From AP: President Hu Jintao has vowed to tighten a crackdown on rampant corruption amid the growing number of arrests of top Communist Party officials and senior judges across China for graft and other misdeeds… The government faces an “arduous fight against corruption,” Hu said in comments carried Wednesday on the front pages of major […]
Read MoreFrom Wenxuecity.com: It is people’s daily life that shows the development of the society and improvement of the economy. It is home that shows the owner’s economical status, social position, and cultural taste. The following photos of Shanghai homes were taken to illustrate different people’s life style. It includes billionaire, middle class, common people and […]
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Read MoreSeems turning down the night lights on the Bund may not have done as much to reduce China’s energy consumption as thought. Via China Environmental News Digest: China last year missed its goals of making a 4 percent cut in the amount of energy it uses to generate each dollar of national income and of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: High school students in Beijing are far more promiscuous than their teachers or parents think, according to a survey conducted in a city district. More than half of those polled said there was nothing wrong with a one-night stand; and 6.2 percent admitted they already had a sexual encounter, according to the […]
Read MoreIn the South China Morning Post, Frank Ching opines about the recent loosening of regulations for foreign media in China: Liberalised mainland regulations on foreign media came into effect on January 1 and already the difference can be seen. Foreign journalists no longer require approval to move around the country or conduct interviews. They need […]
Read MoreIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is visiting China. BBC reports: Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has said he has received candid reassurance from China that the country opposes any plans by Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Mr Olmert, in China as part of a three-day visit, met his Chinese counterpart Wen Jibao. Speaking after the discussions, […]
Read MoreFrom AP: An exiled Chinese Muslim activist living in the U.S. urged China on Wednesday to allow an independent probe of an anti-terror raid that officials say killed 18 militants. China said 18 terror suspects were killed and 17 arrested during the raid at an alleged training camp run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, […]
Read MoreWu Si (Âê¥ÊÄù) is the author of several influential books, including “Hidden Rules” (ÊΩúËßÑÂàô)Ôºå about Chinese history and politics. Born in 1957, Mr. Wu graduated from the People’s University in Beijing and...
Read MoreFrom Danwei Blog: Here’s a story that combines the one-child policy debate with the current controversy over the value of traditional Chinese medicine in modern society. Four Chinese medical clinics have won a lawsuit brought against them by a patient who accused them of misdiagnosing her pregnancy. According to Beijing Times, in March, 2004, 44-year-old […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist Blog: Just recently, we came across a report from December 2006 about the lives of seven individuals, each making 1,000 yuan (US$128) per month, living in seven different Chinese cities. The cities included Beijing, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Changchun, etc., as well as our own city of Shanghai. The following is our translation of the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Washington Post: United Airlines won tentative approval on Tuesday to operate the first nonstop daily flight between Washington and Beijing, a 14-hour trip that links the countries’ capitals as their economies become more intertwined. The Department of Transportation’s final OK would give UAL Corp.’s United a route coveted by executives and […]
Read MoreEnvironmentalist and journalist Yongcheng Wang wrote the following column for Chinadialogue: The baiji, one of the world’s four species of freshwater dolphins, left the oceans 20 million years ago and settled in the middle and lower reaches of China’s Yangtze River. The baiji has existed for around 25 million years, far longer than the famed […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese leader Hu Jintao has been urged to cede the presidency to a rival-turned-ally, sources said, a step that would sweep aside two decades of established practice and let him focus on extending Communist Party power. Political allies of Vice President Zeng Qinghong have urged that he be promoted to state president at […]
Read MoreThe story of the Sept 30th shootings on Mt. Everest is now a song: High on the slopes of Mt. Everest September 30th Trekking Tibetan pilgrims walked single file up a high mountain pass trail On their way to see the Dalai Lama “His Holiness” to them
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