Three Fragile Gorges
“Cut off the clouds and rain of the Wu Mountain; build up high channel out of the flat lake (截断巫山云雨,高峡出平湖).” So wrote Mao Zedong when dreaming of a dam on the Yangtze River in 1956. Half a century later, the Three...
Read Moreby Wu Nan | Feb 3, 2008
“Cut off the clouds and rain of the Wu Mountain; build up high channel out of the flat lake (截断巫山云雨,高峡出平湖).” So wrote Mao Zedong when dreaming of a dam on the Yangtze River in 1956. Half a century later, the Three...
Read Moreby Wu Nan | Feb 3, 2008
Guangzhou has perhaps the largest migrant worker population (over ten million) of any city in China. When Chinese New Year arrives, the vast majority of these workers leave en mass to return home, making the Guangzhou train...
Read Moreby Xiao Qiang | Feb 3, 2008
From AFP: Millions of Chinese workers battled for a precious train ticket home Sunday as authorities struggled to keep order here following a stampede for seats that left a woman trampled to death. The savage winter snows and...
Read Moreby Xiao Qiang | Feb 2, 2008
A commentary on Pakistan’s Daily Times says: The regime’s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy: an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party. The Olympic Games are...
Read Moreby Xiao Qiang | Feb 2, 2008
From RFA Unplugged blog: Reporting by Qiao Long and Yan Xiu in Mandarin and by Lee Yong-tim for RFA’s Cantonese service in Guangzhou. The central Chinese province of Hunan has been pummeled by unrelenting snow and icy rains...
Read Moreby Sophie Beach | Feb 2, 2008
The New York Times follows up on their expose of tainted cancer drugs with an editorial calling for a stronger Federal Drug Administration in the U.S. to monitor imported pharmaceuticals: When Chinese regulators began to...
Read Moreby Kate Zhao | Feb 2, 2008
Moming Zhou from Marketwatch.com interviewed David Riedel from Riedel Research Group to talk about the Asian stock slump and the 2008 snowstorm’s influence on China’s economy. Here is the video:
Read Moreby Liu Yong | Feb 2, 2008
From AP: Their clocks are set on Beijing time, they use state-of-the-art equipment and — most of all — they are welcome by the Sudanese government. In just about everything, the Chinese peacekeeping contingent in Darfur is...
Read Moreby Liu Yong | Feb 2, 2008
From AFP: China warned Saturday that Taiwan’s decision to hold a referendum on trying to join the United Nations could threaten peace in the Asia Pacific region, state media said. Taiwan announced on Friday it would hold...
Read Moreby Sophie Beach | Feb 2, 2008
The Los Angeles Times has a profile of Kyle Rothstein, an American teenager who started studying Chinese in San Francisco at age 5 and is now starring in a movie about an American teenager living in China: By the time he was 12,...
Read Moreby Sophie Beach | Feb 2, 2008
From the Financial Times: When PetroChina listed its shares in Shanghai last November, the headline around the world was that PetroChina had a market capitalisation of more than $1,000bn – making it the planet’s most valuable...
Read Moreby Sophia Cao | Feb 2, 2008
From BBC News: China’s government has warned people to brace for more bad weather as the country struggles to cope with the worst snow storms in over 50 years. State weather services said the worst-hit provinces faced...
Read Moreby Sophia Cao | Feb 2, 2008
After Hu Jia used the internet to expose human rights abuses in China, he was arrested by the authorities on December 27. His wife, Zeng Jinyan, and their two-month-old daughter are under house arrest. Hu’s lawyer, Li...
Read Moreby Kate Zhao | Feb 2, 2008
MarketWatch ’s Moming Zhou reported that China has to suspend its credit tightening campaigns to alleviate the economic pain brought by the deadly snowstorms. The effort could push China’s inflation, already an 11-year high,...
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