From the Washington Post: Divorce, once nearly unheard of in China, has become more common than ever as women such as Wu gain financial independence and shrug off the diminishing stigma of leaving their husbands. Legal barriers to divorce have fallen away — couples needed permission from their employers until just four years ago — […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on a new highway network that will reconnect countries along the old Silk Road: China is at the heart of the network. In addition to existing roads, it is building more than 10,000 miles of new highways. The push into central Asia is making some of the world’s most remote regions more […]
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Read MoreFrom Reading China blog: The Tale of the White Serpent, a household story in China, is set in Dongting Lake. The beautiful romance of the lovers of Bai Shuzhen and Louyi is gone with this seriously polluted lake. Hunan provincial government ordered all paper mills in the area of Dongting Lake, the second largest fresh-water […]
Read MoreWu Ping and Yang Wu gained international celebrity for their refusal to move out of their house to make room for a shopping mall. Their face-off lasted three years but it has now come to an end. They previously demanded a house the same size, height and exposure as theirs as well as 625-thousand dollars. […]
Read MoreFrom Science Magazine: “When I left China to study abroad, I thought I had left China for good,” says neuroscientist Shigang He. Yet, after earning his Ph.D. and landing a permanent research position in Australia, He started having second thoughts. A visit to a Chinese institute astounded him. Labs were bulging with new equipment and […]
Read MoreFrom Weird Asia News: “An online game operator has demanded that banned players donate blood to be allowed back into the game. Moliyo, which runs a 3D massively multiplayer online game in China, made the demand after banning 120,000 players who attempted to hack the game. More than 100 players had already signed up to […]
Read MoreCCTV recently reported that an unnamed hawker in Guangzhou City cried on the street after his goods and equipment were confiscated by the urban administrators. This event alone won’t cause much sensation. But it happened after the Property Law was passed at this year’s NPC meeting. People are asking whether the confiscation is in conflict […]
Read MoreOn Mar. 22’s Xiao Xiang Morning Post (潇湘晨报), Lian Yue (连岳), an active blogger and a freelance writer, published a column on a dangerous chemical project in South-Eastern China’s Xiamen City, Fujian Province. In the...
Read MoreFrom China.org: A grand ritual, the largest since 1949, was held in China’s Shaanxi Province yesterday to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, believed by many to be the ancestor of modern Chinese people. …The Yellow Emperor, known as Huang Di (ȪÑÂ∏ù), who lived more than 4,000 years ago, is believed to be a great sovereign and […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: With less than 500 days away to the Beijing Olympic Games, the discussion over what the Chinese delegation should wear on the Games ceremonies has already been in full swing. The focus is Han costume – to wear or not wear. A joint proposal was posted on Thursday by some websites relating […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: March 8, or ‘san ba’ (‰∏âÂÖ´) in Chinese is International Women’s Day, a holiday that is traditionally celebrated with much official support in China. But ‘san ba’ is also a rather insulting way to refer to a woman. In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei finds out why the country that […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via PlanetArk.org (Beijing officials testing towels at a small commodities market, via thebeijingnews.com): Provincial officials in northern China have closed nine factories and seized about 1 million towels that had been dyed using banned toxic chemicals, local media reported on Wednesday. Authorities in Hebei province had confiscated 40 tonnes of industrial dye following […]
Read MorePage One from the Wall Street Journal (Photo: Avraham Abelson testified in the Israeli parliarment about organ transplants in China, via wsj.com): A year ago, Avraham Abelson was No. 127 on Israel’s waiting list for a heart transplant. Doctors told the 65-year-old retired diamond dealer he’d probably die years before his number came up. So […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via China Daily: The Canadian official who approved Lai’s removal order failed to properly consider Lai’s claim that he would be tortured, a Federal Court judge ruled… The slow pace of Lai’s deportation case — which has gone on for seven years — has become a thorn in Chinese-Canadian relations even though Ottawa […]
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