The latest issue of Caijing magazine came out on Friday this week. It was supposed to hit newstands on Monday. Why the hold-up? Authorities ordered Caijing’s publishers to shelve two stories just as it was about to go to print, according to a report in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei.org: China’s entertainment media was abuzz last week with the news that CCTV’s children’s channel had halted its broadcast at episode 89 of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit (ËôπÁå´ËìùÂÖî‰∏ɉ憉º†) cartoon series. Rumors said that the show was pulled by the authorities for its gratuitous violence and suggestive language – a CCTV staffer disclosed […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: A local consulting company is offering free host family services to foreigners, allowing them to live with local families without paying any rent but by teaching them English… In western countries, host families have become a popular accommodation choice for overseas students who are taking short-term study trips…Host Chinese families should have […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: BEIJING, March 8 ” China’s national legislature began deliberating Thursday on a landmark law that would provide legal protections for private property as well as a law that would gradually equalize corporate taxes on foreign and domestic corporations. The two pieces of legislation are a result of years of debate […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: A landmark proposal to protect private property was formally introduced into China’s legislature amid continuing controversy, and in one possible sign of the legislation’s sensitivity, the latest issue of an influential Chinese business magazine that covered it was pulled earlier this week. It wasn’t immediately clear who blocked the issue […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadialogue: Hong Kong’s worsening air quality has become an increasingly hot topic in the global press…Recent polls show that air quality is a top concern among city residents; and last year Merill Lynch, the investment bank, warned that air quality in Hong Kong is now so poor that the city’s long-term competitiveness is under […]
Read MoreRumors have come out from the NPC and the CPPCC that people from China’s minority parties will be promoted to ministers in Wen Jianbao’s administration, reports the Asia Weekly. According to the official data, there are over 30 provincial level officials who are not from the Communist Party, said the Chinese magazine, which is based […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish via Xinhua: If you’re planning a trip to China next summer for the Olympic Games, you might want to stop by the ancient city of Kaifeng in Henan Province near Beijing, where you’re likely to see the city full of ancient Chinese. A Kaifeng resident nicknamed Wu Huang has made a proposal on […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: China is using Australia’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto agreement as diplomatic leverage as it faces increasing pressure to step up efforts to tackle climate change, Kevin Rudd has warned. Using a breakfast speech to The Global Foundation’s Australia Unlimited Roundtable to set out his vision for the future of Australia, the […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: In August 2000, the German Foundation Act established a fund to compensate tens of thousands of survivors of Nazi slave labour. The 5.1 billion Euro fund was financed jointly by the German government and companies which had been involved in the use of wartime slave labour, and by 2005, over 70,000 claims […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: For the farmers of Guanyun country, in Jiangsu province north of Shanghai, the pioneering property law that began its passage through China’s top lawmaking body this week holds little promise of salvation. Lu Zenghua, one of the farmers who claims his land was appropriated with no proper approval and little compensation for […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: In explaining the draft property law to lawmakers as well as the public, China’s top leader and some experts have been stressing the message that one aim of the law is to encourage Chinese people to create wealth. Mr. Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National […]
Read MoreFrom Peering Into the Interior blog: The following is a news article translated from Southern Metropolis Daily. This is about a building site in Chongqing that has brought about suspicion on the web forums in China. ÈíâÂ≠êÊà∑ Ôºù literally means “a slug house” but it means someone who refuses to move out from their house. […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Fu Qian, renamed Cecelia Nealon-Shapiro at 3 months, was one of the first Chinese children ” most of them girls ” taken in by American families after China opened its doors to international adoption in the early 1990s. Now, at 13, she is one of the first to complete the […]
Read MoreA craftsman making a candy at a temple fair in Beijing, via www.fengniao.com
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