Chinese are a hard working people. But faced with skyrocketing housing prices, Chinese also have to think hard how to live cheap, such as refugee-like group rentals (Áæ§Áßü) in Shanghai. Translated from Guangzhou Daily: In Shanghai, the average new-apartment price has gone up from 8,818 yuan per square meter in August 2006 to 10,280 yuan […]
Read MoreChina is rolling out a new timetable for the building of it oil reserves, vice minister Lu Deming (ÈôàÂæ∑Èì≠) of the National Development and Reform Commission said while attending a China-US oil and gas industry forum in the United States on Sept. 11. China will quadruple its current oil reserve level in three years, from […]
Read MoreAt Beijing’s Coal Hill Park, older residents gather to sing Mao-era songs and gripe about current day discontents. The Sunday get-togethers are a sort of living oldies radio channel. From NPR: (Photos by redheart)
Read MoreWill the troubled road that Hong Kong Disneyland has walked suspend Shanghai’s idea to build another Disneyland in the future? From AP: Hong Kong Disneyland, a major showcase of Disney entertainment for mainland China,...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Journal: When the capital city of the world’s largest authoritarian police state hosts a rock concert with headliners Public Enemy and Nine Inch Nails, how does it prevent mayhem from breaking out? Answer: police. Lots of em. The Beijing Pop Festival was an impressive contradiction of rock-fueled mayhem that brought performers and audience […]
Read MoreA new study from UC Davis and the University of New Mexico says the so-called Great Firewall is more of a “panopticon” than a wall. From the BBC: Carried out by US researchers outside China, it found that the firewall often failed to block what the Chinese government finds objectionable. The firewall was least effective […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Nine 1,700-year-old brick tombs have been discovered in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which, experts say, provide valuable clues for the research of exchanges between the central Chinese government at that time and remote Western Regions. It is the first time ancient tombs with typical characteristics of China’s main Han nationality have […]
Read MoreReuters reports that a riot broke out among 2,000 retired soldiers. They smashed equipment and set fires in their school in Baotou in Inner Mongolia against poor living conditions. From The Star: …Similar riots occurred in Baoji, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, and Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in central China, on the same […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s Compulsory Education Law which took effect last September stipulates that the local average wage for teachers should not be lower than that of civil servant. Teachers’ wages generally comprise two parts: “basic income” and “structural income” which varies according to rank, school and region….[Full Text] See also “A Generation of Rural Teachers […]
Read MoreFrom Heritage Foundation website: Members of the House and Senate have introduced legislation aimed at punishing China for unfair manipulation of its currency. They blame China’s alleged currency manipulation for the $232.5 billion U.S. trade deficit with China and the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Accordingly, their proposals include a wide variety of retaliatory measures, […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: China’s cola wars just got a little…confusing. In most countries, the major rival colas are delineated by color: Coca-Cola Co.’s can is red, while that of PepsiCo Inc. is blue. But in China, Pepsi has departed from tradition and launched a red can as part of a new marketing campaign. […]
Read MoreOn September 11, Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, gave a keynote speech at the US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference 2007: … The particular referendum supported by President Chen concerns us considerably more than would a generic referendum on applying to the UN. What worries us, very specifically, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Anson Chan, a leading democrat and one of the most popular political figures in Hong Kong, announced today that she would seek election to the local Legislature, giving a significant boost to a push for full democracy by 2012. Ms. Chan, a former Hong Kong chief secretary, the local government’s […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: “Scientific development,” emphasizing a view of development that is people-centered, multi-faceted, harmonious, and sustainable, is a fashionable term in China nowadays and enjoys support from all strata of society. What this article wants to add is that democracy is also a development concept; science and democracy are both aspects of […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China blocked access to 18,401 illegal Websites during a nationwide campaign against online pornography that started in April, an industry newspaper reported today. A total of 9,593 unregistered Websites were shut down while 8,808 Websites were closed for disseminating pornographic, illicit or fraudulent pictures and information on the Internet, said Miao Wei, […]
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