From South Asia News Bulletin: China’s first “mermaid baby” died of heart failure at a hospital in central China’s Hunan Province after doctors failed to save the abandoned boy, till date there has been only two known cases in the world of children who survived the affliction. The baby was abandoned in front of the […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei Blog: Gao Qinrong is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for eight years on trumped up charges after he reported on an abuse of power in Shanxi: a Potemkin irrigation project that did not irrigate anything but allowed local officials to impress visitors and embezzle money. Both the Southern Metropolis Daily and Southern […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: The wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau (Atasu, Kazakhstan) reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China’s first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe, is a milestone for the world’s newest empire–one forged not in the name of destiny or God, but in pursuit of the planet’s […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Business Week: Chinese authorities have found seven big underground banks involved in money laundering cases worth more than 14 billion yuan (US$1.75 billion;euro1.3 billion), the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Police arrested 44 people suspected of involvement in the undergound banks, found in Shanghai, Guangdong, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Heilongjiang, Xinhua […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The Age: A Chinese court has jailed a prominent sociologist for 20 years for leaking state secrets, a sentence that rights groups say is a blow to academic freedom. Lu Jianhua, 46, a sociologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank, was convicted by the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At 5:45 in the morning the cabbage line outside the Old Drum Tower Outer Street New People’s Produce Market is nearly two hours old. First in line is a 72-year-old woman named Mrs. Wang, who awoke at 3, arrived at 4 and would wait until 8:30 for a single head […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Express: India and China, which have been growing rapidly in a relatively favourable external environment so far, have to come to terms with some critical problems in their financial systems, say experts. But with the world economy likely to slow down, China may face a potentially large number of new defaults on non-performing […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, having taken gold at the recent Asian Games minus Yao Ming, is likely to miss the NBA champion’s services in Olympic warm-up matches against European power sides in 2007, local media reported on Monday. Excused from national duties at Doha, the 7ft 6in Houston Rockets center has enjoyed a stellar start to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: When Zhang Feifei lost her job in this booming Chinese factory town, she was not terribly concerned. Jobs had always been plentiful in Shenzhen’s flourishing economy. …Few cities anywhere have created wealth faster than Shenzhen, but the costs of its phenomenal success stare out from every corner: environmental destruction, soaring […]
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Read MoreFrom CRI via China.org: Zhuazhou(ÊäìÂë®) is regarded as one of the most important customs on a child’s first birthday. When a family has a child, the family members want to know what the child will be when he or she grows up. Parents place an assortment of articles in front of their child to choose […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Chinese leaders agree in principle to visit Japan next year, said State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing yesterday. Japan’s former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi repeatedly visited the Yasukumi war shrine during his five-year post since April 2001, which aroused immense criticism from China, South Korea and some other Asian countries or regions. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: Official figures from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) show that China will fail to meet its target of reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by four percent this year. China has set a unit energy consumption reduction target of 20 percent for the five-year period from 2006 to […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: It is hardly a surprise that the large American economic delegation to China has returned with little to show. Even at the final press conference, while the US treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, said China would make its currency more flexible but gave no timetable; the Chinese deputy prime minister, Wu Yi, did […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News: China, the largest source of overseas children adopted in the U.S., plans to bar would-be parents who are obese, single or over 50, according to notices posted on the Web sites of three leading U.S. adoption agencies. Under rules effective from May 1, applicants must be married for more than two years […]
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