Officials at Beijing’s International Airport say they are increasing security for the 2008 Olympics by installing high-tech portable bomb detectors. The AP reports that airport police have already been equipped with X-ray...
Read MoreWhile a senior health official from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province stated last week that health care in China is more cheap and accessible than in any other country, Shanghai Daily columnist Wu Jiayin writes why the...
Read MoreA cheery report on the transfer of the coastal boom to the interior provinces. But the China Daily story is missing at least one important factor: the potential environmental consequences. The past 30 years of China’s...
Read MoreBeijing expatriates started cashing in on the upcoming Olympics, by renting out their homes, according to China Daily: While Beijing tourism authorities last month stepped up a campaign to recruit some 1,000 Chinese households...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that rights defense lawyer Zheng Enchong has been repeatedly beaten outside his Shanghai home in recent days: The lawyer, Zheng Enchong, who has lived under house arrest for several months, has...
Read MoreAccording to The Times, Lei Feng and his fellow national heroes are set to officially become less revolutionary “martyrs”: About 340,000 families across the country currently take pride in a relative who has been...
Read MoreFrom Caijing Magazine : Led by the state council, China is initiating a large-scale research plan for a 4G standard, successful development of which could shape the 4G landscape of China and beyond, as reported in Caijing...
Read MoreThe San Francisco Chronicle is launching, “a series of stories over the next several months that will explore the changes China’s first Olympic Games are bringing to Beijing and the rest of the nation.” From...
Read MoreBeijing-based poet and folk singer Zhou Funpeng, 周云蓬, 38, has penned the following song, The Unemployed (失业者), a mournful ballad representing the people left behind in urban China’s sprint towards prosperity. Listen here...
Read MorePhotographer Li Xueren (李学仁) has posted a vivid series of photos depicting female members of the Qiang Minority doing business in Tibet. According to some accounts, the Qiang rank among the “oldest” minority groups...
Read MoreA new case of human death of bird flu rings a bell in China. From Reuters: A woman in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the government said on Monday, the fourth human death from...
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune looks at the rise of the Shanghai style in fashion design: Shanghai is far enough from Beijing for designers to feel free to experiment and far enough from Hong Kong to keep its influences at...
Read MoreIn Kenya’s Daily Nation, writer Ken Kamoche writes about China’s responsibilities in Africa: If China could stop hiding behind the so-called non-interference principle, and exercise a little more of its clout with...
Read MoreSports columnist Sally Jenkins writes on laughs at arguments that the Olympics are apolitical inthe Washington Post: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge spoke yesterday, and, as usual, he didn’t say...
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