From Radio Free Asia (photo: a Tibetan monk, via omf.org.hk): Leading Tibetan Buddhist religious teachers meeting in India have urged Tibetans to give up vices they say are common in the Himalayan region, including drinking and gambling. The leaders, meeting in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, cited alcohol […]
Read MoreFrom Elite Chinese Politics and Political Economy: …… another senior official comes under investigation by the Central Discipline and Inspection Commission–this time at my home away from home Haidian District in Beijing. Zhou Liangluo, the ambitious party secretary of Haidian District, was detained by the CDIC on charges of corruption. [Full Text] Help to write […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: The list of Chinese food exports rejected at American ports reads like a chef’s nightmare: pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella. Yet, it took a much more obscure item, contaminated wheat gluten, to focus U.S. public attention on a very real and frightening fact: China’s chronic […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: …The REN Building is a proposal for a hotel, sports and conference center for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The building is conceived as two buildings merging into one. The first building, emerging from the water, is devoted to the activities of the body, and houses the sports and water culture center. […]
Read MoreFrom The China Watch: Two renowned Chinese biologists recently called on the central government to ban the consumption of endangered wild animals by government officials. Xu Zhihong, the president of Peking University, and Pan Wenshi, a professor at the university, recommended that the government enact laws to prohibit officials from eating rare or endangered wildlife […]
Read MoreBlogger Zhao Mu posted an environmental cartoon from Shenzhen Special Zone Daily: Read Yongfeng Feng’s China’s Deforestation No Longer Driven Mainly By Poverty on the WorldWatch.org
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: Beijing has corrected over 6,500 traffic signs and will next target public toilets, museums and menus as it erases bad English translations before the 2008 Olympics, a city official said Wednesday. The host city is taking aim at sloppy and often hilarious translations that dot the city to avoid Olympic-sized embarrassment over menu […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Since China opened its doors in the late 1970s, foreign investment has kept flowing in. Thousands of foreign-invested companies are set up across the country each year. But are foreign enterprises making profits or losses in China?
Read MoreFrom AP via Examiner.com: China surpassed the United States as the world’s second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead. Export growth from China boomed 27 percent last year, outpacing all other major trading nations, […]
Read MoreShanghaiist reports on a recent expose in the Chinese media of illegal blood-selling in Guangdong Province: When you’ve got nothing left to sell, sell your blood. That’s how many people in China, most notably in Henan, got AIDS. But as long as there’s poverty, you can bet that there will be people willing to sell […]
Read MoreCaijing reports on the roadside vendor who was sentenced to death for killing a member of the “urban management team” (chengguan): Unlicensed sausage vendor Cui Yingjie was on his knees, begging Beijing street inspectors during a routine raid last August to let him keep his cooker-equipped tricycle cart. When they refused, Cui fatally stabbed an […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (photo: Wen at Japanese parliament, via AFP): Shortly after Mr. Wen’s arrival, he and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks and issued a statement that promised, in general, to increase cooperation in economic, energy, environmental and military matters. “Both countries support each other’s peaceful development, and will enhance political trust […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Over the last two weeks, Fang Yonggang (ÊñπÊ∞∏Âàö) has become a household name in China. He is not a star athlete, not a leading man in the latest Chinese blockbuster. But this obscure naval academy professor is, according to the wave of “public opinion” now boosting him high above the pack, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: To maintain equilibrium between the different components of the Chinese world and to ensure that one-fifth of mankind lives in decent material conditions are the two main tasks of China’s leadership. These are also two major contributions to global stability. As China opens to the global village, one believes – and often […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: In the 1990s, many in China considered Volkswagens high class. But today, well-to-do Chinese are hankering for Bentleys, Ferraris, Mercedes, Audis, deluxe Cadillacs and even Rolls-Royces, reflecting the nation’s growing wealth — and a new boldness about showing it off. Luxury cars entered the Chinese market more than a decade […]
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