From BBC News: Tuya’s Marriage, a Chinese film about a woman and her life in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, has won the Berlin Film festival‘s top honour, the Golden Bear. Accepting the award, director Wang Quan’an said he could not imagine a better gift for Chinese New Year. Joseph Cedar won best director for […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Shanghai Morning Post reported earlier this week that an office worker in Shanghai resigned from her job so that she could return home for the Spring Festival. In an op-ed for the Mirror, Tang Ziwen, a program host with China Radio, writes about the choice workers face when they find themselves far from […]
Read MoreA security guard walks in front of a gigantic pig at a Beijing market. Photo by WininChina.
Read MoreFrom Federal Computer Week: “At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks, Netwarcom officials said. Attacks coming from China, probably with government support, far outstrip other […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: The whole country has been getting ready to celebrate People across China are celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year – China’s most important festival which is seen as particularly auspicious this year. The year of the pig is supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. But this time it is a […]
Read MoreFrom San Francisco Chronicle: China’s debut on the global diplomatic stage bore fruit this week with the deal it helped bring about to get North Korea to curb its nuclear program. Yet Beijing’s job has just begun. “China has an enormous investment in this process succeeding, even more so now that there has been an […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Mutual economic ties have grown during years of tense relations, so leaders decide to put on a better face. Anyone seeking signs that China and Japan are working hard to get their fraught relations back on track should consider this: After a four-year ban, the Chinese have agreed to resume […]
Read MoreFrom The Age.com.au: THE world faces a global warming disaster if the US and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading economists said at the United Nations yesterday. Jeffrey Sachs, speaking with British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, said the commitment of the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases to make […]
Read MoreChina analyst David Cowhig wrote: I found online the picture of the Henan Vice Governor visiting Dr. Gao on February 12th to convey the solicitude of the Party and Government on the occasion of the Spring Festival that appeared in the Henan Ribao. The link to the article is at here. An interesting expression on […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: The entertainment edition of Southern Metropolis Weekly devotes one page each issue to excerpts from blogs. It frequently republishes entries by a blogger called “boya,” who posts using a keyword framework. In this week’s issue, SMW picked out two keywords – “foreigners” and “private life” – from a blog post that boya […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: China gave in to international pressure on Friday and agreed to release a prominent AIDS doctor from house arrest so she can attend an awards ceremony in Washington next month. “We’re just really...
Read MoreIn the land of Mao, getting rich is finally glorious. It’s also complicated. Via the Washington Post: A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, SHI XIAOYAN SOLD 17 OF HER 20 CARS. That left her with just the Porsches — a Boxster and the 911 Turbo — in the garage downstairs. Shi, who also goes by Celia, […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via China Daily: Sunday marks the start of the Chinese New Year and it’s a lucky one for those starting out in life. But the rest of us are in for a rough ride. Expect epidemics, disasters and violence in much of the world… Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of trying […]
Read MoreBusiness Week reports on growing public concern in China over the widening wealth gap: The inequality problem is only getting worse. The top 10% of urban Chinese earn 9.2 times as much as the bottom tenth, up from 8.9 times the previous year. In rural China, the multiple was 7.3, compared with 6.9 one year […]
Read MoreSome sexy numbers for major railway-sector multinationals: China will add 10,540 miles of new track and decicate 4,340 of those solely to high-speed passenger trains, and by 2020 the country will have a track network of 62,000 miles. Via the Wall Street Journal (photo via Chinesenews.net): For General Electric Co., Siemens AG and other makers […]
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