From Reuters, an update on AIDS activist Gao Yaojie, who has been held at her home to prevent her from traveling to the U.S. to receive an award: The U.S. Embassy in the Chinese capital has raised the issue with the Foreign Ministry, but ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said she knew nothing of Gao’s case. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, “Worse than we thought.” The headline in the British Guardian newspaper on Saturday was almost gloating about the bad news. The tone of the article that followed was no different: In Paris, a U.N.-sponsored panel, consisting of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, had just declared that average global […]
Read MoreTwo wire services emerged from China’s first official press conference on the recently released UN report on climate change with opposite views on how Beijing plans to grapple with carbon emissions from its belching coal plants. Under the headline “China is set on curbing fossil fuels,” Reuters quotes Qin Dahe, chief of the China Meteorological […]
Read MoreHere is an unusal list of Chinese officials who are involved in muder or suicide cases, via Yulun Jiandu (translated by CDT): Xu Fa (ÂæêÂèë), chief of Heilongjiang provincial procuratorate, jumped out of his 9th-floor apartment in 2006, died. He was earlier found to have been involved in an office-selling case and would have been […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has allowed access to Internet versions of two of Taiwan’s top daily newspapers after blocking them for years for fear they would spread anti-Communist propaganda, a Taiwan official said on Monday. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said that users in the populous Pearl River Delta and other parts of China over the past […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: Landing a well-paid job in a foreign company is something millions of China’s jobseekers dream of, but the findings of a recent survey may change their minds. Nearly 90 percent of Chinese staff in foreign companies suffer from work-related illnesses, according to a recent survey by the Horizon Research Consultancy […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei explores the life of the sexiest Chinese American woman ever to grace the silver screen: Anna May Wong (ȪÑÊü≥Èúú). Born to a Chinese laundryman’s family in 1905 in Los Angeles, she went on to become a Hollywood icon in a career that started in […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: If ever there was a believer in the power of the written word, it was a best- selling author and former librarian, Mao Zedong. As Mao explained to an early chronicler of his life, Edgar Snow, “Three books especially deeply carved my mind, and built up in me a faith in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Foreigners are to be limited to owning one house in Beijing, which they cannot rent out, press reports have said. Local newspapers report that foreign homebuyers will also have to prove that they have lived in China for a year. The Chinese government is trying to cool rising house prices and warned […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city’s parks, museums, subway stations and other public places searching for gaffes to fix. Already, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: When Pony Ma, the 35-year-old co-founder of China’s hottest Internet company, sends a message to friends and colleagues, the image that pops up on their screens shows a spiky-haired youth wearing flashy jeans and dark sunglasses. That is not how Mr. Ma actually looks or acts, but it is an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China must pursue democratic reforms to defuse economic and social imbalances threatening the country’s stability, a former editor of the People’s Daily said in a rare open call for political reform. Zhou Ruijin is a retired editor of the ruling Communist Party‘s mouthpiece who shot to fame in the early 1990s as a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Sheltered from the frantic sounds of a city desperate to modernize, Yang Fuxi sits serenely in his workshop in central Beijing, whittling a stick of bamboo into a hunter’s bow, just as his ancestors did 300 years before. But Yang has plied the trade for only eight years. He took it up only […]
Read MoreIn an essay in a state-run magazine, Luo Gan, China’s top law and order official, said an independent judiciary was not appropriate, via Age.Com: China’s security chief, a member of the ruling Politburo, has lashed out at “hostile forces” trying to use the legal system to undermine and westernise China… China’s court system has been […]
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