Photo: A worshipper at a church in Shanghai, by monkeyking
A worshipper at a church in Shanghai, by monkeyking
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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.
War of the carnations as farmers buttonholed on royalties – Leo Lewis
From Times Online (link): THEY have clashed over history books, fought legal skirmishes over trade tariffs and nearly come to blows over gas-drilling rights. Now a new dispute has erupted between Japan and China ” the carnation wars. From the delicate Madame Augier to the spray of Atletic Schubert, dozens of varieties of carnation have […]
Read MoreChina Demands Albania Return Asylum Seekers – Edward Cody
From the Washington Post (link): China demanded Tuesday that five Chinese Muslims flown to Albania after release from the special U.S. prison at Guantanamo be turned over to Chinese authorities for prosecution as terrorists. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said Albania’s decision to accept the five and consider their application for political asylum on […]
Read MoreStudents put China’s spin on Web – Howard W. French
From the International Herald Tribune (link): To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed of a little extra spring in her step, but otherwise decidedly ordinary. And for Hu, in her second year at Shanghai Normal University, coming across as ordinary […]
Read MoreMore locals in Three Gorges Dam area to be resettled – Xinhua
From Xinhua (link): Some 80,000 residents in the Three Gorges dam area in central China are to be resettled to pave the way for the water to rise from 135 meters to 156 meters this year. Ruan Limin, deputy director of the Chongqing Resettlement Bureau, said the resettlement program, in phase four of the construction […]
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