From the Guardian: China’s breakneck growth took its worst ever toll on the environment last year, the state media said today quoting a report that revealed serious pollution spills are occurring almost every other day. Although the government has made cleaner economic development a priority, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said the country had […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China will waive tuition fees for 150 million rural children next year in an attempt to close the education gulf that has opened up between rich and poor students since the start of the country’s market reforms. The 15bn yuan (¬£1bn) scheme was hailed by the state media as a major element […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: No one will ever know how many Chinese men – and women – were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: A leading Aids campaigner in China has vanished, feared detained by police, after the authorities ordered him to cancel a conference that was to have looked at the state’s responsibility for infections and blood safety. Wan Yanhai, head of the Aizhi advocacy group, appears to be the third prominent activist to have […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The Beijing metro could overtake the London underground as the world’s longest subway network by 2020, under a proposal submitted by urban planners. In an attempt to ease the dire traffic congestion and pollution that plague the Chinese capital, the planners want the subway network to be expanded almost fivefold from its […]
Read MoreCDT ChinaCast is a podcast series of short and informal conversations with journalists, business people, artists and others doing interesting work in China. For the initial series, China Digital Times bloggers will interview...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Rifles slung over their olive green uniforms, the North Korean border guards watch warily as the Chinese speedboat surges towards them across the Yalu river(È∏≠ÁªøʱüÔºâ. The boatman ignores them, drawing his craft within half a dozen metres of the bank and then, turning parallel, reduces speed so his passengers can photograph the […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Yahoo! goes further than any of its rivals in blocking information on Tibet, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Ma says it is as much of a philosophical choice as a...
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Millions of pints of blood are pumped through underground pipelines from a big developing country to wealthy consumers in the United States and elsewhere. The blood trade has produced the most spectacular boom in human history. In just five years, the formerly dirt-poor state at the heart of the haemo-business has become […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Some economic booms grind to a halt, others run out of steam, but in China the biggest risk is that growth will dry up. Water, the country’s scarcest resource, is running out. Pollution, waste and over-exploitation have combined with the expansion of mega-cities to foul up wells and suck rivers dry. Signs […]
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