This is my OP-ED piece on the San Francisco Chronicle: Development of the Internet in China is the result of government efforts to promote a knowledge-based economy in a global environment – all as part of a master plan to preserve the power of the Chinese Communist Party. The unintended result, however, is the ability […]
Read MoreThis year’s Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 25th. It is a tradition for Chinese people to buy mooncakes to celebrate the festival. Do you want to know how a chef make mooncakes? See below:
Read MoreIan Buruma writes about the potential impact, or lack thereof, that activists will likely have on the 2008 Olympics: For the first time, thousands of reporters from all over the world will be able to look around the...
Read MoreESWN translates an article from the Sun about Foshan city, Guangdong, where villagers have taken over the village committee building for over two months: Earlier this month, the village party secretary who had been the target of criticisms resigned. The town government sent in three cadres to take over government work in the village. As […]
Read MoreAfter ten days of harsh military training at Shandong University of Science and Technology in September, the 5,000 incoming students were organized to march in a military parade for the closing ceremony. Trained students lined up in twelve formations to put on military performances for the school leaders and military generals. Wang Chunqiu (ÁéãÊò•Áßã), president […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: The value of China’s social security fund had reached 400 billion yuan (US$53.3 billion) by the end of June this year, said Wang Zhongmin, deputy director of China’s National Council for Social Security Fund (NSSF). The security fund reported a profit rate of 15.2 percent in the first half of […]
Read MoreFrom FT.com: China is planning to introduce rules by the end of the year to allow a handful of foreign investment banks to invest in joint ventures with local securities firms, according to senior government officials and banking executives. …Under the revised rules, foreign investment banks would be allowed to own up to 33 per […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China’s environmental watchdog has taken three cities, one county and one industrial zone off its blacklist as these places have passed environmental reassessment. The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said in a notice on Sunday that the five areas have met the “essential requirements” of environmental protection after “earnest overhaul.” […]
Read MoreDanwei carried a video interview with Hooters’ store manager in Beijing, produced by Thomas Crampton. Danwei introduced Crampton as the “former Hong Kong correspondent for the International Herald Tribune who now lives in Beijing, and has a blog, and a Youtube channel.”
Read MoreFrom Knox County Times: Keeping pace in modern technology has prevented contemporary Chinese artists from dying before the West learned of them.No wonder the stock market is lagging, and the money is being invested in Chinese art. On June 21 at Sotheby’s, Chinese artists, which most will not have heard of, set records. Yue Minjun’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: Inspectors from China’s education watchdog will fan out across the country to conduct safety checkup at kindergartens, middle and primary schools. “Five inspection teams have already been set up,” a spokesman with the Ministry of Education said on Sunday. The inspection will focus on the overhaul of “illegal school shuttle […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: They have names like the Brilliance BS6, the Landwind Fashion, or the improbable Hover Wingle, and though these sedans, vans, and sport utility vehicles are hardly as familiar to Europeans as, say, a Volkswagen Golf, they are beginning to show up on European roads. “I’ve got air conditioning, ABS brakes, and […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Rescuers were struggling on Sunday to extinguish a three-day-old fire in a northern China coal mine that has killed three miners and left another 15 missing, state media reported. The latest deadly accident in China’s notoriously dangerous mining sector began on Wednesday night, when an underground cable apparently caught fire, igniting the blaze […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: After a week of meetings with Chinese energy, environmental and clean-car experts, I’m left with one big, gnawing question: Can China go green without going orange? That is, can China really undertake the energy/environmental revolution it needs without the empowerment of its people to a whole new degree ” √† […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Google Inc launched a Chinese-language video search service yesterday, its latest effort to attract users and increase market share in the battle against its more-dominant domestic rival. The service, like the company’s Chinese Web search, will comply with Chinese laws to filter out links that are not allowed here, or those that […]
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