices to begin […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: BEIJING’S Guanghe Theater will be demolished as city officials intend to replace the unsafe ancient structure with a state-of-the-art facility. The opera theater was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and is the oldest in the city. Beijing once boasted about 40 opera houses, most south of the Forbidden City. Of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Epoch Times: A large number of “stone eggs” were recently discovered along with a copper sword at a construction site in Bandeng Hill and Zhanlong Hill, Gongxi Town of Hunan Province. The origin of the stone eggs is currently unknown as it is reported that further analysis by experts will be required to […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China will overtake the United States as the world’s biggest emitter of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) either this year or next, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. The estimate is much firmer than the IEA’s previous forecast, last November, that on current trends China would overtake the United States before 2010. […]
Read MoreFrom the Epoch Times: More than five dozen infants have been killed in a massive forced-abortion campaign in China’s Guangxi Province in the past two days. Officials from the Population and Family Planning Commission in Baise City, Guangxi, have seized at least 61 women and forcibly transported them to the Youjiang District People’s Hospital of […]
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