From smh.com.au: THE ticking time bomb that is the Chinese population has been underlined by a report describing the huge challenges its sheer numbers – 1.3 billion and rising – will present to the country over the next 30 years. Despite almost three decades of the one-child policy, the population will reach 1.5 billion by […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: How much does it cost to get a job? If you ask this question to today’s university graduates in China, the answer may differ from several hundreds of yuan to tens of thousand yuan (1 U.S. dollars is presently worth about 7.80 Chinese yuan). As millions of degree holders […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: There’s been quite a bit said about how bad Zhang Yimou‘s latest film is: how Curse of the Golden Flower is all empty spectacle, how its skimpy costumes and blood-soaked finale amount to commercialized garbage, and how its social commentary is superficial and essentially irrelevant…. Seven layers of Curse of the Golden […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: China’s breakneck growth took its worst ever toll on the environment last year, the state media said today quoting a report that revealed serious pollution spills are occurring almost every other day. Although the government has made cleaner economic development a priority, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said the country had […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: In China a man who received thousands of text messages when his mobile phone number was accidentally used in a TV series has been awarded compensation. Chen Bing’s number had been read out slowly on a television series so another character could write it down. His phone’s inbox was then flooded with thousands […]
Read MoreA boy flies a kite in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, by captainava
Read MoreFrom AP: China has cut the price of domestic gasoline by about 4 percent and jet fuel by around 2 percent in response to a decline in world. China’s main planning agency, the State Development and Reform Commission(ÂõΩÂÆ∂ÂèëÊîπÂßîÔºâ, said in a statement on its Web site Sunday that the price cuts were effective immediately… However […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The execution of Saddam Hussein, however, has stirred feelings in this part of the world as nothing else has since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. East Asians have no particular brief for Saddam. He was not a great friend of any government in this region, and his passage here […]
Read MoreForeign Policy Magazine article uses the shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards as an example of the so-called “YouTube effect”: A video shows a single line of people slowly trudging up a snow-covered footpath. A shot is heard; the first person in line falls. A voice-over says, “They are shooting them like dogs.” […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Shanghaiist: …A Shanghai tea house whose name translates roughly as “Frog Keeps a Mistress” has been deemed a threat to public morality and told to get a new moniker, local media said Friday. The “Qingwa Bao ErnaiÔºàÈùíËõôÂåÖ‰∫å•∂Ժ┠shop was violating China’s advertising law, the Shanghai Daily and other newspapers said, citing a […]
Read MoreFrom The China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Hong Kong journalists who tried to visit an area where a military plane reportedly crashed in southern China were expelled by shouting soldiers dressed in camouflage, a news report said yesterday. The military plane exploded while airborne on Tuesday, the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Syphilis, virtually eradicated in China under Mao Zedong, has become a viciously-growing epidemic there, driven by prostitution, internal migration and poor health controls, a new study warns… In 2005, it had surged to 5.7 cases per 100,000, a figure that may well be a serious under-estimate, according to the paper by Chinese epidemiologists. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) will crack down on vulgar reality shows in 2007, said Wang TaihuaÔºàÁé㧙ÂçéÔºåÂéüÂÆâÂæΩÁúÅÂßî‰π¶ËÆ∞Ôºâ, general director of the SARFT on Friday… The move is part of the efforts to “clean up TV screens,” said Wang at an annual work conference attended by heads of provincial bureaus […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday that would have demanded Myanmar’s military regime end political repression and human rights violations, insisting that the Southeast Asian nation’s internal matters don’t pose a threat to international peace and security. The U.N. measure underlined the need “to minimize the risks to peace […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via The International Herald Tribune: Amid official silence over the graft case against Shanghai’s disgraced Communist Party chief, unlicensed tomes are stepping into the void with what they claim is the inside scoop on his downfall. Sold by sidewalk vendors or under-the-counter at legitimate bookstores, the paperbacks, with lurid, glossy covers […]
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