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 AP: The total number of people who will be displaced by China’s massive Three Gorges Dam has been raised by 270,000, to 1.4 million people, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday quoted Pu HaiqingÔºàËí≤ʵ∑Ê∏ÖÔºâ, head of the Cabinet-level Three Gorges Project Construction CommitteeÔºà‰∏âÂ≥°Â∑•Á®ãª∫ËÆæÂßîÂëò‰ºöÂäûÂÖ¨ÂƧ‰∏ª‰ªªÔºâ, as saying that total would be reached […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu killed 985 chickens in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia(ÂÜÖËíôÂè§Ôºâ, a state news agency reported Saturday. The discovery in a village near the city of Baotou(ÂåÖ§¥Ôºâprompted authorities to destroy 8,990 other chickens to prevent the virus from spreading, the Xinhua News Agency […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China has established a new system to keep track of land use in a bid to curb runaway investment and protect the interests of farmers. The State Council, China’s cabinet, has authorized the Ministry of Land and Resources /ÂõΩÂúü˵ÑÊ∫êÈÉ®(MLR) to supervise and overhaul land use and management by local governments, Vice-Premier Zeng […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: A new breed of churches in this region of China has demonstrated a boldness and independence unmatched elsewhere in the country, despite strict government guidelines for places of worship. Here in Wenzhou and the surrounding province of Zhejiang, just south of Shanghai, a growing number of congregations that began life as house […]
Read MoreAfter 1949, there was always just Mao’s portrait hanging in Tiananmen Square. But now there is something new: According to China Daily, People walked around and even used their mobile phones to take photos of a huge portrait of Sun Yat-sen, who now is widely recognized as the nation’s modern founder. The portrait is part […]
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