From The Eonomic Times: China will ensure ample food supply in the coming months to keep prices down, state media said Saturday, in yet another reaction to shock inflation figures released recently. The price of food staples such as wheat, soybean and pork are to be kept at an affordable level by measures such as […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is holding a No Car Day in more than 100 cities as it tries to reduce smog ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Cars have been banned on some central streets in Beijing and all drivers are being encouraged to leave their cars at home voluntarily. But correspondents say that in […]
Read MoreStill here are more works from Liu Yang, a Chinese-born German designer. Liu made this iconic cultural comparison. Blue is Germany; Red is China. Recommended by Don Clarke: Leaders:
Read MoreThe New York Times tells the story of pianist Xu Hong and his parents, who came from China to watch him perform with the Julliard Orchestra: The Xu family’s story ” of parental sacrifice; of a son’s migration to the West for training; of his endless, single-minded study ” brings together the many strands of […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak: There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned open day to demonstrate Party transparency. On Thursday, the Communist Party’s internal disciplinary body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, allowed foreign reporters a little peek around its offices for the first time. The AP reporter wrote a fairly matter-of-fact story on the landmark stroll around […]
Read MoreA worshipper at Hongjialou Cathedral in Jinan, Shandong, by Patrick He
Read MoreA couple of days ago, a netizen posted a group of photos entitled “Ceremony for the Relocation of Longhe Town Government.” The photos depicted hundreds of people in a spectacular parade organized into different line-ups. Police cars even attended to help clear the way for the parade. The post and the photos have spread like […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: US baby furniture supplier Simplicity is recalling about one million Chinese-made cots that have been linked to at least two infant deaths. The adjustable side of the cot can detach, creating a dangerous gap that may trap a baby, said the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Yet CPSC added that it […]
Read MoreBelow is the third part of Michael Bristow’s series report on one-child policy, via BBC News: …Many rural couples, accounting for 52.9% of the population, are able to have two children if the first one is a girl, he said. In other provinces, parents can have two children regardless of the sex of the first […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China will continue its efforts in the battle to prevent climate change, said Yu Qingtai, China’s new special representative of Ministry of Foreign Affairs for climate change negotiations, on Friday. While seeking economic growth China had been controlling energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the country’s sustainable […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: When people talk about the “dirtier” side of China’s economic development they usually mean air and water pollution. But there’s more to it than that, as a gallery show currently on in Shanghai demonstrates. Liu Jianhua is a sculptor who first caught the art world’s attention in the mid 1990s […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China took a significant step towards improving its traditionally turbulent links with the Vatican today with the consecration of a new bishop of Beijing who is widely believed to have the formal support of the Pope. Joseph Li Shan was installed to the influential role within China’s state-controlled Catholic church in a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Olympic torch will not stop in Taiwan en route to the Beijing Games in 2008, Taiwanese officials said on Friday after talks broke down with China which considers the self-ruled island sovereign territory. International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials had wanted Taiwan and China to reach a verdict by September 20, sports officials […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: A Communist Party Congress might seem like a throwback to an older, less dynamic China. What the public sees of these events, scheduled once every five years, are video clips of 2,000-plus bureaucrats in the Great Hall of the People, a monumental, socialist-realist edifice in the heart of Beijing. In a vast auditorium […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The number of new HIV/AIDS cases reported in Beijing in the first half of the year was almost as high as the total for 2006, a spokesman for the Beijing Association of STD and AIDS Prevention and Control said Thursday. Guan Baoying, deputy director of the association, said 563 new cases had […]
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