With full names missing, Hunan provincial family planning agency made public a list of cadres, officials and other celebrities who have broken the law of birt control and/or have kept mistresses, translated from Red Net: Problem...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Pushing China into allowing a faster appreciation of the yuan has consequences for Americans looking for cheaper products and low interest rates even as it helps U.S. companies compete globally and protects local jobs. Backers of a stronger Chinese currency against the dollar argue it will improve the U.S. balance of trade with […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Today’s boys may face a major problem when they become tomorrow’s men – they will find it very difficult to get hitched, simply because there won’t be enough women. Sociologists are calling for swift measures to be taken to address the nation’s growing gender ratio imbalance. China now has 37 million more […]
Read MoreAn unemployed couple beaten by policemen in Kunming, Yunnan province , via bbs.fengniao.com.
Read MoreWhile the Bush Administration declined to label China as a “currency manipulator” in June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice commented on CNBC that China could act more fairly on currency issues. From Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that China “doesn’t play fair” on trade and currency matters. U.S. officials have […]
Read MoreFrom Earthtime.org: When former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Beijing’s Lugou Bridge in October 2001, his laying of a wreath and his “heartfelt apology” for Japan’s wartime atrocities in China received a lukewarm response from Chinese leaders. As China marks the 70th anniversary of the July 7, 1937 “Luguou Bridge incident,” which started Japan’s […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China on Thursday denied that it had requested the World Bank (WB) to delete data concerned with China from a environmental report. “China’s related departments have carried out some cooperative programs with the World Bank in environmental protection. The report has not drawn conclusion yet and has not been released,” said […]
Read MoreThe little boy’s surname is Zhou. He came to the town with his parents. He has no chance to play like other kids, but tries to help his family. The photographer didn’t have more information of the boy but some vivid photos:
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A pair of twin panda cubs were born on Thursday in a southwest China giant panda research center. The first new cub is male and was born at 1:00 p.m. and the second was born five hours later – its sex is still unknown as its mother has not let it out of […]
Read MoreThe BBC is the latest to report on the controversies surrounded the construction of the Dongtan eco-city outside Shanghai: Conventional cars will be banned in the city centre, while the plans include capturing and purifying water, waste management recycling, reducing landfills that damage the environment, and creating combined heat and power systems. …But some observers, […]
Read MoreBloomberg has posted a podcast interview with Steve Tsang about Hong Kong politics and Taiwan’s relationship with the PRC: Steve Tsang, a professor at Oxford University, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about his books, “If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics,” and “A Modern History of Hong Kong,” and China’s relationships with Hong […]
Read MoreOn June 19, Xiao Jinpeng was killed when his mobile phone battery exploded . Chinese and Motorola investigators have speculated that the exploding battery was a fake, but officials are worried that counterfeit batteries could have been exported. From the International Herald Tribune: After concerns over pet food, toothpaste, seafood and defective tires, China may […]
Read MoreAfter the Xiammen PX environmental protests, local authority threatens to ban anonymous online posts. From Times Online: Officials in a Chinese city have drawn up a ban on anonymous online postings and the censorship of cyberspace chatroom exchanges after citizens organised China’s first middle-class protest against the threat of pollution. …… The police were shocked […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: For the second time in three months, a former high-ranking official at China’s top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death for corruption and approving bogus drugs, according to the state-run news media. Cao Wenzhuang, who until 2005 was in charge of drug registration approvals at the […]
Read MoreIs this really just “the season of scandal”? Or is it simply that “reality is catching up”? From International Herald Tribune: This has been the season of scandal in China, from the revelation that hundreds of people, including kidnapped children, had been held as virtual slaves to work in the primitive brick factories of Shanxi […]
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