Chinese students who graduate always face challenges to find jobs due to the fast increasing number of graduates, majors, market changes and the gap between what is taught and the practical requirements of a career. Below are two related news by Shanghai Daily: More graduates are finding work: Shanghai Daily said that 138,000 local students […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: A Chinese executive who was due to appear on Thursday in a British court for possible extradition to the US is being hailed as a hero by Beijing’s state media and on the internet after he skipped bail and fled home to the southern province of Hunan . The City of […]
Read MoreSome young Chinese women are preparing to become Olympic hostesses who present the medals. These photos show how they are trained in an etiquette school: – Read also Lessons in How to Smile for China’s Olympic...
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Despite a series of product recalls that tarnished the “Made in China” label, China’s global trade surplus jumped 47% in 2007 from the previous year to a record $262 billion, the government reported today. But exports grew at a slower pace last month, an indication of weakening demand tied to […]
Read MoreI am in Taibei, part of a delegation sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to observe the Legislative Yuan elections that will take place tomorrow. We got out to two campaign rallies tonight, but before I post those let me provide a bit of background for those who have not been following the action […]
Read MoreMore on the increasingly heated debate over land use in China, from AP: China stressed Thursday that farmland should be used for cultivation, not gobbled up by construction as the country’s rapid development pushes further into the countryside. In a front-page article in the People’s Daily newspaper, the Communist Party mouthpiece, said the State Council […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from China Youth Daily: China’s environmental watchdog called the names of three multinationals for constantly failing to deliver on their environmental cleanup. The prominently criticized firms are a joint venture decoration materials outlet between Thailand’s CP Group and US’s Omnova Solutions, Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industrials Steel Structure and China’s food and beverage […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from the Beijing News: Hutouyan (虎头岩) is a tourist spot known for facing the Jialing River (嘉陵江). Surrounded by sky-piercing trees and natural vegetation, it not only boasts a hilltop view over the river and the city, but also has enormous commercial value. And a real estate developer has built out many […]
Read MoreFirst Shenzhen, now Beijing. The real estate bubble is deflating, if not bursting. Translated by CDT from CCTV’s “Economics Half Hour (经济半小时)” program: In China’s booming cities, real estate agents can consider themselves as white-collar workers, making tens of thousands of yuan a month. But that’s when the market is rosy. Now Beijing and its […]
Read MoreA Fengniao photographer took many pictures of migrant workers. He says that migrant workers’ lives are harsh as they work hard everyday, but never get rich. He wants to make more people pay attention to them by showing the...
Read MoreA blog “Love and the city” posted a collection of “Ten Possible Phrases We May Hear in Beijing Olympics, 2008.” [Full Text] 1. “本届奥运会是有史以来最好的一次“——-国际奥委会主席雅克·罗格 “The Beijing Olympics is the best one in our Olympics’ history.” Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee 2. “XXX，获得了此枚金牌后，此时此刻，你的心情是怎样的？” —–某体育记者 “xxx, What’s your mood after you won this […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Organisers lifted the curtain briefly yesterday on one aspect of the summer Games, many of which still remain shrouded in secrecy. They showed off one of the schools where young women were training to become one of only about 380 to carry the medals. A group of 32 girls, mostly in their […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Yun-han Chu and Andrew J. Nathan write about the potential outcomes of the upcoming legislative and presidential elections in Taiwan and what it means for cross-Straits ties: Yet the most important result of the elections is all but predetermined: Taiwan’s next president will be a relative moderate on cross-strait issues. […]
Read MoreIn the Atlantic Monthly, James Fallows writes about China’s controversial investment in Blackstone Group last year and China’s subsidizing of the American lifestyle: The Blackstone case is titillating in its personal detail, but it is also an unusually clear and personalized symptom of a deeper, less publicized, and potentially much more destructive tension in U.S.–China […]
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