Wu Nan is a student of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. Wu Nan worked for the Boston Globe Beijing Bureau as a news assistant for three years. She also worked as a reporter for one and a half years at the Economic Observer, a Chinese national financial weekly based in Beijing. Her reports focused on the changes in modern China society and the world.
From Xinhua: China’s migrant workers born in the late 1970s and 1980s are refusing to follow in their parents’ footsteps and do tough and dirty work in China’s booming cities, according to a report about migrant workers. Their choices have led to a lack of in three of China’s major manufacturing bases: the Pearl River […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese authorities have made their first known arrest in a corruption scandal involving Shanghai’s social security funds, detaining one of the country’s richest men. Zhang Rongkun(º†Ëç£Âù§), chairman of Fuxi Investment Holding Co., has been arrested, the private investment firm said in a one-sentence statement obtained on Saturday. Company spokesmen could not be reached […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Nine people convicted of selling illegally copied DVDs and other goods have been jailed for up to 13 years in China’s biggest anti-piracy crackdown to date, a news report said Friday. The sentences were the longest reported since China stepped up penalties for product piracy in mid-2005, imposing jail time in addition to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s top statistician was sacked after anti-corruption investigations implicated him in the Shanghai pension fund scandal, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics (ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÁªüËư±ÄÔºâsaid on Thursday. Qiu Xiaohua ÔºàÈDZÊôìÂçéԺ■who announced a new “Happiness Index” this year to include living conditions, the environment and salary — was dismissed as chief of the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Shanghai — Rumors that Shanghai is planning to build a 700-meter-high skyscraper were refuted Wednesday by Lujiazui GroupÔºàÈôÜÂÆ∂Âò¥ÈõÜÂõ¢Ôºâ, a leading real estate development company in the economic hub. The height of the skyscraper – which will be the third landmark tower in the Lujiazui financial zone – and its architect, are yet to […]
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