Following Black Tuesday, some explanations, from Time Magazine: Chen Jing was one of the lucky ones. The 56-year-old retiree, who lives in Shanghai, dabbles a bit in local stocks, exchanging investment tips with what she calls her “mah jong friends,” a group that gets together each week to play and chat. Just before the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Beijing Times, via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT: It is learned from the Beijing Health Bureau that a “smile and quality service” campaign will be carried out among the city’s health care providers. One recommendation is that doctors proactively greet the patients before seeing them and say thanks after treating. According to health officials, […]
Read MoreActress Chen Xiaoxu became famous overnight after she played the role of Lindaiyu for the Deam of the Red Mansion in 1987. After that she couldn’t surpass her acting, then she quit her actress career and started to do business. Again she became very successful. But recently she gave up her normal life and million […]
Read MoreFrom Tim Johnson’s blog (photo from the blog): Camel caravans that once plied the Silk Road from the Middle East to Asia largely stopped traveling some 700 years ago, slowing an era of global trade between the two regions. Now the trade is back, and some experts have come up with the term the “New […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: It’s children like 10-year-old Xiao Wei, one of dozens of kids tearing around a dusty village schoolyard, who are being left behind by China’s economic boom as hidden costs, long distances to secondary schools and family needs mean a yawning gap in education opportunities for rural and urban children. After years of focus […]
Read MoreAnother hurricane coming? This time a family planning crack-down on the rich, possibly with a new “birth credit report.” From Josie Liu’s blog: A state government official said on Wednesday that celebrities would be barred from entering awards competitions if they break the one-child policy, several Beijing newspapers reported. A government inspection in four cities […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: …Chinese hospitals have been submerged in recent months under a tide of pregnant women; newborns are arriving in droves; and companies that manufacture diapers are upping their advertising budgets. The reason is simple: The Year of the Pig, which began Feb. 18, is a good year to be born… The government’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: A regulation mandating greater transparency in China’s government is moving forward in Beijing, but its contents are a secret. The regulation, eight years in the making, may do more to strengthen Beijing’s sway over its bureaucracy than to meet growing public demands for accountability in a country where information is […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Tens of millions of migrant workers who are helping to fuel China’s booming economy are being treated as an urban underclass, Amnesty International says. Despite some reforms, they are often denied rights to adequate health and education services and are vulnerable to exploitative working conditions. As many as 200 million people in […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s two fixed-line telephone operators have sealed a deal intended to limit competition and leave each in control of its core markets, according to a company official and local media. The deal between the parent companies of China Telecom and China Netcom highlights contradictions of interest inherent in the country’s state-controlled but […]
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: The shock wave set off by a plunge in Chinese stocks reflected intense foreign interest in the nation’s economic health, but it was jitters over Iran and a possible slowdown in the U.S. economy that turned the drop into a global rout, analysts said Wednesday. They expressed surprise that the 8.8 percent drop […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Yahoo News: When Huang Xu was a young soldier in an artillery unit on the Chinese coast in the late 1980s, war with Taiwan always seemed imminent. “We were on alert level one every day, and drilling for Taiwan (contingencies) all the time,” said the driver in the booming coastal city of […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune: One of Wall Street’s ugliest days in recent years actually started in Shanghai, where a massive sell-off in Chinese equities prompted a global market downturn exacerbated by fears of a slowing U.S. economy. Tuesday was a day of several notable calamities in the markets, among them the seventh-worst performances by the […]
Read MoreIn The New York Sun, Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, writes about James Mann’s new book: James Mann’s “The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression” (Viking, 127 pages, $19.95) is not a book about China. As he writes, it is about the China that he has encountered elsewhere. […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A senior official in Japan’s ruling party has warned that his country could become “just another Chinese province” within the next 20 years if Beijing’s military development continues at its current rapid rate. In a speech in Nagoya, Shoichi Nakagawa, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic party‘s policy research council, claimed Beijing […]
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