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.
CNN carried the report of coal miner’s latest tragedy of China’s “deadly industry.” Sixty-nine miners have been trapped in a flooded central Chinese coal mine operating above its design capacity, state media reported on Monday. Rescuers pumped out water and drilled holes to provide oxygen to the miners who were swamped after a flash flood […]
Read MoreBBC News reports that thirty companies have been on the “blacklist of pollution violators;” China will miss its target “of cutting the emission of pollutants by 10% between 2005 to 2010.” As Beijing moves to take action on the country’s growing pollution problem, the 30 firms will be barred from receiving bank loans. The companies […]
Read MoreEven if China has taken actions to save its image after a series of tainted Chinese goods, it still faces the international pressure. From The New York Times: …”This is a very concerted effort to show they are doing something,” said Russell Leigh Moses, a longtime political analyst based in Beijing. “They are using work […]
Read MoreABC News carried the report that “police in northern China have arrested four Catholic priests who refused to join the state-controlled Catholic Church.” From AFP via ABC News: Liang Aijun, 35, Wang Zhong, 41, and Gao Jinbao, 34 – all from Hebei province – were transferred to an undisclosed location after their capture, the Cardinal […]
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