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From Inhabitat.com: British engineering and design consultancy Arup has signed a contract with Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC) to plan the world’s first sustainable “eco-city” – at Dongtan, outside of Shanghai. The new city, which will be three-quarters the size of Manhattan, will be built on the eastern end of Chongming, a large island that […]
Read MoreFrom the Seattle Times: Last week, Microsoft lost an opportunity to improve its relations with the Chinese government after Chinese President Hu Jintao’s trip to the U.S. was postponed. Instead, the company found itself in court, hearing an executive who defected to its biggest rival disparage Microsoft’s record in China. Not an ideal outcome for […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The two eruptions of peasant violence in the hills near here offer a glimpse of a much larger wave of popular unrest. Thousands of protests break out every year in China’s cities and villages, even though such demonstrations are prohibited. The protests have become a major concern for President Hu Jintao’s […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Ang Lee‘s gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain has won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film is adapted from a story by E Annie Proulx and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as cowboys whose secret love affair spans 20 years.
Read MoreUPDATED 9.12.05 Following is a one sentence news report that ran on Xinhua today: The death toll in natural disasters was no longer regarded as state secret starting from August this year, a government spokesman said here...
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