May First crowds – Netease
Now that the May Day holiday is over, take a look at some photos of the holiday crowds around China (link) (via Virtual China).
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
China’s new wealth threatens to take heavy toll on health – Clifford Coonan
From The Independent (link): China’s increasing wealth is stretching the country’s waistlines and threatening an epidemic of diabetes, cancer and other conditions that could kill up to 80 million people in the next 10 years, health officials say. Chinese people are typically slim, but there are many more overweight children and adults in evidence in […]
Read MoreReporters At A Mining Disaster – ESWN
From EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): Five reporters from four different media organizations were trying to cover a mining disaster in Jilin province, China. During the process, a group of men blocked their way, followed them around and ultimately assaulted them in public. Please be mindful that there is an explicit law that makes it a crime […]
Read MoreChina Poised to Crack Down on Foreign Law Firms – China Confidential
From China Confidential blog (link): China is apparently poised to crack down on foreign law firms operating within its borders, as shown by a menacing memorandum issued by the Shanghai Lawyers Association. China Law Blog obtained the memo from a Chinese lawyer and shared a copy with China Confidential. The memo details “illegal activities” that […]
Read MoreChina: The Biggest Migration Ever – Open Source
The radio program Open Source had a special roundtable discussion program yesterday on “China: The Biggest Migration Ever”, (link) featuring Peter Hessler, Li Zhang, Leslie Chang, and Kenneth Roberts: China’s “floating population” is rapidly shifting the country from an agrarian society to an industrialized one ” thereby changing the social fabric of the countryside and […]
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