Asia Pacific News reports that a recent film made by a Tibetan exile and his Indian wife, has raised the hackles of the Chinese government: ‘Dreaming Lhasa‘, produced by Hollywood star Richard Gere and made by the husband-wife team of Indian Ritu Sarin and Tibetan exile Tenzing Sonam, premiered at the Imaginasian Theater in New […]
Read MoreXining (Ë•øÂÆÅ) is the provincial capital of Qinghai. Following clip is from YouTube:
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, an update on the laundering of North Korean money in Macau banks: The investigations, concluded 20 months ago, also produced a money trail that led to the Chinese gambling enclave of Macao, where American investigators concluded that criminals linked to North Korea were laundering their earnings. This effort produced the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (photo: transsexual candidate Zhang Lei, via chinadaily.com.cn): A 24-year-old male Chinese, determined to become a woman, got financial support Sunday from South Korean transsexual entertainer Ha Ri-su to finance his gender alteration surgery, Qilu Evening News reported Monday. In 2005, Zhang told his parents about his transsexual plan, to his father’s fury […]
Read MoreCantonese are known for a penchant for exotic food, but this is much crazier, not verified by CDT. Translated by EastSouthWestNorth blog: According to a notice from the Obscene Articles Tribunal, an inspection of the content of Issue No. 304 of Taiwan’s resulted in the magazine being classified as Category III obscene due to the […]
Read MoreNail house domino in the works? Here is another from Shenzhen, reported by South China Morning Post, via Simon World (photo: the Shenzhen nail house, via Simon World): Developers wanting to turn a Shenzhen site into the city’s tallest building are being blocked by an obstinate Hong Kong man whose building has become the mainland’s […]
Read MoreTime Europe tells the stories of illegal immigrants from China who make it in England, and those who don’t. From “Dreams of Leaving”: Why do so many middle-class Chinese risk a perilous crossing, mountains of debt and years of grueling labor to start over in a strange land? Life in Fujian is not one of […]
Read MoreFrom Letters from China blog: The photographs were taken by Woeser (ÂîØËâ≤)’s father, a Tibetan People’s Liberation Army’s officer: The Red Guards who damaged the Jokhang Temple. Most of them were the students of Lhasa Secondary School. There was a portrait of Mao Zedong. The banner reads: “Completely destroy the old world! We shall be […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (RFA), thanks to David Kelly for the translation: Wen Jiabao’s official visit to Japan this week has been referred to by the Chinese media as an ice-melting journey. Public opinion everywhere is of the view that the years of Sino-Japanese freeze triggered by Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine should […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a pitch — literally — for friendship with Japan on a visit to Kyoto on Friday, winding up a landmark trip aimed at building on an emerging detente between the two rivals. Wen’s three-day trip to Japan has combined high-level talks with a common touch — jogging, chatting […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China is preparing a multi-billion-dollar buying mission to major American cities next month as part of a package of initiatives to reduce its swelling trade surplus and ease bilateral tensions with the US. Although details have yet to be finalised, the buying mission is to be led by Ma Xiuhong, a […]
Read MoreDust Storms from China? The filmer says so. From YouTube: This incredible site, filmed during a level 4 dust storm from China More below:
Read MoreFrom CCTV via Xinhuanet: China’s arable land shrank to 121.8 million hectares by the end of last October, losing 306,800 hectares in the first ten months of 2006. A national land survey (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) by the Ministry of Land and Resources showed land used for construction totaled 258,533 hectares last year, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: With food poisoning and shoddy fake medicine cases frequently reported to have caused deaths in China, the government is expected to issue a comprehensive plan to track and trace food products. According to an ongoing national conference on standardizing market economic order, the national guidelines for food and drug safety have been approved […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian, via Buzzle.com: Carcasses kept in storage as Beijing looks to lift ban on sale of exotic animal parts. The padlocked freezer at Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain Village attracts little attention from the tourists who throng to the park each day. Most are more interested in the bloody spectacle of tigers savaging […]
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