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From China Daily (link): Rural development and currency reform are the hot issues at China’s annual session of parliament opening this week, but some delegates have quirkier matters on their minds. Li Yinhe, a sociologist and member of the advisory body to parliament, plans to submit a proposal on same-sex marriage, aiming to end discrimination […]
Read MoreFrom the Art Newspaper (link): China and Italy have signed a treaty aimed at preventing the looting and illicit export of antiquities. The agreement was signed in Beijing by Shan Jixiang director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Italian Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione to mark the launch of the year of Italy in […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online (link): Hosting the Olympics means doing a lot more than building a few stadiums, as Beijing is finding out. On Wednesday the Chinese authorities launched a campaign to clean up the way people in the city behave. One of the biggest challenges is to ban public spitting. In preparation for the 2008 […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC (link): Dr Liu Quan trudges 20km (12 miles) a day along Sichuan’s muddy mountain paths on his rounds. A village doctor for the past 55 years, he was just 15 when he started practising as a third-generation herbalist. In the 1970s he received simple training under Chairman Mao’s programme to send “barefoot […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via the Standard (link): Hundreds of people have been detained as authorities crack down on dissent before the National People’s Congress, petitioners and a rights lawyer said. Police raided hostels near the south Beijing train station Tuesday night and rounded up more than 400 people who had come to air their grievances through […]
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