From Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: Tuitions to China’s universities, which range from 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan (1,200 U.S. dollars) a year, are about 25 times higher than they were in 1989, according to the China Youth and Children Research Center (CYCRC). Annual incomes of urban residents have not nearly kept pace with tuition […]
Read MoreFrom Aljazeera News: China and Japan have agreed to step up efforts to improve relations after a long rift over territorial disputes and lingering animosity based on their wartime past. The move follows a trilateral summit meeting between the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean leaders on the sidelines of a wider Asian summit in the […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Guangzhou, the chaotic export capital in southern China, appeared to hit a major Chinese milestone this month, becoming the country’s first city to reach a per capita income of $10,000 ” more than five times the nationwide figure and a rough threshold for becoming a “developed” country. But in a […]
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Read MoreA second case since MSN deleted Anti’s blog. Now Baidu is in action. From Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin service and Li Xinde’s Yulun Jiandu Wang (ËàÜËÆ∫ÁõëÁù£ÁΩë), compiled and translated by CDT: Citizen journalist Li Xinde’s corruption-exposing web site was reportedly blocked by Fujian Province’s Xiamen public security authorities, who charged that there was “harmful information” […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: Tibet plans to start building a branch line for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway this year, which will link the region’s capital Lhasa with Xigaze (Êó•ÂñÄÂàô), a major Tibetan city some 280 kilometers to its southwest. Jin Shixun, director of the regional development and reform commission said Sunday that the new line […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The true believers come out in the freezing cold. Just before dawn, several hundred people gather behind a line of policemen in Tiananmen Square. They stamp their feet to keep warm. They’ve all come to watch the Chinese flag go up at sunrise – a ritual that began in the days of […]
Read MoreFacing the grave danger of the deadly bird flu, Hong Kong Buddhists have got a problem with their religious practice of releasing live chickens to Nature. From AP via Washington Post: When Hong Kong officials discovered that a scaly-breasted munia found dead on New Year’s Eve had tested positive for the H5 virus, they held […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Standing atop a stool clamped to a bicycle rack in her long white wedding gown, the giggling bride clasped her bouquet of white roses as the bridegroom pedaled frantically down Huayuan Road in Beijing’s Haidian District to the reception restaurant. “This is the way we like it. I’ll never regret this,” Fan […]
Read MoreNetizens in southern China have zhadui (Êâé†Ü) and jiaoban (Âè´Êùø) with local newspapers who huyou (ÂøΩÊdž) them with northern speak. Get it? Neither do they. In recent days, cyber-pundits in Guangdong province have ganged up (zhadui(r)) and picked a fight (jiaoban) with local papers who they say are jerking them around (huyou) with a preponderance […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: For more than 10 years, Wu Hong Fang’s days have been filled with the same gentle sound, the quick chafe of sandpaper on spruce and maple. Working briskly, methodically, her hands a dusty blur, she sands violins all day, six days a week. There is a rhythm to what she does, but […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Human rights conditions in China deteriorated last year even as China sought to portray itself as an increasingly open, modern society ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Friday. The government’s promise to establish an impartial legal system remains unfulfilled, while at least 100 […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has recorded double-digit growth for the fourth year in succession, according to the country’s top economic planner, amid rising tension between the push for continued fast development and the environment. Ma Kai, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the agency’s website on Friday that the economy had […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune China now has 200 flag-football programs with 1,500 college-age coaches poised to open more. Then the league embarked on the search for China’s first NFL player. As it turned out, the scouts...
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