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 Yahoo News (link): Global press leaders told China to stop Internet censorship and free all detained cyber-dissidents, and they slammed Western companies that helped it develop software that prevents Chinese citizens from accessing information on human rights and democracy. They called on China “to end its pervasive censorship of the Internet, release all journalists […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online (link): Against the backdrop of falling international crude oil prices and the revaluation of the renminbi, the National Development and Reform Committee has once again enhanced the sales price of refined oil. Prices for #93 gasoline in greater Beijing are at an historical high. The explanation from the parties concerned is […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily (link): Experts warned yesterday that the Yangtze River has become so “cancerous” with pollution that it is threatening the safety of drinking water in Shanghai and other cities along its banks. The effluents in some sections of China’s longest river are getting worse, and the Yangtze will become […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (link): Fewer people in Beijing and Shanghai are willing to live a “double income no kid”(DINK‰∏ÅÂÖã) lifestyle after marriage, 3 percentage points less than three years ago, and the reasons couples’ are having children has also changed, Beijing Morning Post reported today. Many couples decided to have a child to continue their […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): It is going to come as a shock to tens of millions of lungs, but the Chinese government is planning a tobacco-free Olympics when the world’s heaviest smoking nation hosts the event in 2008. “Let a smokeless games provide healthy competition, a healthy environment and a healthy lifestyle,” the health ministry […]
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