Shops Ordered to Sell Alcohol in Xinjiang Village
Amid China’s ongoing crackdown on terrorism in Xinjiang, launched last May in effort to...
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China is Brewing Wine From Tiger Bones
After a Chinese delegate admitted that Beijing allows a trade in skins from captive tigers at a...
Luxury Loses As China Slowdown Reinforces Regime Change
China has a unique relationship between its politics and certain high-end industries. Bloomberg reporters Vinicy Chan and Crystal Chui suggest that anti-graft measures have dampened the luxury market to some extent: [Mainland...
Beer Company Threatens Tibetan Antelope
A Chinese brewery’s plans for promotional trips to a Tibetan nature reserve threaten to undermine past successes in protecting the plateau’s wildlife. From The Guardian: Kekexili – also known as Hoh Xil –...
The Rise of Binge Drinking in China
At The Guardian, Tania Branigan examines China’s soaring alcohol consumption, and the social and professional pressures that help drive it. “If I drink, it doesn’t necessarily help me get promoted. But if I...
In China, a Patriotic Death Reeks of Alcohol
Apparently an official who died of a brain hemmorhage after excessive drinking in Xinyang, Henan, the city which has banned officials from imbibing during official lunch banquets, has had his “outstanding communist”...
Award For Chinese Official After Tragedy
From the Financial Times: A Chinese official who drank himself to death has been named an “outstanding communist”, even though the city where he worked is the focus of a campaign against government employee alcohol abuse, state...
China’s Latest Crackdown: The Liquid Lunch
As Xinhua reported (and CDT translated) last August, officials in Xinyang, Henan Province have been touting the economic and social benefits the city has accrued after banning the consumption of alcohol at official banquets. The...
Days of Liquid Lunch Are Numbered
In China, lunch meetings are often a time to conduct business over food and drinks. A year after Henan officials were banned from lunchtime libations, the province’s alcohol industry is fighting back, claiming that as a...
Alcohol Ban Illegal? And Corruption a Productivity? – Great Wall Online
A new commentary from Great Wall Online provides an update on CDT’s earlier post about a new ban on alcohol at lunch for officials in the Henan Province city of Xinyang. Translated by CDT: The benefits of the ban on...
Alcohol Ban At Lunch Saves Millions, Contributes to Social Harmony – Xinhua Henan
Xinyang City Secretary reports on a rare experiment and its achievements: banning alcohol at cadres’ lunches. Benefits are multiple, and enormous. Translated from Xinhua Henan channel: An alcohol ban at lunches for all...
China gets high on Scotch with a touch of green tea – Times of India
From The Times of India: A bizarre but fashionable concoction of Scotch and green tea in an economically resurgent China has driven the sale of the finest whiskies of Scotland to an all-time high. Traditional Scotch dealers didn’t ever imagine their drink would be put to such use, but they are not complaining, not after […]
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