From China Daily: While presenting a work plan for the year at a national seminar in January, an official from the Provincial HIV/AIDS Prevention Committee of Gansu said they planned to find partners at the community level to promote education to prevent HIV/AIDS.
Read MoreRev. Dr. Cao Shengjie has served as President of the China Christian Council (CCC) since 2002. Cao also serves as volunteer pastor of Grace Church of Shanghai. This is from WashingtonPost.com: The past few weeks, I have been traveling in the U.S. – Los Angeles, Hawaii, New York City, and Washington, D.C. – to meet […]
Read MoreFrom Gulf Daily News: India announced yesterday a successful test-firing of a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile than can reach the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai as well as targets deep in the Middle East. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom ChinaDialogue.org: Beijing is choking as dust sweeps in from China’s arid, ecologically-degraded west. Gaoming Jiang investigates, and finds that efforts to restore the western grasslands are failing. In Beijing, the weather forecast says that more sandstorms are on the way. The capital was hit by four sandstorms in March, and even Shanghai was recently […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Examiner.com: The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography, complaining it has “perverted China’s young minds,” a state news agency said Friday. The Ministry of Public Security says the six-month campaign will target cyber strip shows and sexually explicit images, stories and audio and video clips, according to the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Japan’s almost unparalleled dependence on imported resources to drive its economy has long forced it to focus on weaning itself off foreign oil, gas and coal. In the 1930s and 1940s its preferred – and ultimately disastrous – method was to grab those resources by imperial expansion in China and south-east Asia. […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Its environment is a world-class mess, but the mainland has ambitious plans to use and produce solar power cells and panels China is home to some of the most polluted cities on the planet and likely will overtake the U.S. as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases by the end of the […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged blog: This clip was uploaded to YouTube by Duowei News, which appears to be an overseas Chinese-run news Web site[ZH]. Here is an English translation of the comments by Mo Shaoping, a Chinese lawyer well-known for defending political prisoners and representing clients in high-profile civil rights cases, like Gao Zhisheng‘s. All the […]
Read MoreOn April 9, at 22:20:51 Beijing time, your correspondent received the following SMS in shorthand Chinese from an anonymous sender: “…Hotels and neighborhood homes can pick up Christian Bible stations, Phoenix, HBO, CNN, adult and other satellite programs. Anti-surveillance system and cable TV installation. Equipment sales. Text reply to 81607635.” At first glance, it seemed […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: For the past two years, China has protected the Sudanese government as the United States and Britain have pushed for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Sudan for the violence in Darfur. Technorati Tags: Darfur
Read More27 students in a class of at Mancheng County, Hebei Province, were found poisoned with mercury, via thebeijingnews.com
Read MoreThe New Yorker magazine has a lengthy feature piece by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra about the railroad to Tibet, which he took from Beijing to Lhasa to investigate what impact the train would have on Tibetan culture and society. The article includes an interview with Tibetan writer and blogger Woeser. Unfortunately only an abstract of […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Outward bound and inward bound are the yin and yang of Chinese landscape painting. Movement is the modus operandi in an art that takes us hiking up mountains and cruising down streams, but always in a spirit of rumination. This is action painting as thinking. “Journeys: Mapping the Earth and […]
Read MoreFrom AP via China Daily: China’s foreign reserves, already the world’s largest, have risen past $1.2 trillion, a state news agency said Thursday, amid surging trade and plans to create a multibillion-dollar company to invest some of the stockpile. The figure, as of the end of March, represented a 37.4 percent rise over the same […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Beijing Review (photo: snow-capped Qinghai-Tibet rail line, via flickr.com): Glaciers in China have shrunk by 3,248 square kilometers in the past 40 years, according to a new analysis. The area of glaciers has shrunk by 5.5 percent since the 1960s and the volume has dwindled by 389 cubic kilometers, about seven percent […]
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