From Associated Press: Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission Friday when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said. The standoff happened […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Nearly half of all teenage pregnancies in the wealthy Chinese city of Shanghai have been blamed on increased access to the internet. Doctor Zheng who runs a helpline for pregnant teenagers in the city reports that many of the girls said they had met the boys they had sex with online. The […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: … Hu Jintao stressed: Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the banner of development and progress in contemporary China and the banner of struggle in unity for the whole party and for the people of all ethnic groups in China. We must unswervingly uphold Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thinking […]
Read MoreLiu Junning (ÂàòÂÜõÂÆÅ) is a researcher on social issues at the Institute of Chinese Culture under China’s Ministry of Culture. UPI Asia Online translated the article (original Chinese here): Recently exposed cases of enslaved child and adult laborers in China’s inland provinces have drawn nationwide attention. There are different opinions as to the causes behind […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: July 1 marked the 10th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong. In the troubled pre-handover negotiations between the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Beijing was able to assuage London’s concerns over preservation of Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedom by putting forward a “one country, two systems” […]
Read MoreA netizen by the name “1913” published a list of an unidentified city’s various government agencies (including tax-funded organizations) and the numbers of public servants in them. It triggered interesting...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: That Nanking, a powerful new US documentary on the rape of the city (now known as Nanjing), has been approved for domestic screening in China reveals that the ghosts of the gruesome events 70 years ago still haunt Sino-Japanese relations. …The 90-minute documentary in English with Chinese subtitles focuses on a […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: About 99 percent of China’s exported food is safe, a senior official of the country’s quality watchdog said today in Beijing. The Chinese government is very responsible and supervises each step of the process in food exports, said Lin Wei, vice director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine….[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: China’s outbound tourism market is growing faster than expected. About 16 million Chinese traveled overseas in the first five months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 14 percent, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) said yesterday. The pace of growth is more than the CNTA’s forecast of 10 percent […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadialogue: Christine Loh reported Hong Kong’s environmental policy over a decade on Chinadialogue. He states that “On a per capita basis, Hong Kong residents use more resources and create more pollution in 2007 than they did in 1997.” Hong Kong’s environmental policy over the past decade has seen some advancement, but there has also […]
Read MoreA child bikes in the rain in Chengdu. Photo by +graemetric-.
Read MoreAs this year’s unusually nasty flood season continues, China finds itself considering measures both harrowing and strange. First, from the Bankok Post: An estimated 2 billion field mice are chomping their way hungrily through crops in 22 counties (discricts) around the Dongting Lake in central China’s Hunan province after their homes on islands in the […]
Read MoreMore ammunition for the U.S. in its aborning trade war with China, via Bloomberg: The trade gap, released by the customs bureau today, widened by 87 percent from a year earlier after exporters rushed to beat cuts in export tax rebates. A Bloomberg News survey of 15 economists had a median estimate of $23.8 billion. […]
Read MoreThe BBC’s Central Asia correspondent takes a long look at a story that usually gets little play: Efforts by Uighur refugees in Kazakhstan to avoid being sent back to Xinjiang: In a dimly-lit room, Khader and his friends showed us piles of paperwork – thick files of dozens of asylum seekers, with black and white […]
Read MoreWriting in the Belfast Telegraph, former Hong Kong-based journalist and Trusted Sources‘ China editor Jonathan Fenby takes on the argument, widespread after China’s recent climb to the top of the greenhouse gas pyramid, that Western economies bear responsibility for the country’s greenhouse emissions: Proponents of Western guilt add that the developed countries should stump up […]
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