From The Guardian, via Buzzle.com: Carcasses kept in storage as Beijing looks to lift ban on sale of exotic animal parts. The padlocked freezer at Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain Village attracts little attention from the tourists who throng to the park each day. Most are more interested in the bloody spectacle of tigers savaging […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The naked Chinese migrant workers were dangling on hooks and ropes from a ceiling in north-east Beijing until a few months ago, when they were bundled up in bubble wrap, crammed into a container and shipped off to London. They are not desperate Chinese peasants seeking illegal entry into the UK. Far […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on a new highway network that will reconnect countries along the old Silk Road: China is at the heart of the network. In addition to existing roads, it is building more than 10,000 miles of new highways. The push into central Asia is making some of the world’s most remote regions more […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Asia’s richest woman has died in Hong Kong little more than a year after winning a six-year battle to keep her missing husband’s estate. Nina Wang Èæö¶ÇÂøÉ, estimated to be worth ¬£2.1bn, succumbed to illness aged 69, her personal assistant said yesterday. Nicknamed “Little Sweetie”, Ms Wang rose to prominence after the […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: …Here in Mai, a village in Guangdong Province, southern China, a community of recyclers ekes out a living from items considered so worthless in the west that they are given away free and quickly discarded. Carrier bags and bottles are shipped here from London, Rotterdam, Hong Kong and cities within China for […]
Read MoreMore English media weigh in on the “nail house” situation: From The Guardian: Hold-outs, known as “nails” in China because they stick up despite attempts to beat them down, are becoming increasingly common in China. Mr Yang’s protest has been strengthened by its timing. Earlier this month, the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, passed the […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on how China and India are both tackling environmental degradation in the face of rapid economic growth: Linfen is the frontline of the battle against global warming. For the past five years, the city of 3.5 million people has been the most polluted place on the planet, bottom of the World Bank’s […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on an exhibit in Beijing of contemporary British artists, which coincides with an exhibit in the U.K. of contemporary Chinese artists: Starting today, the newly constructed Capital Museum will host the city’s biggest exhibition of contemporary British art, featuring a well-made bed, a dripping severed head, fidgeting bobbies, Royal Ascot hats and […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A senior official in Japan’s ruling party has warned that his country could become “just another Chinese province” within the next 20 years if Beijing’s military development continues at its current rapid rate. In a speech in Nagoya, Shoichi Nakagawa, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic party‘s policy research council, claimed Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: China has three times as many religious believers as previously thought, according to a new survey that suggests this nominally atheist nation has never been more open to the “opium of the masses”. Professors at East China Normal University estimated that about 300 million people – equivalent to more than 30% of […]
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