From Xinhua via the People’s Daily: “The ratio of caesarean section births in China has soared to 50 percent, far exceeding the standard of 15 percent set by the World Health Organization, medical experts say. It is widely believed that one of the reasons for the sharp rise is that doctors recommend C-section delivery to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: MY friend was visibly shaken. He had just learned that he had lost one of his clients to Chinese competitors. “It’s amazing,” he told me. “The Chinese have completely priced us out of the market. We can’t compete with what they’re able to offer.” There’s nothing surprising about that, of […]
Read MoreThe Telegraph reports on one group who does not share recent alarm over global warming: While much of the world worries about the impact of climate change, for these hardy Himalayan shepherds, battling the elements in the world’s highest mountains, a gentler climate can only be good news. “Yes, it’s definitely getting warmer,” said Tsawang […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The 2008 Summer Olympics isn’t the only thing looming on Beijing’s horizon. There’s also a lot of pollution from neighbors clouding the city’s air. Even if the city does all that it can, Beijing officials have recently acknowledged that without the cooperation of nearby provinces such as Shanxi, Shandong, Inner […]
Read MoreNewsweek explains how China’s space race and the country’s dire need for energy are connected: Eventually Beijing wants to put people on the moon, although the target date remains undisclosed. “Their timetable...
Read MoreDr. Gao Yaojie, the 80-year-old veteran AIDS fighter and national hero, was recently barred by the local government from going to Beijing to get her US visa to receive an award from US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In the last part of this video series, Gao’s outspokenness has irked some health officials, for […]
Read MoreA Uighur man sells products of indeterminant type in Qinghai Province. Photo by Tom Carter.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: An aged AIDS activist in central China said she remained under house arrest on Thursday despite abandoning plans to travel to the United States to collect a prize, but she vowed to keep exposing the spread of the disease. Gao Yaojie helped bring to light the spread of AIDS in her home province […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: At a dusty border crossing on a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world’s most resource-ravenous economy. Trucks ferrying every commodity imaginable — rice, rubber, tapioca, coffee, coal and bauxite — stream across the border into the world’s fourth-largest economy. […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Li Yinhe, a noted sexologist and professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), who is expected to propose for a fourth time that gay marriage be legalized in China at this year’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of which she is a member, just wrote in her personal blog […]
Read MoreFrom AP. via CNN: Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country’s ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai. Slightly sweet and purple in color, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Chinese government has publicly praised the contribution of private entrepreneurs, small-business owners and managerial-level staff in private or foreign-funded enterprises to the country’s economic development. It considers 50 million such professionals as members of a “new social stratum”, who possess or manage capital totaling 10 trillion yuan (about US$1.3 trillion). “This ‘new […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Villagers in southwestern China are puzzled by a county government’s decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green. Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain in August told villagers that they were doing so on orders of the county government but were not told why, media reports said Wednesday. Some […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: For as long as he can remember, Du Jianhua’s dream has been to find a way to contribute to his society. Starting small, the glass cutter began by cleaning up litter around this town (Lushan). Later, he began tracking the way garbage was dumped into the Nansha River, fouling the waterway […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: In the wake of the latest breakthrough in the long-running negotiations to end North Korea’s rogue nuclear programme China has again won plaudits for muscling its recalcitrant neighbour to the table and brokering a deal. “China has done a great job of getting us together,” Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator, […]
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