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From the New York Times: There is a placard beside Tiananmen Square that counts the days until the 2008 Summer Olympics, and every one of them would seem precious: Beijing must build or renovate 72 sports stadiums and training facilities, lay asphalt for 59 new roads and complete three new bridges by the opening ceremony. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A crowd of disheveled villagers was waiting when Chen Guangcheng stepped out of the car. More women than men among them, a mix of desperation and hope on their faces, they ushered him along a dirt path and into a nearby house. Then, one after another, they told him about the […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: It is difficult to convey to those who haven’t seen it just how vast and poor is China’s agricultural hinterland. Westerners see the 21st-century skyscraper skylines of Shanghai, Beijing or Guangzhou, the exploding city 100 miles from Hong Kong, and think they are astonishing. Which they are; the spectacle never fails to […]
Read MoreFrom CRI English: Beijing is attempting to calculate the city’s “green” gross domestic product (GDP), the Beijing News reported Friday. The experiment is scheduled to figure out the “green” GDP of 2004 by the end of next year based on the formula of “conventional GDP minus environmental losses”… The report lists the ten fields that […]
Read MoreFrom the New Zealand Herald: National pride apart, it’s difficult to see how residents in the hutongs will gain from China’s hosting of the the multi-billion-dollar 29th Olympic Games. Shao Liu’s home is one of 11 clustered around a courtyard, extended families sharing a single toilet. Although vast swathes of hutong and siheyan (courtyard-style housing […]
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