From Reuters: China’s financial hub is planning to set aside 15 sq km (6 sq miles) of its suburbs as wetlands to improve the quality of its water, a major priority nationwide, state media said on Tuesday. The Qingpu district of Shanghai is planning to develop the wetlands around Dianshan Lake, the source of about […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Financial Times: China’s efforts at environmental protection have been ineffective and inefficient largely because the central government has been unable to implement its policies, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said. Rapidly growing China is poised to overtake the United States as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, and Beijing […]
Read MoreHere is an article from Taiwan News Online, about Xiamen protests against PX factory in June: Massive protests in Xiamen, reputedly “China’s cleanest city,” early last month against a planned US$1.4 billion paraxylene factory may become as significant for the environmental movement in the authoritarian People’s Republic of China as a successful campaign in 1986 […]
Read MoreIn Asia Sentinel, Philip Bowring says the new consultation document on Hong Kong democracy “muddies the debate and obscures the truth”: The Hong Kong government’s continuing charade that the people here have the determining voice in the territory’s constitutional development has found its latest expression with the publication of a Green Paper – a consultation […]
Read MoreFrom Chinanews.cn: According to a survey in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, about 30% of college graduates this year have not found employment yet, and many of those who have found jobs still can’t live on their own. The survey shows that only 52.1% of college graduates can earn their own livelihood. Besides, 60% of employed college […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Washington Post: China’s smog-choked cities and contaminated waterways are leaving many people sick and unable to work, in turn fomenting unrest and threatening the country’s economic growth, an international think-tank said Tuesday in a government-requested report. Concluding an 18-month review, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said China’s severely polluted […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Hollywood blockbuster “Transformers” has raked in more than 100 million yuan (about 13 million U.S. dollars) since opening on the Chinese mainland last Wednesday, easily outperforming the first-week sales of the American films already released this year. “Transformers spent the shortest time amassing more than 100 million yuan, compared with other American blockbusters […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In China, the production of fake goods is so rampant that there is a saying that “everything can be forged”. Indeed, forgery is not limited to manufactured goods. “Faking it” is easily transferred to social and legal arenas, such as divorce court. In recent years, the number of media-reported fake divorce […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China may allow the yuan to trade freely after Beijing hosts the Olympics next year, seeking to curb excessive lending and cool the economy, said Suan Teck Kin, an economist at United Overseas Bank Ltd. Suan predicts the currency will strengthen 1.8 percent by the end of the year to 7.43 per […]
Read MoreVarious outlets have noted that “traitor” Lin Biao (ÊûóÂΩ™ )–the hand-picked successor to Mao killed in an infamous plane crash in 1971 after supposedly conspiring to assassinate his benefactor–is included in a new display at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing. The display is called “The Ten Marshals” and depicts the men considered to have […]
Read MoreA butcher hacks at a pile of pork in Dali, Yunnan Province. Photo via Flickr from maskofchina.com.
Read MoreChina announced verdicts yesterday in the Shanxi Brick Kiln slave labor controversy. According to the New York Times, popular response to the government’s measures, which included prosecution of only a few low-level officials, has been somewhat less than enthusiastic: Chinese journalists say government propaganda officials have urged the news media to limit coverage of the […]
Read MoreIn the past few days, the Chinese internet has been alive with jokes and speculation that Guangzhou’s famously wide-ranging appetites might be brought to bear on the flood-driven field mouse invasion of Hunan’s Dongting Lake area. Earlier this week, several newspapers, including the Beijing Times (Chinese), reported buyers from Guangzhou had indeed arrived in the […]
Read MoreIt appears not every bit of environmental news out of China bespeaks disaster. A new report from Forest Trends, an NGO, credits Chinese willingness to use recycled waste paper with the salvation of millions of tons’ worth of forests worldwide: “Just last year, China’s use of waste-paper instead of trees to make paper products probably […]
Read MoreFrom UPI Asia Online: Sino-U.S. relations are at their best since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in mainland China. This is mainly because China, under the “fourth generation” leadership, has evolved to the point where it needs the United States more than the United States needs China. Also, the United States protects rather […]
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