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 Reuters: A Chinese activist who fought forced evictions and was jailed for two years for disturbing court order has died hours after he was released on medical parole, a New York-based human rights watchdog said on Friday. Shanghai authorities had repeatedly rejected applications by Chen Xiaoming’s family to release him on parole for treatment […]
Read MoreFrom AP via MSNBC: Thousands of villagers in southern China clashed with police during a protest over what they say is inadequate compensation for farmland flooded by a dam project, according to news reports Wednesday. Hong Kong’s Mingpao Newspaper reported that about 10,000 villagers repeatedly engaged police over a four-day period last week when they […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: The former transport chief of east China’s Zhejiang Province has been sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes. Zhao Zhanqi, 58, took 6.2 million yuan (US$816,000) in bribes from 1994 to 2006, Huzhou Intermediate People’s Court heard.Zhao held the posts of vice director of the provincial development and planning […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China is under “very heavy pressure” to meet targets for reducing the amount of energy used to drive the world’s fastest-growing major economy after missing last year’s goal, a government official said. “Among all provinces in China, only Beijing met the target of cutting energy consumption by 4 percent,” Xie Fuzhan, head of […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: After two consecutive years of government price adjustments and controls on real estate, prices are still jumping upward rather than declining. Shenzhen is indisputably the bellwether of this rising tide: housing prices in Shenzhen leaped 50% in the first half of this year. Shenzhen has been going through an unprecedented real estate boom […]
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