From Washington Post: A few weeks ago, Pang Jiaoming‘s career as a reporter ended, just two years after it began. The Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department and the official All-China Journalists Association issued a directive ordering Pang’s employer, the China Economic Times, not only to fire him, but also to “reinforce the Marxist ideological education […]
Read MoreFrom Chinese Law and Politics Blog: What causes social unrest in China? Institutional failure. That’s the message delivered by Yu Jianrong, Director of the Institute of Rural Development at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in a series of speeches in California during late October. His comments underline the extent to which social unrest in China […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: On the outskirts of the main town in one of China’s poorest counties, a series of opulent buildings is slowly rising up from the earth. These half-finished structures will eventually house the various government departments of Gushi county in Henan province. But the local government is being criticised because it is spending […]
Read MoreA proposed 2008 Games statue displayed on Wangfujing in Beijing, by Eugene Wei via Flickr.
Read More“Made in China” a ruined brand? Not so fast. New figures put China’s October trade surplus at $27.05 billion, an all-time monthly high. From the Associated Press: The General Administration of Customs said in a statement on its Web site that the October figure was up 13.5 percent from the same month a year ago. […]
Read MoreThat is AFP’s read on Chinese government plans, announced in the China Daily today, to manage foreign journalists who come to Beijing for the 2008 festivities. The plan, described by the head of the General Administration...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Guardian: Chinese cities have ordered checks on supermarkets in the wake of a chaotic cooking oil promotion in a Carrefour store in which three people were trampled to death. The dead were among hundreds of customers who crushed into one of the French retail giant stores in Chongqing, a sprawling southwestern […]
Read MoreThe following was originally posted on Beijing based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan’s blog and translated by CDT: On the afternoon of November 2, a lawyer named Mr. Li received a phone call from a lawyer friend with another law firm,...
Read MoreThe opening Ceremony is like a fashion show, animals participate in the performances, no wonder China’s Minority Nationalities Games will attract eyeballs. The game is held in Guangzhou between Nov. 10th to 18th this year. More than 30 teams (about 10,000 athletes) represents different provinces. Photos and story via Dayang Net.
Read MoreFrom China Business News, summary translation by CDT: Mr. Wang, an owner of five or six properties in Shenzhen, has felt the chill running through the pioneering city’s real estate market. Wang is busy renovating a newly purchased apartment so he can rent it out and pay off the monthly mortgage. While recently doing the […]
Read MoreA commentary translated by CDT from the Beijing News Beginning last week, all who want to audit classes at Beijing University will have to apply for an audit permit. These permits will have to be obtained in the first week of each semester, and applicants must have a certificate from their employers or schools before […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China has a huge potential for wind resources utilisation. According to the China Meteorological Administration, China’s on-shore and off-shore exploitable wind resources represent a potential power generation capacity of 253 gigawatts (GW) and 750 GW respectively – a total estimated wind power potential of about 1,000 GW. Even 60% of this could […]
Read MoreSherif Soliman, a Current Correspondent, says in the video that “Rapid development in China lead to the extinction of the Yangtze fresh water dolphin a.k.a the Baiji. There remains another mammal, the porpoise, in the Yangtze River in the same position where the dolphin was.” An expert interviewed by Soliman says that if the porpoise […]
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, essayist Mao Jian writes about the changing attitudes in China toward love: These days in China, five years in business is a lifetime. One place near my apartment was a Sichuanese restaurant for a few months, then an Internet caf√© for a few more. By springtime it was a bookstore, and […]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: Hong Kong is planning to spend up to US$20 million (‚Ǩ13.62 million) to stir up Olympic fever in the Chinese territory and abroad ahead of next year’s Beijing Games, an official said Saturday. Hong Kong, a former British colony on the southern edge of mainland China, will host the equestrian events […]
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