From Guardian: The football star Ronaldo is suing a Chinese medicine company which allegedly used a hastily shot photograph of him to advertise throat lozenges, reports said today. According to a series of Chinese papers, the Brazilian striker innocently posed holding a packet of Golden Throat Lozenges at a dinner in Beijing in September 2003 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is failing to make progress on improving and protecting the environment, according to a new Chinese government report. The research ranks China among the world’s worst nations – a position unchanged since 2004. After the US, China produces the most greenhouse gases in the world. The Chinese report, prepared by academics […]
Read MoreAn opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal: Just imagine what China would look like if its pragmatic, development-minded leaders had kept the Internet out. Mainlanders would not have been able to sign online petitions, read as many outside news reports, write blogs, and post their comments on “sensitive” topics. Foreign companies like Google, Yahoo […]
Read MoreFrom Boxun.com and Rednet: Numbers: – 10 billion yuan: the total amount of unpaid wages to migrant workers in mainland. – 72.2%: the percentage of unpaid wages by construction companies. – 6%: the percentage of migrant workers who can get paid monthly. Dec.5, 2006, Zhou Gongwen, a migrant worker wrapped up in a blanket, was […]
Read MoreYou don’t have to go to China to find a world where champions are legend, and dreams rise or fall with the bounce of a little ball, from the Washington Post: THE OPPONENT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NET, the one talking to his racquet at this moment, is a nobody in the sport, […]
Read MoreA handicapped man doing haircut for 34 years in a village in Shanxi province , via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreAnother corruption-fighting hurricane, or a ceremonial slogan chanting? Let’s see. From Reuters via China Daily (photo: red envelopes used by Chinese to hand out cash gifts during traditional Chinese New Year, etc.): “Holiday corruption has seriously hampered economic development and the building of harmonious society,” Xinhua news agency on Saturday quoted Xu Guangchun, secretary of […]
Read MoreFirst (American) football, now baseball. China is getting more magnetic, it seems, in everything. Yankees wants to establish a toehold in a potentially sports power too. From the New York Times: The Yankees consider themselves the most driven team in a competitive sport, so their push to boost baseball in China is not purely altruistic. […]
Read MoreNot to be suppressed, acclaimed journalist Wang Keqin has blogged unprinted portions of his probe into the death of reporter Lan Chengzhang. With the author’s permission, CDT’s Mo Ming translates them below. Lan died at the hands of illegal coal mine bosses whom reports indicate he was trying to blackmail. Wang’s missing passages, now posted […]
Read MoreChina rises, so does Chinese taste and yearning for upper-class lifestyle. Good news for wine dealers et al. From Washington Post (photo: celebration with Great Wall wine at the Great Wall, via travelwithachallenge.com): Cocooned in a wood-paneled, members-only bar on the 50th floor of a private business club, Yao Yi, a corporate lawyer in Beijing, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily and Wenxuecity: Migrant workers pack into the railway station to board a train in Fuyang, east China’s Anhui Province January 19, 2007. China’s ‘Chun Yun‘, which means travelling during traditional Chinese Spring Festival, kicked off half a month ahead of the official time between February 3 and March 14, which the Railway […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: More than $30m has been embezzled from funds allocated for residents displaced by China’s Three Gorges Dam project, state media has said. Chinese auditors said the money was misappropriated from funds allocated in 2004 and 2005, and warned the total figure could be even higher. Corrupt local officials have long been rumoured […]
Read MoreOpinion: Outlook for those looking to cash in on Chinese Internet growth is not particularly good, via InfoWorld: The semi-annual report from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) is almost always a cause for exuberance. There are millions more Internet users in China! Yippee! Hooray! Now if we could just sell one (or one […]
Read MoreFrom AP: It turns out Chinese couples are a lot happier than they seem… From this year, China will count the number of divorces per 1,000 people instead of counting the number of people who split per 1,000 population, the official China Daily newspaper said. The divorce rate for 2005 was 2.76, but according to […]
Read MoreFirst it was global warming, now it’s factory pollution. Three weeks after Xinhua reported that the country’s largest lake, Qinghai Hu, could evaporate from rising temperatures within two centuries, the central news agency has come out with a new report saying Dongting Lake (Ê¥ûÂ∫≠Êπñ), China’s second largest, is at serious risk of “environmental decay.” The […]
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