From AP: China has defended new adoption regulations for foreigners that favor middle-aged married couples without physical handicaps, saying the rules were designed to help children and expedite adoptions. The revisions have drawn criticism from U.S. adoption agencies and their clients who say that they are discriminatory and overly restrictive. The United States is the […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A mini-baby boom last year has pushed up the number of pandas bred in captivity in China to 217, state media said Wednesday. Some 34 pandas were born by artificial insemination in 2006 and 30 survived — both record numbers for the endangered species, Cao Qingyao, a spokesman for the State Forestry Administration, […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Did you see this story from yesterday? Let the good times roll! Telecommunication operators and Internet users need to wait longer to get normal access as the authority said Tuesday the damage on undersea cables caused by earthquake last month is more serious than previous estimated. According to the latest estimation Tuesday by […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: After the peppered beef carpaccio and before the pan-fried sea bass there were raucous toasts and the clinking of wine glasses in the V.I.P. room of New Heights, a jazzy restaurant in this city’s most luxurious location, overlooking the Bund. Wang Guangyi, one of China’s pioneering contemporary artists, was there. […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor Twenty years ago, Mamat Atmotoyev’s refrigerator was made in Minsk and his samovar was likely to have come from the Russian city of Tula. But things have changed in his native Kyrgyzstan since the fall of the Soviet Union, and now the products that he uses every day are more […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: The police arrested three Christian church leaders in a raid on a gathering at a private home in northeastern China, a U.S.-based monitoring group reported Wednesday. About 30 police officers and officials from the local government’s Religious Affairs Bureau took part in the raid Dec. 29 on the home […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: The one-child policy combined with a large aging population means pensions are in danger of falling short. What’s the solution? Time is running out for China’s pension system. The one-child policy has created the 1-2-4 phenomenon within many of the country’s households – one child, two parents and four grandparents. With the […]
Read MorePotential bad news for China’s jolly population of urban food wasters, courtesy of global warming. Associated Press via Planetsave.com: Climate change will harm China’s ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, said a government report made public Wednesday. The report, issued by six government departments including the State […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via China Daily: China’s poverty line of 680 yuan (US$85) per capita net income a year is too low for subsistence and fails to spread the benefits of the country’s economic boom, a poverty relief official has said. China’s economy surged by 10.9 percent in the first half of 2006, the fastest rise […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via People’s Daily: A rundown of the major events in China shows 2007 will be extremely busy, productive and crucial for the country’s reforms and development. The year will feature the continued evolution of the government and the turning of a new page for the Communist Party of China. 17th National Congress of […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: On the outskirts of this provincial capital stands a massive sports complex, built by state-owned cigarette manufacturer Hongta Group. Outside, a grand frieze depicts a progression, from farmers harvesting tobacco to high-rise buildings and jet airplanes. The blunt message: Tobacco is responsible for bringing modernity to this poor corner of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Time: In the 1980s and most of the 1990s, almost all talented Chinese students wanted to study abroad. And those who were lucky enough to be able to study in advanced countries such as the United States or Japan would make every effort to remain there after graduation, reluctant to return to China. […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: A lawsuit that has been filed by one of China’s largest newspapers against one of the country’s leading Internet portals over the issue of massive copyright violations is being described here as the opening salvo in a media war. In the suit, which was filed in October and is expected to […]
Read MoreFrom Learning Cantonese Blog: A couple of weeks ago at one of the demonstrations against the Star Ferry demolition, I signed my name and cell phone number to a contact sheet that a student protester handed me on a clipboard. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve signed similar things thrust at me here […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai China Snippets: Positive solutions did a post on the things he missed when the Internet in China went back to the dark ages. A nice angle and I will blatantly copy his idea and spin it into telling you what I wish I had missed in this period. 1. Staring at my browser […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
