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Read MoreCorrespondent Ye Pengfei of Singaporean United Morning News (Zao Bao) wrote a commentary on the extensive blackouts and railroad paralysis in China caused by a recent snowstorm: The snowstorm came just about a week before the...
Read MoreIn The Telegraph, Philip Ehrmann, Manager of the Jupiter China Fund gives his opinion on the future of the Chinese economy: The country, home to 1.3 billion people, is on a rapid growth path, with GDP having grown by 11.4 per...
Read MoreCNN has amazing footage of Wen Jiabao’s apology for the snow chaos, please click here to watch: In a rare move for a Chinese politician, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of thousands of people...
Read MoreChina’s Stolen Children is a documentary showing how the one-child policy has created a booming trade in stolen children, via Youtube: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Part...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Chinese authorities were on Tuesday scrambling to resolve a crisis in transport and power systems that has left millions of travellers stranded, closed scores of factories and is threatening to inflict...
Read MoreAmong hundreds of TV dramas aired across China in 2007, ten received the most reviews from blogs on Sina.com, one of China’s largest blog sites, according to a ranking released by Sina blog this month. It is interesting to see...
Read MoreThis week CDT ChinaCast focuses on China’s role in Africa by talking with Peter Bosshard, the policy director of International Rivers Network(IRN), a California-based environmental NGO. Bosshard and IRN have worked with...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China will never submit to taunting or political pressure from groups or governments wishing to use the Beijing Olympics to change Chinese policy, a leading state-run newspaper said on Tuesday. Activists around the...
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph blog: One train from Beijing managed to arrive in Hong Kong exactly 24 hours late, which puts being stuck at Clapham Junction for 30 minutes in rush-hour in its proper perspective. Since those millions are all...
Read MoreThis commentary was published on many bulletin boards inside the Great Firewall, such as Cat898.com, one of the most popular online forums in China. The post stayed for several hours before being deleted by censors. It is now on...
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China has admitted that six workers have been killed on Olympic Games construction projects since 2003. Until now, Beijing had denied there had been any fatalities on the building sites being readied for this...
Read MoreOn the Guardian website, Joe Amon takes a critical look at the Chinese government’s AIDS prevention efforts: More than 25 years into the global Aids epidemic, one thing we’ve learned is that you can’t fight HIV...
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