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From the Economist (subscription only; free day pass available): Mao Zedong told China’s women that they “hold up half the sky”, but they have had little to show for their feat. Women today make up more than 60% of China’s vast agricultural workforce, yet occupy barely 20% of the seats in the national parliament. Nor […]
Read MoreFrom Physorg.com: Researchers at the University of Bremen, the Max-Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg and France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have been studying the retrieval of nitrogen dioxide variability from space and modelling its global behaviour. The team have published an article in the 1 September 2005 edition of the science […]
Read MoreFrom Sinopolis.com, here is a translated summary of a Xinhua article: Zhang Songdan, an official of the investigative group of the State Forestry Bureau, says in an interview Jan. 19 that the problem of APP’s forest destruction in Yunnan really exists. He says they found local governments, such as the Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Villagers in southern China have vowed to continue their protest against alleged local corruption following their arrest for a hunger strike. More than 80 people in Taishi village, Guangdong province, refused food on Wednesday because they said the local authorities had ignored their concerns. Seventeen of them were arrested on Thursday morning […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Leader, translated via Pacific News Service by Jun Wang: According to the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, families who can have two children are “at the two ends of the social scale.” They are either so poor that the government never expects them to repay the fine, or […]
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