From China News: Henan Province‘s Zhengzhou City has a “Red” elementary school, which requires the student to recite “Chairman Mao’s Quotations“, to stand guard with the red tassel gun, and to plant farm crops like sunflowers and corns within the school. However, this proud Headmaster met with intense opposition from the outside world. Protestors said […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: A mainland internet domain-name registration company has purged several influential homosexual websites under pressure from police in a crackdown on “illegal content”. At least three gay forums have been closed down in the ongoing “clean-up” process. The forums, all second-level domain names under the Ful.cn address, include tzgay.ful.cn […]
Read MoreFrom China Net: The number of foreigners studying in China hit 141,000 in 2005, up 27.28 percent from the figure a year earlier, with 86,679 of them coming to China to study Mandarin (putonghuaÊôÆÈÄöËØù), the Ministry of Education said on Monday. The Ministry’s spokesman Wang Xuming told a press conference that China witnessed the record […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Hung Huang‘s (Ê¥™ÊôÉ) mother was Mao Zedong‘s English teacher. She was sent to the U.S. for education as a teenager, and has returned to become one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Chinese print media. Now she has discovered the power of the blog. This show is the first half of a two […]
Read MoreFrom China Watch (link): Few fledgling nongovernmental organizations can claim the kind of success that Beijing-based Global Environmental Institute (GEI) has enjoyed: an operating budget of half a million dollars, a board comprised of internationally prominent environmental professionals, an impressive portfolio of projects, and even a spin-off organization. Given all this, it’s hard to believe […]
Read MoreFrom China Aid Association (link): On May 11, 2006 for the first time, a sitting US President met a group of Chinese House Church intellectuals in the White House. Mr. Bush, along with Vice-President Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush’s National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Mr. Josh Bolton, the White House Chief of Staff and the President’s […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: Since the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more than 100 minister- and provincial-level officials were sentenced for corruption, an unprecedented number, according to statistics released by the Supreme Procuratorate. In 2005, 47,306 officials were discipline-punished by Chinese supervision agencies. Another authoritative source last year registered 703 […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist (link): OK now, if you are over 18 years old, you have high school education, you have used internet for more than three years, you know internet pretty well — sounds like us … we’re getting excited! — you think you can accurately express your opinions, and most importantly, you care about establishing […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): China’s Ministry of Education warned Monday that there are now less than one percent of the five million professional Chinese-as-a-second-language teachers that are expected to be needed over the next five years. The number of foreigners learning Chinese around the world is expected to hit 100 million in 2010, according […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (link): THE most frequently used word on the Internet in China is “È°∂,” pronounced “Ding,” which means to support other people’s Website posts, Beijing Morning Post reported today. The Ministry of Education and the National Linguistics Work Committee published 20 words that netizens use the most on the Internet. The appearance rate […]
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