Earthquake prediction with Chinese characteristics, via Topix.net: China has come up with an earthquake prediction system which relies on the behavior of snakes, state media said on Thursday, two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi autonomous region in southern China, had developed its system […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg Google Inc., owner of the world’s most-used Internet search engine, will invest in Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd., a Chinese Web site that helps users download videos from the Internet. The investment will probably be disclosed next month, Henry Wang, head of Xunlei’s operations in Shanghai, said today by telephone. He declined to […]
Read MoreFrom Tianya, translated by ESWN: According to the spirit of the instructions from Comrades Chongming and Chunzhong, the domestic section, international section, external section and news research institute of the general editorial room have collected and organized the banned terms that the various editorial departments have been using in recent years. The first group of […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe via IHT: Officials here say that the mammoth Three Gorges Dam Project along the historic Yangtze River will control deadly flooding, provide electricity to millions of people and create vital inland navigation along a 640-kilometer-long reservoir. But behind the project’s promise and grandeur ” the $30 billion endeavor is widely billed […]
Read MoreFrom RFA via Speronews: Veteran Tiananmen pro-democracy activist Chen Ziming has vowed to continue working in “constructive opposition” to China’s ruling Communist Party. In his first in-depth interview with a Chinese-language media outlet, Chen told RFA’s Mandarin service that there was still plenty for him to do, despite the closure by authorities of a groundbreaking […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: After four years of renovations that closed two-thirds of the building, the museum housing the world’s most famous collection of Chinese art is reopening this winter and holding a three-month exhibition of its rarest works. The National Palace Museum, home to the best of the 1,000-year-old art collection of China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Time.com: Liang Yumin killed himself, after village-level bureaucrats made his life hell. His offense? Being democratically elected to replace them What I remember most about the four farmers who showed up at TIME’s Beijing bureau back in 2001 was the new shirts they wore. These men were trying their best to blend in to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s economy will probably record its fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth in 2007, the statistics bureau’s chief economist forecast on Thursday, playing down expectations of a slowdown by some economists. Yao Jingyuan, chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics, said gross domestic product growth was expected to dip only modestly next […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s pledge to relax rules for foreign reporters covering the 2008 Olympics may extend beyond the games, a top media official has hinted. Cai Wu said he saw no need to change the policy back if the new regulations proved “beneficial”. His comments come a week before the new rules – announced […]
Read MoreA farmer carrying a chunk of pork to a market in Shuozhou of Shanxi province via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Programs to eliminate non-tradable shares are part of what brought retail investors back to the mainland bourses. The Shanghai index is up 122% About the time that executives at HSBC Holdings in Britain were opening their Christmas stockings on Dec. 25, markets in Shanghai were closing”with shares in ICBC, or Industrial & […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Beijing is to invest heavily in public transport ahead of the 2008 Olympics in a bid to cut pollution, officials say. The road network is to be improved and the subway system extended, a spokesman for Beijing’s transport body said. City authorities also plan to issue new bus and rail passes, with […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish: Golden Lion-winning Chinese director Jia Zhangke is considering defamation proceedings against film producer Zhang Weiping’s over allegations that his Venice Film Festival award was fixed. „ÄÄ„ÄÄ In an open letter to Zhang, director Zhang Yimou’s long-time producer, who also produced the box office hit “Curse of the Golden Flower“, Jia responded to Zhang’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country’s food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption. A forthcoming official assessment of the effects of global climate change on China will warn of worsening drought in northern China and […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Robert L. Pitman has spent 30 years studying the world’s whales, dolphins and other aquatic mammals. He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking […]
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