N.Y., China Investigating Black Market in Bodies
From ABC News: Authorities in China and New York have opened investigations into allegations that a black market in Chinese bodies, which may include executed prisoners, is sending corpses to the United States for public...
Read MoreVideo News: China Gold Demand Pushes Output to Record Levels
Last month, MarketWatch reported that China has produced 276 metric tons of gold in 2007. That represented just over one-tenth of the world’s supply. And China is now considered the world’s largest producer of gold....
Read MoreWinners and Losers From the Rise (or Recovery) of China
From The World Press: China is believed to be the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Unlike Egypt, its rival claimant to that “honor, it has remained an empire” (Kitissou 2007). In this sense, it could be...
Read MoreNearly 30 High-ranking Chinese Officials Dismissed for Corruption in Past 5 Years
Nearly 30 high-ranking Chinese officials were dismissed or prosecuted in the past five years, including the former Minister of Public Health Department Zheng Xiaoyu, who was executed in July, 2007. From Xinhua News Agency: China...
Read MoreSinging Broadway in Mandarin
SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical hits China’s stage in Mandarin later this year, according to Newsweek. The high demand for musicals in China is setting a trend in Broadway shows translated into Chinese. “Les...
Read MoreBeijing Closes Down Gas Stations
About 10 percent of Beijing’s gas stations will have to close in May because they cannot meet new, higher environmental standards, BBC reported. More than 1,000 other stations will each have to buy $70,000 worth of equipment to...
Read MoreVideo: Abandoned Poison
The following video from Sina won the 2006 Chinese DV Contest for environment protection. It tells us: “Two-thirds of the cities in China are filled with trash. According to reliable sources, there are about 150,000,000...
Read MoreDoomed to Repeat It
Austin Ramzy wrote on Time China blog about a transcript of a February 1973 conversation between Chairman Mao and Henry Kissinger. Earlier this week the U.S. State Department released a new volume about U.S. foreign relations...
Read MoreEx-China Basketball Star Says Olympics Are Platform for Change
Chen Kai, a former China national basketball team member, predicts that “There will be huge political and financial earthquakes during the Olympics,” via AFP: Olympians who speak freely about politics and human...
Read MorePop Goes The Easel
Newsweek profiles Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang in its February 28 issue of Newsweek. Cai is known for his “explosive” art work and has won several prizes and awards for his work. He is also noted for his current art...
Read MoreChina Repents and Seeks to Woo Pope
After years of tensions between Beijing and the Vatican, confidential discussions are currently underway to restore diplomatic relations between the two, according to this story from The Times: Liu Bainian, the de facto head of...
Read MoreChina Makes ‘Unremitting Efforts’ to Resolve Crisis in Darfur
Three days after the Spielberg incident, and two days after President Bush defended his inaction on Darfur to the BBC, China Daily has released an article detailing a conversation with China’s Ambassador to Sudan, Li...
Read MoreVideo: ‘Hip-Hop Grannies’ Take the Stage
Grandmothers are joining cheerleaders on the stage and on the airwaves, reports Voice of America, and they call themselves “The Hip-Hop Grannies.” Wu Yi retired at the mandatory age of 55. Bored at home, she saw...
Read MoreBeijing Athletes Allowed to Blog
From BBC News: The International Olympic Committee is for the first time permitting athletes to write blogs. The IOC has set out guidelines for blogging at the Beijing Games to ensure copyright agreements are not infringed. They...
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