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 VOA News: There are conflicting reports about whether a test run of traffic controls in Beijing less than one year before the 2008 Summer Olympics has been effective in improving air quality in the Chinese capital. Chinese state media reported Tuesday that the city’s overall air quality improved during the four-day test, which removed […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s central bank raised the benchmark interest rates on Tuesday for the fourth time this year in an effort to prevent the economy from overheating and curb accelerating inflation. The one-year deposit rate will increase 27 basis points to 3.60 percent, while one-year lending rate will rise by 18 basis points to […]
Read MoreBelow is an introduction video of Chines acrobatics: – See previous Acrobatics video “Chinese Ballet Circus pas de deux troupe du Guangdong” via CDT
Read MoreA chain of Dutch bed stores say that 728 foam mattresses from China were tested containing poision, from AP via Taipei Times: …Beter Bed Holding announced the recall after tests on a shipping container holding more than 700 mattresses found they contained poison, possibly as a result of being sprayed to kill insects in wooden […]
Read MoreBBC’s reporter Michael Bristow finished his trip in Tibet and contributed three articles “looking at the economic, cultural and religious impact of being governed as an autonomous region of China.” Below is a part of his answers to the questions readers asked about his trip: …It is very hard for me to understand how you […]
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