Reuters reports on new efforts by the Chinese government to include NGOs in their poverty relief efforts: What sets this pilot project apart is that it addresses the need for more nimble efforts to help the 21.5 million people living below the official absolute poverty line of 693 yuan ($90) a year, who are increasingly […]
Read MoreFrom Cool Hunting Blog: Huang Yan is a Chinese painter. One of his preferred mediums is the human body, upon which he often paints one of his favorite themes, landscapes, and often as performance art which is then photographed. The artist says that ‘landscape is an abode in which my mortal body can reside, landscape […]
Read MoreA woman shopping for pet food in a Beijing store, via theworldlink.com
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao goes to Japan on Wednesday promising a strategic pact, energy cooperation and maybe a crowd-pleasing baseball cameo as the two nations seek to narrow rifts over history and regional ambitions. Beijing has cast Wen’s three-day visit as an “ice-thawing” trip to ease bitterness left by then-Japanese prime minister Junichiro […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Jiang Jianguo was no James Bond. As a spy for Taiwan, he acknowledged, his biggest exploit was getting a map of the Shanghai port. But he did what he was told by his Taiwanese spymasters and spent 13 years in Shanghai’s Tilanqiao PrisonÔºà‰∏äʵ∑Â∏ÇÊèêËìùÊ°•ÁõëÁã±Ôºâ after Chinese counterespionage agents caught him in a […]
Read MoreFrom Youtube: Below is a video clip of Xiamen traffic at Bin Lang intersection, carried by Youtube:
Read MoreFrom Tim Johnson’s China Rises blog: With some regularity, I stumble across essays or reports on China with some detail or factoid that seems extraordinary – maybe even too extraordinary. On occasion, I will try to do a little research myself. If I can’t substantiate the “fact,” I file it away in a mental category […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org: A masterpiece by prominent Chinese artist Xu Beihong (ÂæêÊÇ≤È∏ø) was auctioned on Saturday at a record 72 million Hong Kong dollars (about US$9.2 million) for a Chinese oil painting. Sotheby’s had said the 1939 painting of an anti-Japanese street play, “Put Down Your Whip,” was expected to fetch at least 30 […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org: Zheng Xiaoyu ÔºàÈÉëÁ≠±Ëê∏Ôºâ, former director of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), who was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) last month, has been accused of taking bribes of more than 5 million yuan (about US$650,000). Zheng’s case, previously investigated by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Chow Yun-fat plays Sao Feng, a Chinese pirate, in the upcoming movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Looks sort of menacing, doesn’t he? Is such an image insulting to the Chinese people? On Friday, the International Herald Leader reported the results of an online survey in which 61% of respondents felt […]
Read MoreFrom China Herald blog: A debate is emerging on the internet whether Google has for its newly released pinyin input system stolen the vocabulary of its competitor Sogou. When the US search engine would have committed such a gross infringement of the intellectual property of a competitor, even though it would have been done by […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, the third in a series examining classical music and musicians from China: It is an extraordinary place to be for a young man who just a little more than a decade ago was playing his oboe in a practice room in Beijing. But Mr. Wang’s hiring was also a clarion […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese government delegation visited refugee camps and met officials in western Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur province to “get acquainted” with the situation there, state media reported on Sunday… China, which buys much of Sudan’s oil and wields veto power over U.N. resolutions, is facing rising criticism from Western governments and rights campaigners for […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily: China will formally ban the trade in human organs from May 1, state media reported. The regulation, issued by the State Council, or China’s cabinet, does not apply to transplants of human tissue such as cells, corneas or bone marrow, the Xinhua news agency reported on Friday… China in July last […]
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