From Reuters, via CNN: Chinese teenagers are getting addicted to the Internet and taking to crime at a younger age than in any other country, state media reported on Wednesday. Of China’s 18.3 million teen Internet users, more than 2 million were addicts, with “good kids who impress their parents and teachers” the most vulnerable […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press, via Yahoo! News: Managers of China’s vast Forbidden City palace are deciding whether to close a Starbucks outlet on its grounds after protests led by a state TV personality, a news report said Thursday. The Forbidden City, built in 1420, is a 178-acre complex of villas, chapels and gardens that was home […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: …Feng, a Chinese citizen, is also an ethnic Mongolian, a people who eight centuries ago were united by Genghis Khan and forged an empire that stretched from Beijing to Poland… In November, police raided Dulaan’s shop and several others in Hohhot and seized Mongolian language books and CDs, under the pretext, she says, […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth: In Beijing, China there is a restaurant where customers are not allowed to use flashlights or glow-in-the-dark-accessories (I heard that!) inside. Besides the kitchen and bathroom area, thankfully, the whole restaurant is virtually pitch black. Yes, this is by design. And though I have recommended it to a couple of places in Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom Spot-On: Not to discount all the dizzying growth and change, but it’s often easy to view progress in China as sloppy sublation of the most basic problems. Old issues never die. They just get old. Take the regular “crackdowns” on corruption. They do little more than lend a wisp of legitimacy to a system […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: The Chinese government signaled a tougher line on military corruption Tuesday, but in characteristic fashion provided few details about how it intended to clean up one of the world’s most secretive armed forces. A new eight-point regulation “aims to strengthen supervision on auditing, maintain financial order, raise profits and boost the overall […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (photo: garbage treatment plant dumping waste water into a ditch, via Chinanews.com.cn): Lianjiao (ËÅîʪòÊùë) is already home to about 200,000 tons of waste plastic and 500,000 tons of waste paper and cardboard from both overseas and home. The quality of its air and water have declined because of pollutants unleashed by the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Shangba has become one of the country’s growing number of what have been called “cancer villages”. A broad river runs to the side of the village, its shallow waters rippling over smooth stones. What they did not know was that mines further upstream were dumping their waste into it. Scientist Chen Nengchang […]
Read MoreAdding a new dimension to the story of China’s for-profit participation in carbon credit trading, the Financial Times reports that Chinese factories and carbon traders are raking in tidy revenues by exploiting the high credit value of trifluoromethane (also called flouroform or HCF-23): The equipment, known as “scrubbers”, to reduce HFC gases is cheap to […]
Read MoreReuters cites an unnamed source “close to the country’s movie regulator” as saying Martin Scorsese’s new hit mob movie ‘The Departed‘ will not be shown in Chinese theaters. The reason? A plot line in which Chinese government agents attempt to purchase advanced weapons technology from Irish mobsters in Boston. The government apparently demanded the offending […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China is on the way to becoming a scientific superpower, thanks to the massive increase in its spending on research and the return of an increasing number of its scientists from abroad, a leading British think tank has said. The report by London-based Demos, The Atlas of Ideas: Mapping the New Geography […]
Read MoreMore on the murder of journalist Lan Chengzhang, who was reportedly beaten to death while reporting at an illegal coal mine. From the Guardian: Police said they were not treating Lan as a journalist because he had not worked long enough to be formerly accredited. Local officials speculated that he may have been simply posing […]
Read MoreFrom Popular Science blog: Getting into China’s network turned out to be easier than you might imagine. Wolfgarten simply bought a server at a Chinese ISP by phone. Once the server was set up, he could log into it from Germany. And all the data that went through the server would be subject to the […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Fans of online pranks in China have taken a break from parodying big-budget Chinese movies to focus on the Olympic emblem, triggering anger and criticism from game organizers. Internet users have transformed the emblem for the 2008 Beijing Olympic into signs for male and female public restrooms. The original emblem, dubbed “Dancing […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: In China, what promises to be a year rich in rumor has begun with a whopper: Vice President Zeng Qinghong will take over the presidency, one of three top posts currently held by Hu Jintao, the country’s No...
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