This may become a lightning rod to draw controversy. Translated from Beijing Morning Post: Shanghai’s Jiaotong University (‰∏äʵ∑‰∫§ÈÄö§ßÂ≠¶), a prestigious engineering school, published its 2007 university ranking on Saturday, on which Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley top the list. What’s surprising, or not, is China’s top schools only rank as low as 167th and 228th […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Drivers in Beijing have been urged to leave their cars at home from Friday to improve the city’s air quality during test events for next year’s Olympics. Over the four days of “Good Luck Beijing” test events, drivers are encouraged to use buses, subways, taxis or bikes instead. Extra public transport will […]
Read MoreJason Dean writes a report on Terry Gou (ÈÉ≠Âè∞Èì≠), a Taiwanese tycoon who “owns about 30% of Hon Hai Precision, an Electronics Manufacturing Services company that makes the AirPort Express for Apple Computer, among other technology parts.” From The Wall Street Journal: Past a guarded gate on the outskirts of this city sits one of […]
Read MoreXinhua reports that Chinese people buy more books online than in the bookstores, via People ‘s Daily Online: On-line shopping is growing rapidly in China, and more and more Chinese are buying books on the net. An earlier report issued by AC Nielsen revealed that China has the highest online book-purchasing rate in the world. […]
Read MoreReuters follows up on the fake news of cardboard dumpling: A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced a television reporter to one year in jail for fabricating a report that Beijing dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling. The official Xinhua news agency said the journalist, Zi Beijia, was convicted after an open court hearing of […]
Read MoreChina banned trading in tiger parts since 1993, and Dr Brendan Moyle, “senior lecturer at Massey University,” says that one of the solutions to prevent extinction is to allow the farms to trade tigher parts, which can “make poaching unprofitable.” From Nzherald.co.nz: China needs to lift the ban on the sale of tiger parts if […]
Read MorePeople caught a 3 metre long catfish in Guangdong, via Shanghaiist
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity. Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The ongoing “Peace Mission 2007” anti-terror joint drill, sponsored by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), will target the “three evil forces” but will not push SCO into a military alliance, Chinese and Russian experts said on Saturday. “To crack down on the ‘three evil forces’ – terrorism, separatism and extremism – is a […]
Read MoreOn Straits Times, Asad Latif, a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), reviews Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming The World by Joshua Kurlantzick: This book argues starkly that China may become the first nation after the fallen Soviet Union to challenge the United States seriously for control […]
Read MoreFrom South Asia Analysis Group: The US is not the only country, which has been pressing President General Pervez Musharraf to “do more” against jihadi terrorists operating from sanctuaries in Pakistani territory. China too has been exercising similar pressure on the Pakistani authorities to “do more” against Uighur and other terrorists operating from Pakistani territory, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Washington Post: Four prison officials were sentenced to jail on bribery charges for giving preferential treatment to a jailed real estate tycoon, state media reported. Huang Jian, the former director Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai, was sentenced to 11 years in prison after the court found that he took $53,000 in bribes […]
Read MoreDaniel Allen is a freelance writer and photographer from London who has lived in China for the past three years. He writes an article for Asia Times Online to alarm people to pay attention to the enviromental crisis at Yangshuo where “it has become popular with foreign backpackers.” Eyeing the sweaty crowd shifting along West […]
Read MoreA man cycles past a giant poster of China’s past three leaders – Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, by Life in Nanning via Flickr
Read MoreFrom the NPR news: The children of China’s postwar baby boomers are getting married, and as a result, China has seen a surge in marriages since 2005. While most Chinese people still hold traditional weddings, others are eager to do something different. My wedding was a fusion of Chinese and American culture. I wore a […]
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