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From Asahi Shimbun, via China Daily: What with real estate prices the way they are, who wouldn’t want their apartment to be a little more virtual? And with free love thrown in to boot? Almost half a million Chinese seem to feel the same way, if the success of iPartment is any indication. The Chinese-language […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Anti-social and mob violence in China rose sharply last year, according to official statistics released on Thursday by the Public Security Bureau, confirming anecdotal evidence of a growing willingness of citizens to take their grievances to the street. “Public order disturbances” increased by 6.6 per cent to 87,000 in 2005 as […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: IT IS surely telling that the characters that make up yinsi, the Chinese word for “privacy”, carry the connotations of illicit secrets and selfish, conspiratorial behaviour. The notion of privacy has not traditionally been valued in China, and proof of that is on display everywhere. The country’s public lavatories are often open-plan […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: …The Thai Education Ministry aims to promote the Chinese language alongside compulsory English and hopes that one third of high school students will be proficient in Chinese within five years. Lending impetus to this move are China’s other efforts to promote Chinese language education overseas. Beijing recently established the Confucius […]
Read MoreAmerican Public Media’s Marketplace is broadcasting a special report Live from China from January 9-20. Their website includes the the full-show audio as well as Latest Features, Photo Gallery, Music, Economic Timeline and Story Archives. It also includes a blog, in which correspondent Jocelyn Ford writes about covering the recent protests in Zhongshan: First thing […]
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