The Washington Post reports on the five-year environmental protection plan just released in Beijing: The plan includes previously announced targets that officials have failed to meet, including reducing pollutants such as sulfur dioxide by 10 percent. It warns that China’s emphasis on rapid economic growth is severely affecting public health. “The system does not work […]
Read MoreThe Dui Hua Foundation has posted a translation of an article from the Beijing News. From Dui Hua’s introduction: The following opinion piece, which appeared on November 21, 2007 in The Beijing News (Êñ∞‰∫¨Êä•, Chinese original in PDF) and was then translated by Dui Hua, raises concerns about the future of China’s Supreme People’s Court. […]
Read MoreThe 2007 launch of the 100-year-old Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, from GM Europe
Read MoreThe BBC is launching a series on China’s relationship with Africa. The first piece examines the economic ties between the two: Africa’s need for new and better roads, school buildings, computer networks, telecoms systems and power generation has opened a lucrative window of opportunity for Chinese firms. The new Sino-African dynamic can leave the West […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: EastSouthWestNorth has translated an excellent story on the translation crisis in China that first appeared in Phoenix Weekly. It talks about the more than 1,000 foreign literary works that are translated and published in China each year (and we assume that number is still growing). The story laments over the “awfulness of the […]
Read MoreA rich family in Shenyang, Liaoning Province used 38 Hummers for a wedding ceremony last Saturday. These cars jammed Shenyang streets and ran red lights. However, it was difficult for police to track and punish them, as the license plates of the Hummers were covered in advance. Story from Beijing Morning News and photo via […]
Read MoreThe following interview with the former CCTV president Yang Weiguang was originally published in the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend, to mark Chinese Journalists Day. The segment below, translated by CDT, is about his gagging...
Read Morepda: the digital content blog on The Guardian website writes about a new study of habits of Internet users in China and the U.S.: While 61% of the Chinese respondents, who had an average age of just over 20, agreed with the statement “I have a parallel life online”, only 13% of Americans said the […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, David Shambaugh writes about the causes of growing tensions between China and the European Union: Tensions have grown over the past year, for a number of reasons. In particular, there has been a changed mood in Europe about China. This is evident on a number of levels – public, corporate […]
Read MoreOn October 13th this year, Ma Shaofang, one of the student organizers of the 1989 Tian’anmen hunger strike and now a businessman in Shenzhen, was invited to “tea” by local authorities to warn him of the...
Read MoreChang’e I, China’s recently launched lunar probe, has delivered it’s first photo of the moon, providing Wen Jiabao opportunity to wax poetic about the future of China’s space exploration efforts. From AFP: “Chinese people’s dream of flying to the moon for more than 1,000 years is beginning to materialise,” Wen said in a speech carried […]
Read MoreGlobal media have blanketed French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first official visit to the Middle Kingdom, with the French government describing Sarkozy’s meeting with Hu Jintao as a “nice pingpong game.” The results of game so far? Unprecedented successes for French business, vague promises on currency reform, and even vaguer promises on human rights. To wit: […]
Read MoreVimeo hosts a highly polished documentary on China’s environmental crisis, part of Kontent Real’s PBS series “e2: The Economies of Being Enviromentally Conscious,” narrated by one Brad Pitt: China, From Red to Green from Free More News on Vimeo.
Read MoreAs Chinese authorities continue to batter the drum of a “socialist harmonious society,” the possibilty of actually realizing such a thing seems to grow ever more distant. Such, at least, is the message suggested by...
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