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From the New Yorker Magazine: Modern Shanghai combines the soul of Houston with the body of Las Vegas. In Pudong, the city’s booming financial district, flashing trails of colored lights race up and down the shafts of office towers, as if they were casinos. One freshly minted skyscraper, Aurora Plaza, has a fa√ßade of gold […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government provided details Friday of its efforts to contain the second major environmental disaster to hit the country’s waterways in little more than a month. State media reported that authorities had sealed dams and pumped neutralizing chemicals into the Bei River in the wake of a toxic spill […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China has dismissed two provincial deputy governors and prosecuted 96 officials blamed for six high-profile coal mine accidents that killed a total of 528 people over the past 13 months, the government announced Friday. All six disasters were blamed on managers who failed to follow safety rules, sometimes […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: WHEN a dozen Chinese newspapers recently ran stories about a rash of sadistic cat killings in Shanghai by a perverse postgraduate student, it was another quiet triumph for a young man in Beijing called Zhao Jing. To a widening blog readership in China and abroad, Zhao is better known by […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The People’s Daily held an interview with Li Deshui, head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on China’s revised GDP (gross domestic product) of the year 2004 after the country’s first nationwide economic survey. Technorati Tags: China
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