Do you still remember the backdorm boys who video themselves singing along to Western pop songs? Below is their new video clip to Jessica Simpson’s new single “A Public Affair,” carried by Toutube: More of their videos here via CDT
Read MoreFrom China Daily via China.org: Some directors dazzle us with films that are slick, cool and stylish. Ang Lee‘s are none of those things especially but instead reveal the wisdom of a truly great storyteller. Who would imagine that a Chinese-language kungfu film would conquer the heart of mainstream America as well as sweep up […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has denied reports that its military hacked into the computer network of the US Department of Defense in Washington. A foreign ministry official said the claims “reflected Cold War mentality”. The Financial Times quoted US officials as saying the Chinese army made the attack, which crashed part of a system for […]
Read MoreThe Independent has a profile of actor-director Jiang Wen, who is back after a five year ban on directing that he earned for his 2000 film Devils on the Doorstep: Famously moody, bull-headed and a legend in Chinese counter-culture, Jiang is choosy about his acting career and tends to star in just one movie a […]
Read MoreFrom Planetark.org: Nearly 160 people were treated in hospital on Monday after toxic gas escaped from a pharmaceutical factory in southwestern China and seeped into a neighbouring clothes workshop, official media reported. A porcelain tank of bromine smashed when workers in a suburb of Chongqing were trying to move it, spilling 25 kg (60 lbs) […]
Read MoreOn Asia Sentinel, Willy Lam writes about the potential new lineup to emerge from the 17th Party Congress: With Beijing having announced the dates for the pivotal 17th CCP Congress – which starts on October 15 – the world’s gaze is on the top dogs who will be endorsed at this five-yearly conclave. Foremost on […]
Read MoreEsquire Magazine has a lengthy profile of Shenzhen: I thought about how in America we’ve been breaking ground for new buildings with actual machines for like a hundred years. Shenzhen is a brand-new city, a social explosion, with buildings blasting up out of the rock everywhere you look, with everybody being from someplace else and […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s soaring energy demand has forced it back into the global natural gas market in search of cleaner burning though potentially more expensive fuels to power industry and provide residential electricity. Hu Jintao, China’s president, presided over the signing of a 20-year agreement between PetroChina and Royal Dutch Shell in Perth on […]
Read MoreFrom Index on Censorship: Important efforts have been made in recent years to hold US corporations doing business abroad accountable under US law for aiding and abetting acts of torture and other major human rights abuses. In 1997, a groundbreaking case successfully initiated by EarthRights International challenged the practices of two US and French oil […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The government plans to set up the first national mechanism for combating trafficking to protect women and children from forced labor and prostitution. The joint effort by 21 ministries – including the ministries of public security, labor and social security, education and supervision – aims to provide sustainable and long-term solutions to […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review: A country’s overall balance of payments must always balance as a matter of double-entry accounting. Countries that run persistent current-account deficits must be running surpluses in their capital (financial) accounts. The fact that China is running a large current-account surplus with the United States means savings must exceed investments in China, and […]
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Read MoreAccording to the BBC, officials in Afghanistan are concerned that the Taliban are now fighting with weapons obtained from China, and that Iran may be playing the intermediary: The BBC has been told that on several occasions Chinese arms have been recovered after attacks on British and American troops by Afghan insurgents. The authorities in […]
Read MoreEvery year China Rich List remarks higher and higher records of the wealth from China’s richest people. But a recent survey said China’s new rich are having health problem, such as high blood pressure. From Xinhua: The checks of 123 men and 60 women from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou showed all had at least one […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced plans to drop all support for Zimbabwe, except humanitarian assistance, in an effort to tone down its support for dictatorial regimes: Robert Mugabe is to lose vital support from one of his few remaining allies on the world stage, China. One of the Zimbabwe president’s oldest diplomatic friends, China yesterday […]
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