From Danwei blog: You’re playing with the Google English-Chinese translation beta, and like any curious individual, you start trying out some dirty language. So you enter “I thought this was fucking shit” and out comes “ÊàëËƧ‰∏∫ËøôÊò؉∏≠ÂõΩËøêÂä®ÂëòÊãâÂ±é” (I think this is Chinese athlete shit.) Hmmm. Then there’s “i thought this was shame” which ends up “ÊàëËƧ‰∏∫ËøôÊò؉∏≠ÂõΩÁöÑËĪËæ±” […]
Read MoreFrom Granite Studio Blog: What happens when the forces of global capitalism and cultural imperialism come robed in red and wearing a white beard? A group of graduate researchers from China’s major universities are calling on their fellow Chinese to boycott Christmas. Citing the increasing popularity of the holiday among the younger generation, protest organizer […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Zimbabwe is preparing to open talks with China for a $2bn (¬£1.1bn) loan, in a bid to boost its crumbling economy. Much of the money would be used to fight Zimbabwe’s soaring inflation, the state-run Herald newspaper reported. China has been looking to extend its influence in Africa and recently hosted a […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Eight Chinese Christians are going on trial in the eastern city of Hangzhou charged with instigating violence and interfering with the law. There were violent clashes when riot police moved in to demolish a church being built without official approval. All churches must be registered and sanctioned by the state but millions […]
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Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Tian Deren is only 58, but poor eyesight means he must be helped across the street. He also has diabetes and is hard of hearing, so earlier this year a son-in-law brought him to a privately run home for the elderly. …But like many of China’s graying citizens, Tian understands that […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Yahoo China has won a lawsuit it brought against a local search engine operator over unfair competition, Yahoo China’s owner, Alibaba.com, said on Thursday. Beijing’s Second Intermediate Court ruled that Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology, operator of the Qihoo search engine, must stop competing unfairly and compensate Yahoo China for damages and legal costs, […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via People’s Daily Online: The Hong Kong stock market has experienced bull run since the beginning of this year, and on Wednesday, the total market capitalization hit an all-time high of 12,729.7 billion HK dollars (1638.9 billion U.S. dollars). The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited said in a statement Wednesday that the […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: The eBay decision to close its Web site in China and instead take a 49 percent stake in an electronic-commerce joint venture with TOM Online is the latest sign that local knowledge and connections matter in the Chinese market. While TOM Online has suffered a series of commercial setbacks during the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, Police in central China have scotched a wine maker’s plans for a mass Christmas Eve “nude run” which the company said was a public interest event to discourage the use of “excessive packaging” in the industry. Jixiang Ruyi Tobacco and Alcohol Company offered 284 people 10,000 yuan ($1,280) in cash and prizes to […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish: Shanghai‘s suburban Jinshan District, known as “Chinese Picassos,” are famous for their paintings of colorful scenes of country life, and the government is schooling them and setting up a website so they can turn out art to order. In the old Zhonghong Village of suburban Jinshan District, away from the hustle and bustle […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: As Christmas draws near, ten philosophy and education PhD students from China’s top universities jointly publicized a petition on the Internet, calling on netizens, especially the young, to be less excited about the exotic holiday, Shanghai-based Xmnext.com reported December 21, 2006. This is the latest instance of public resistance to western culture […]
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth: According to Seattle Times Writer staff writer Maureen O’Hagan, China is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, older than 50 or who take antidepressants. The education folks are also pushing to limit the age and qualifications of foreign experts headed for the Middle Kingdom. No longer will […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: One afternoon in mid-November, hundreds of farmers surrounded a government building in Dongzhou, a tiny Chinese fishing village northeast of Hong Kong. They were protesting corruption among local officials — one of thousands of such protests across China each year. But according to the government and multiple accounts from villagers, […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew spoke with Time magazine reporters TIME: The coming East Asia summit is an unprecedented gathering of Asia’s leaders. Do you see it as an epochal moment for the region? LEE: It happened in an unplanned, almost accidental, way. Abdullah Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, offered […]
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