A new law is in the works to fight drug-related crimes and addiction, according to Reuters: Lawmakers will review from Sunday a final draft of the bill with revisions that included raising the age limit for compulsory rehabilitation to 16 from 14. Opium, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine hydrochloride — commonly known as “ice” — as well […]
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Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Southern Breeze magazine: To Chinese environmental officials, scientists and NGOs, 2007 has been the worst year, and the best year. It’s the worst year because of a spate of major environmental cases across the country: the blue algae bloom in Lake Tai, the rat disaster around Lake Dongting, the near-failure of […]
Read MoreFrom angrychineseblogger blog: Whichever way you look at it, China looks set to become an increasingly significant nation in the world of tomorrow. If things keep going on the way that they are it booming economy and industrial output will make it a financial power. Its policy of trade-and-aid without social or economic strings will […]
Read MoreFrom Surprise of 2000 Days – A Book Written With vigorous life, Chengdu, China. From 1987 to 1993,Hou Yimin who is a permanent photographer of World Wild Fund for Nature spent six years living in the Nature Pander Reserve of West China,and devoted himself to take the pictures of wild panda.His autobiographic book,2000 Days in […]
Read MoreAn op-ed in the International Herald Tribune a couple of days ago argues that China is “overhauling” its attitudes toward the world’s despots, from North Korea to Burma to Sudan: The shift has been driven in part by China’s changing calculation of its economic and political interests. With its increased investments in pariah countries over […]
Read MoreBusiness professor Prakash Sethi has spent the last several years monitoring the working conditions in Mattel’s Chinese toy factories. Jonathan Dee writes in the New York Times Magazine: If Mattel were simply a greedy or sloppy company that got caught doing something it shouldn’t and paid the price, its story, and Sethi’s, would be a […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Great Wall Online: Li Yizhong (李毅中), the high profile coal mine safety chief of China, is known in the media as “China’s most exhausted senior official” and “the official who has erupted the most in anger,” mostly for trailing accidents across the country “putting out the fire.” Recently Li’s fellow comrade […]
Read MoreChina’s first high-speed bullet train will start running between Beijing – Tianjin soon, according to AFP: The streamlined train body, made of aluminium alloy, is the lightest of its kind in the world, Wang said. The eight-carriage train can seat about 600 passengers and will start running the 115-kilometre-long Beijing-Tianjin route before the Beijing Olympics […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Around 20 people who planned to attend the year-end dinner of the Independent Chinese PEN society, a local branch of an international association of writers, have been barred from attending, its chairman Liu Xiaobo told AFP. Some have been put under house arrest while others were warned by police to stay at home, […]
Read MoreWhile many media and individual observers of China are compiling their lists of “top events” of 2007, the biggest story of this year seems to be just emerging. Following is news about four collective actions initiated by Chinese farmers across the country demanding their land rights, all this month. Mentioned in this article, by Beijing-based […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from People Online: China’s glaciers have retreated 7.4% on average compared with the period between 1950s-1980s, according to a recent glacier resources survey led by former meteorological chief Qin Dahe, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The survey covered nearly 20,000 square kilometers of clean-cap glaciers in China. Glaciers that […]
Read MoreAn interesting point on a personal level in helping fight global warming. Translated by CDT from China Youth Daily: With the rising divorce rate, China may soon become another target of finger pointing from the developed world when it comes to the global warming talks, and this one may seem light years away from any […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The head of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday said he wanted more details about China’s plan to buy a stake in investment bank Morgan Stanley. China agreed to pay $5 billion for a 9.9 percent stake in Morgan Stanley, the latest position taken by a government-run fund in a major U.S. […]
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