Another classic from citizen journalist Li Xinde, translated by CDT: A late 2005 fire killed 39 patients and staffers at Liaoyuan City (ËæΩÊ∫êÂ∏Ç)’s Central Hospital, but people say the real culprit, the hospital president, is escaping responsibility, reportedly under the cover of some higher-up officials in Liaoning Province. The fire was triggered by sparks after […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal (photo: biofuel via krakoff.info): Representatives of more than a dozen U.S. companies, including General Electric Co. and DuPont Co., will touch down today in the southern Indian city of Chennai to kick off a one-week trade mission to India and China aimed at drumming up new business for America’s burgeoning […]
Read MoreAs we read about yet more mining accidents, here is a moving testimony to the dangers China’s miners face every day. Legal Daily carried the testimony — Testament of a Coal Mine Worker — via Cultural Vision on...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: CHINA has been hit by a fourth mass food poisoning incident in a week. Thirty-four students were hospitalized with suspected food poisoning after eating lunch at a factory cafeteria in Fujian Province on Tuesday, food safety authorities said yesterday. The food watchdog is analyzing fare from the cafeteria of the Guanda Garment […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has begun running a new service of high-speed trains, capable of speeds of over 200 km/h. Chinese railways are struggling to cope with increasing transport demands and the trains are seen as a way to boost passenger capacity. Last year China carried some 25% of the world’s passengers and freight, on […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports from the Canton Trade Fair in Guangzhou: Chinese producers of everything from socket wrenches to sport utility vehicles say, their fastest growth these days lies in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and elsewhere in Asia ” in other words, practically anywhere other than the United States. So it […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A sulphur dioxide leak at a chemical fertiliser plant in southwestern China has put about 140 students and teachers in hospital with respiratory problems, state media reported on Wednesday A plant producing triple superphosphate, in Xiaozhaiba, Guizhou, leaked “a huge amount” of sulphur dioxide on Monday morning, the Shanghai Daily said, citing a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Bracketed by stunning long shots taken from the front of a moving freight train, Wang Bing‘s epic, three-part documentary, Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks,” is an astonishingly intimate record of China’s painful transition from state-run industry to a free market. Filming between 1999 and 2001, Mr. Wang and his sound […]
Read MoreGao Qi (È´òÊóó), born in 1968 in Beijing, grew up in a musical family. He founded “Overload Band(Ë∂ÖËΩΩ‰πêÈòü)” in 1991 and became the lead singer and main songwriter. Besides music, Gao is also good at writing, which helps his touching and meaningful lyrics. Gao’s “Overload Band ” impresses people a lot, especially young people. His […]
Read MoreFrom Sina.com, translated by CDT: Gansu’s Yongjing county is one of poorest counties in China. On average, 10% of the population is below the poverty line here, and in certain parts the poverty rate reaches 70%. Recently, 9 high walls have been nicely built along the highway. The local government named these walls as “Cultural […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has created artificial snow for the first time in Tibet to head off possible drought, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, months after experts warned of melting glaciers in the Himalayan region. The Tibet meteorological station had performed a “successful artificial snowfall operation” last week in northern Tibet, about 4,500 meters above […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Some recent university graduates who have had trouble finding a job have resorted to working in bath centers as masseurs. The Beijing News reported on Monday that 5,000 students applied for jobs in this service sector. And 40 percent of those applicants were willing to be workers who rub the backs of […]
Read MoreChina today rejected calls by Britain to have the U.N. Security Council take action on climate change. From Reuters: Britain and China faced off on Tuesday in the first-ever U.N. Security Council debate on climate change, with Beijing saying the 15-member body had no competence in dealing with global warming. But British Foreign Secretary Margaret […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: At least 47 miners are trapped below ground in Chinese coal pits after three separate accidents happened all on the same day. Rescuers said at least two miners were trapped in the most recent accident, which occurred in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province at around 8:00 p.m. on Monday when a […]
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