From AFP: The former number two of the Communist Party in one of China’s most populous provinces has been sentenced to life in jail for massive graft, state media reported Wednesday. Du Shicheng, previously the party...
Read MoreA photo slideshow of the major cities in China with Spring Festival decorations may add some colors to the chaotic and freezing winter in China. Happy Rat Year! Photos from Xinhua via Sina and China Daily: Listen here a once-hit...
Read MoreGoogle Vs Baidu — new race on music downloading, from the Wall Street Journal: Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country’s Internet search market, thanks...
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at how Chinese who have been living abroad face the changes at home when they visit for Spring Festival: Huang, 36, is a “sea turtle,” one of the thousands of students who return to China...
Read MoreForeign Affairs has a special issue dedicated to China. The articles, which are available here, include: * Long Time Coming by John L. Thornton * The Rise of China and the Future of the West by G. John Ikenberry * China’s...
Read MoreFrom Al Jazeera: China is slowly emerging from one of its worst winters in a century but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water and farmers are counting the cost of destroyed crops....
Read MoreFrom BBC: Chinese dumplings which were laced with pesticide and made at least 10 Japanese people ill were probably poisoned on purpose, Japan’s health minister says. The frozen dumplings were contaminated with a highly...
Read MoreFrom BBC News : The World Bank has appointed its first chief economist from a developing country to work at the institution. Justin Yifu Lin , a leading academic from Beijing University who is originally from Taiwan, is the...
Read MoreFrom ABC News : China’s increasing wealth and love affair with Western products has spilled over into the realm of fashion and beauty, and many Chinese women are paying a very high price for it: Ah Jiao and Xiao Xue are...
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times : It isn’t easy being a kosher food inspector in the land of moo shu pork. No matter how hard you try. “Once, they got me into a restaurant and they ordered a whole plate of food and put it in...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Millions of Chinese are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water after more than a week of wild winter weather that shut down transport links across large parts of the country. The...
Read MoreWilly Wo-Lap Lam, a senior fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, published the following analysis on China Brief: Since dumping former Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu in late 2006, President Hu Jintao has tightened his...
Read MoreThe Guardian tells the stories of some of the migrant workers stranded in the snow: The passengers look like refugees; laden with cheap cases, sagging boxes and anxiety. In each surge forward, they jostle and shove. Even the...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Guardian: Emboldened by recent success and backed by Beijing’s deep pockets, an increasingly sophisticated China Inc is poised to make bigger overseas acquisitions in its quest to secure natural...
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