From Southern Weekend translated by ESWN: Perhaps many years later, this friend whom I have never met will invite me for a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon and then tell me at leisure about his reasons which were based upon instinct and conscience. This is a friend I really want to meet, but […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes: Li Ka-Shing is playing host on the top floor of his cheung kong Center tower in Hong Kong’s Central. It is where he often mixes business and pleasure, though rarely with a pair of reporters, his guests this day. Next door to the chairman’s dining room is a canopied swimming pool, complete with […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua News Agency: Liu Yu has felt like a “fish out of water” for the past few days. This 26-year-old clerk from Beijing is just one of millions of netizens coping with life without access to the MSN instant messaging service since the severing of undersea cables as a result of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: In the early hours of Saturday morning, it came fluttering down into the dry, grey city — Beijing is experiencing the first significant snow of the winter. The long overdue snow began to fall at around 2:40 a.m. and lasted into the afternoon. Traffic slowed and caused a number of road […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Guangzhou, China’s third largest city just a few hours north of Hong Kong, is the last major city to do away with motorbikes, effective January 1, 2007, in a move aimed at tackling pollution, traffic congestion and, more seriously, the high levels of street crime for which Guangzhou and a small […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: This year, one other word was always with us – “egao” (ÊÅ∂Êêû – spoof). Egao is a new word, but it not really anything new; it is just black humor. Calling black humor egao is like calling news reporting “hype” (ÁÇí‰Ωú). It is a spoof of those serious concepts and has the […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: New China Life Insurance Co.(Êñ∞Âçé‰∫∫ÂØø‰øùÈô©ÂÖ¨Âè∏), part- owned by Zurich Financial Services AG, said Chairman Guan Guoliang quit amid a regulatory probe of alleged misuse of funds. Guan left on Dec. 27 and his resignation was approved by the board, Li Qifu, spokesman of the Beijing-based company, said by phone today. Li declined to […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China Central Television’s sports channel will undergo a transformation from January 1 next year, becoming the major media window on preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. CCTV-5, the sports channel of CCTV, the state-run television network, will launch new programs devoted to the Beijing Olympics, Jiang Heping, director of the channel, said […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China’s top legislature named 43-year-old Sun Zhengcai(Â≠ôÊîøÊâçÔºâ, who has a PhD in agriculture, as the new agriculture minister(MOA) on Friday, making him the country’s youngest ministerial-level official. With a PhD in the China Agricultural University, Sun worked in the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science for four years. Sun also used […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via china.org.cn: China has experienced its warmest autumn for 55 years with its average temperature 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than normal, according to the Science Times. The temperature rise of 1.6 degrees Celsius has broken the record for temperature rises since 1951, said Zhang Qiang, assistant director-general of disaster relief with the China […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Nine priests of China’s unofficial underground Roman Catholic Church have been arrested in the northern province of Hebei, the Catholic press agency Asianews said. Asianews, a Rome-based agency with Vatican connections, said the arrested clergymen had met for studies in a community some 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of their diocese at Baoding. […]
Read MoreA woman from Nujiang Minority walking with bare feet in Yunnan province , via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: The streets of certain districts in Shanghai this time of year have an almost dreamlike quality to them. The dream in question would be that of a prosperous and happy China. Walk down Nanjing Road at lunchtime and you’ll be treated to sights of finely coiffed and impeccably dressed people, especially […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s highest court will begin to review, from January 1, every death sentence in the country under a change of law that seeks to end miscarriages of justice. But just a few day before the new regulation comes into force, a slew of death penalties were announced in the state media, giving rise […]
Read MoreFrom Weird Asia News: A man looks out of a cage in Liaocheng, East China’s Shandong Province on December 26. The man surnamed Li, 43, suffers from psychosis since about five years ago due to his family discordance. He broke furniture, houses or beat villagers as his illness outbroke. His relatives had to put him […]
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