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.
From the Guardian: Panic was today spreading in the Chinese city of Harbin as officials prepared to cut off water supplies as heavily polluted river water flowed towards them. Stockpiling began afresh at midnight when the local government switched taps on again for 12 hours after having cut off supplies to almost four million people […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: To the club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets”think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996″add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing’s State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may […]
Read MoreFrom a Business Week editorial: China last week mounted a surprisingly aggressive mobilization in hopes of averting an avian flu pandemic that has the potential to hobble Asia’s economy and slam global growth. This is a far cry from Beijing’s response to the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Then, China restricted press […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Parents of internet addicts are turning to the courts to make the industry pay for allegedly destroying — or even taking — the lives of their children. Zhang Chunliang, head of the China Economic Herald’s Centre for Prevention of Internet Addiction, said he had been instructed […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for the following: These are good articles on avian flu from Caijing magazine from mid October and early November issues (the original Chinese versions are available here and here). The...
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