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All 20 of the South African, British, and Indian tourists who were detained in Ordos, Inner...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 19, 2015
All 20 of the South African, British, and Indian tourists who were detained in Ordos, Inner...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 15, 2015
Twenty foreign tourists were detained in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, after police suspected they were...
by radish | Nov 10, 2014
The ongoing APEC summit is the biggest showcase for the city of Beijing, even the whole of China,...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 26, 2013
Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report covers a recently released report from a CLSA...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 26, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 9, 2013
Ordos city, a development project in Inner Mongolia that was designed to attract one million residents, has frequently been derided as a failure and a “ghost town,” with up to 90% of its construction projects empty....
by Sophie Beach | Mar 4, 2013
For CBS’ 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl visits China to investigate the “largest housing bubble in human history” and explore ghost cities, such as Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and housing and shopping developments that...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 21, 2012
Three China-based Foreign Correspondents’ Clubs have issued a joint statement condemning “alarming” recent episodes of harassment against foreign reporters. From the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong...
by Melissa M. Chan | Aug 19, 2012
As China embraces beauty pageants, Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned Miss World on Saturday. She is the second contestant to win from China: 2007’s Zhang Zilin was the first Chinese contestant to win an international beauty...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 29, 2011
Ai Weiwei’s wife, Lu Qing, was questioned at a Beijing police station on Tuesday afternoon, and later released [zh]. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan spoke to Ai, who said that he did not know why she had been summoned:...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 10, 2011
Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera revisits the town of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, which, as she reported two years ago, was a ghost city being built out of nothing in the desert with government funds: Read more about Ordos via...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 13, 2010
The city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia helped China set another world record by assembling the largest number of people to create a chain of human dominoes. From the Christian Science Monitor: It is clearly not enough for the...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 18, 2009
Ordos, Inner Mongolia, has been getting its share of attention in recent weeks with several articles mentioning it in the international media. The New York Times reports from the city on local initiatives to implement green...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 10, 2009
Al Jazeera looks at the impact of China’s economic stimulus spending: China’s economy is continuing to grow despite the global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package of $585bn. But doubts remain...
by Paulina Hartono | Apr 21, 2009
Wu Baoquan’s comments towards the government landed him in prison. Roland Soong of ESWN translates a Southern Metropolis Daily article that talks about Wu’s situation, as well as the quieting of his case online:...
by Japhet Weeks | May 2, 2008
Fred Bernstein writes in the New York Times about a grand experiment in architecture that is taking place in an unlikely spot — a patch of steppe in Inner Mongolia: “Basically, Ordos is Texas,” explained Michael S. Tunkey,...