From ABC News: Surging food prices boosted China’s annual consumer price inflation in May to a 27-month high, extending a rising trend and reinforcing expectations that interest rates will rise further. Inflation quickened to 3.4 percent last month from 3 percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. Food prices, which make […]
Read MoreToday Reuters reports on Guiyu, a Chinese e-wasteland: Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals like gold and copper. [Full text] For […]
Read MoreAl Jazeera interviews Jing Kui, a 93 year old barber who has lived in Beijing for over 70 years. Jing talks about the dramatic changes he has witnessed in Beijing through the Cultural Revolution all the way to its preparation for the Olympics today. My name is Jing Kui. This year I’m 93. When I […]
Read MoreFrom LifeNews.com: A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that women who are victims of forced abortions in China, under that nation’s one-child family planing policy, can seek asylum in the United States. The decision comes after a rash of dozens of forced abortions in southwestern China that led to massive protests… The ruling came […]
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