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 BBC News: China is the world’s largest sulphur dioxide polluter, emitting nearly 26m tons of the gas in 2005. This was a 27% increase since 2000 and coincided with a rise in coal consumption, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said. The gas contributes to acid rain, which damages buildings, soil and crops, and […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Detroit Free Press: Hope of joining China’s growing middle class drove Xiang Jun Mei, a poor rice farmer’s daughter, to hawk Mary Kay products to everyone she met. Wang Di started selling the American cosmetics to spice up her days of wifely chores and to earn the respect of her executive husband. […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: As provinces in eastern and southern China battle floods triggered by typhoons, more than five million people across rest of the country are facing drought. The shortage in rainfall has disrupted the temporary drinking water supply for 1.3 million people in the southwestern province of Guizhou, and affected more than 6,67,170 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese police have seized thousands of guns and tonnes of illegal explosives two months after launching a national campaign to crackdown on illegal weapons, state media said on Tuesday. In the southwestern province of Sichuan, 5,500 guns, including pistols, hunting rifles, and home-made and military weapons had been seized, Xinhua news agency said, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: When Zhou Long is wielding his knife on a pig, he doesn’t look like the 24-year-old university graduate who majored in law from China’s Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SUPSL) that he really is. “I never expected that I would sell pork one day while I pursued my studies at […]
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