From Reuters, an article about how increasing wealth and a changing lifestyle in China is leading to high levels of obesity: Newly rich China, where the wealth gap is expanding year by year, has more than double as many obese people as it has people living in abject poverty, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Opposition attempts to recall Taiwan’s president Chen Shui-bian from office in the wake of an alleged corruption scandal faced a fresh hurdle on Monday after a key party dramatically switched its support back to Mr Chen. The Taiwan Solidarity Union, a radically pro-independence group with 12 seats in the island’s 220-strong […]
Read MoreFrom ÈòøÂøÜGG – BLOG, former primer Zhu Rongji visited Lin Zexu Musuem in Fuzhou, Fujian province in July 2006. Zhu was surrounded by plainclothes security guards, but was recognized by other tourists. The photo was taken by a tourist there that day and circulated on the Internet.
Read MoreChina’s sexual revolution apparently has its limits, even in Guangzhou. From Reuters: Chinese sociologists said that the country should promote bolder attitudes toward sex, but that wife-swapping was off the agenda, state media reported Monday. Chinese attitudes toward sex have relaxed in recent decades, triggering a boom in extramarital relationships which the Communist Party has […]
Read MoreFrom Jaychoustudio.com: Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou (Âë®Êù∞‰º¶), furiously popular on the mainland, once had the lyrics of one of his songs included in an exam question for senior high school students. A university student even used to the song “Jay’s Image” as subject matter for a thesis. Now mainland teachers have turned the following […]
Read MoreFrom the Toronto Star, another review of Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals: Mao’s goals in the Cultural Revolution were threefold: to restore his position as unrivalled leader, to cut down his rivals and to ensure a “revolutionary successor generation” that would keep China on a Marxist path. To achieve those goals, […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: In Beijing, you are not allowed to set the air conditioning below 28C, the street lighting in the suburbs around the city has solar panels attached and the athletes in the Olympic village being built for the 2008 Games will all power-shower using renewable energy. Laudable though that may sound, Beijing’s environmental […]
Read MoreFrom Thestar online: She may be the daughter of former Chinese Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang. But Wang Yannan says almost no one in China knows – or cares about – who she is. And that suits her just fine. Referring to her late father, the unassuming 52-year-old says: “No one has ever asked me […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune Many of the African leaders coming here for the Chinese-African summit meeting are attracted not only by opportunities for aid and trade, but also by the Chinese model of development. They know that only three decades ago, China was as poor as Malawi. But while the latter remains among the world’s […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: It may be China’s most populous city, but Shanghai people are not ready to get up close and personal quite yet. Just 20 minutes after the free hugs campaign arrived on downtown East Nanjing Road on Saturday, 11 huggers and several journalists found themselves in a nearby police station. Their sign boards […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: America remains a colossus in Asia, for now. But between 1999 and 2004 trade among Asian countries jumped more than 80 percent, to $1.2 trillion, according to the World Trade Organization. Trade within Asia has come to exceed trade between Asia and the United States. China has become the largest […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: The flame from a looming oil tower illuminates the endless desert like a beacon of hope. Oil and natural gas — lots of it — have been discovered beneath the sands near this industrial town in the center of China’s isolated western Xinjiang Province. As in Iran and Saudi Arabia at […]
Read MoreFrom The Far Eastern Economic Review: The United Nations Population and Demographics Office reports that the average height of adult Chinese women has reached 170 centimeters, up from 159 centimeters in just about 25 years. On average, adult Chinese women are about four centimeters taller than American women. According to an opinion poll conducted on […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via China Daily: China has banned leg-lengthening surgery that a largely unregulated beauty industry has been offering to customers who want to be taller. “Leg-stretching surgery for the image conscious has been banned by China’s Health Ministry after a spate of botched operations,” the Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Hospitals that conduct at […]
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