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From Xinhua, via China Daily: Each year, more than six million farmers leave villages in the locality for cities for jobs in transportation, construction or cleaning, Chongqing itself absorbs 400,000 new migrant farmer workers annually. A sample survey by the Chongqing Municipal Agricultural Bureau shows that 92 percent of migrant farmer workers say they feel […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Under cover of darkness, hundreds of trucks brimming with coal crawl along the main street of this river town on the southeast corner of Borneo, a column of headlights burning through billowing dust. The nightly procession starts about two hours after sunset and presses on until dawn as the trucks ferry […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: Jack Ma, diminutive and wispy, a boyish former English teacher, does not fit the mold of a man who would attract groupies. Yet he’s constantly surrounded. Ma has attained cult status as the most famous of an elite group in China — the country’s Internet entrepreneurs. The half-dozen or so […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) has launched a program for environmental protection in Beijing in an effort to help build “Green Beijing, Green Olympics,” the organizer announced here Saturday. “Eco Action Beijing,” as the program called, will invite the primary school, middle school and university students in Beijing to participate in the campaign […]
Read MoreIn the Taipei Times, Arthur Waldron writes: When most people look at China’s course over the last decade or so, they are struck by four things. First is dramatic economic growth. Second is a huge increase in military power. Yet another is an ever more prominent role in diplomacy and international organizations. And fourth is […]
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