An editorial from the Delaware Online: It seems that hosting the Olympics next year means more to China than its often-stated stance of noninvolvement in the internal affairs of foreign governments. Within the last week, a senior Chinese official traveled to Sudan to push the government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force, according to […]
Read MoreFrom PanAsianBiz blog: Presently there are just 63 franchise retailers in China for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Franchise Stores, mostly in Beijing. At the end of the year, that will change. “Organizers of the Beijing Olympics Games said they would allow individuals to open Olympic franchise stores by the first quarter of 2008.” Come […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Advertisers are going into overdrive to reach their targets, and their overwhelming efforts paid off as it becomes almost impossible for anyone to escape from ads, but besides big companies, young kids are paying the price, too. “Liang Liang, come here to use the washroom,” asked the teacher, but the five-year-old boy […]
Read MoreFrom China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom: No two ways about it. The new headquarters for the Chinese state TV channel going up near our apartment looks dangerous. It’s been called a “twisted doughnut.” It’s a startling sight. Two angular upward towers with a gravity-defying cantilevered cross section. Imagine working in that mid-section 40 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: For singer and bar-owner, Qiao Qiao, talking about her sexuality live on an Internet broadcast accessible to millions of people was easier than telling her parents that she was a lesbian. “My mother was very supportive,” she said on Thursday, as cameras rolled in a small studio in northwest Beijing. “But my father […]
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