Sophia Cao is an undergraduate business student at Baruch College in New York. She is interested in Chinese culture and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on multimedia.
From China Daily: American fast-food giants McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) are being bombarded for their work contracts which offer their part-time Chinese employees just four yuan per hour, well under the state requirement, state media reported. An employee is entitled to no less than 4.3 yuan per work hour, said a rule released […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC: The world’s tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday. Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman Xia Shujian several days ago, the Beijing New reported….[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: China has found a huge offshore oil field that could become the energy-hungry country’s biggest new oil source in a decade, a state news agency said Wednesday. The scale of the discovery, if confirmed, would be welcome news to Beijing, which is struggling to reduce reliance on oil imports to fuel […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadialogue: Development in China has come at a price. During its rapid industrialisation, the country has come to utilise large amounts of coal for power generation, industrial boilers and domestic heating. Not much attention was paid to controlling soot and dust emissions, and still less to emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides – […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Ten years ago, Xu ZhenÔºàXu’s siteÔºâ was the archetypal garret-dwelling artist, scraping a living in a Shanghai apartment with barely room to swing a cat. To prove the point, he found a cat and swung it. The artist claims that the animal was already dead when he made the 45-minute performance video, […]
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