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From China Daily: China’s first survey on gay men entitled “Chinese MSM (men who have sex with men): survey on sex and the state of self-identity” was completed in Beijing recently. This 650,000-character report, supported by the Ford Foundation in the United States and published by Beijing Gender Consultation Center not only presents a comprehensive […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Peter Zantal is in charge of globalization at the Port of New York. His hands are more than full. Every week, 24 ships disgorge thousands of containers, most of them arriving from Hong Kong and Shanghai via the Panama Canal. Their cargos are unloaded within 18 hours. Cellphones, refrigerators and computers – […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: LAST week’s Chinese New Year holiday brought, literally, a rare breath of fresh air to Hong Kong. With thousands of mainland factories temporarily closed, the choking toxic smog that regularly envelops the city cleared briefly. As it did, a question struck me: what if China – or, more precisely, its domestic economy […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: In the latest case of unrest afflicting the Chinese countryside, at least 15 people were wounded, some seriously, when a gun battle broke out in a land dispute between two villages in the southern province of Guangdong. Residents said tension that had been brewing for years intensified in the fall, […]
Read MoreFrom Ohmynews: Today’s China is a capitalist society in almost all respects except for the political governance of the Communist Party. It is commonly understood that China, ranked last year as the world’s 5th largest economy, is really more capitalistic than any capitalist country, while outwardly claiming to be a socialist nation. Therefore, Marxism-Leninism, the […]
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