From Shanghai Daily: Women in China are catching up to men as consumers of luxury goods, industry officials said yesterday. More economic independence is giving women more buying power, a speaker told the annual China Luxury Summit in Shanghai. And as incomes rise and the middle class expands, research indicates that shoppers in Shanghai are […]
Read MoreFrom Google Video, this guitar factory is located in south east China in Guangdong province. The video clips show the manufacturing process for making electric guitars and acoustic guitars. [Click to see]
Read MoreFrom Google Video: China is one of the world’s oldest continuing civilizations, and archeologists are still fascinated by it today. Starting with the incredible discovery of an enormous army of clay soldiers in Emperor Q’in’s tomb, students will discover how archeologists have pieced together this magnificent find to learn about life in Q’in’s time. This […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: In Beijing this weekend, China is seeking tighter ties with regimes reviled in the West. For Chinese officials, this weekend’s summit of more than 40 African leaders is a chance to celebrate Beijing’s booming economic ties with the continent. For Western governments, though, the jamboree highlights a new and troubling […]
Read MoreFrom The USA Today: Forget Chairman Mao’s workers’ paradise. Communist China is taking a great leap toward huge private fortunes. Forbes’ annual list of the richest Chinese out today includes a record 15 billionaires, up from 10 last year and just three in 2004. That’s chump change in the USA, where all 400 on Forbes’ […]
Read MoreAccording to a research report, 90 percent of China’s billionaires are children of senior officials. There are about 2,900 senior officials’ children in China, with total wealth amounting to two trillion yuan. Their businesses mainly cover 5 areas: finance, foreign trade, land development, large-scale projects, and bonds and securities. They either own their businesses or […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: A senior executive for Microsoft has said the firm could pull out of non-democratic countries such as China. Fred Tipson, senior policy counsel for the computer giant, said concerns over the repressive regime might force it to reconsider its business in China. “Things are getting bad… and perhaps we have to look again […]
Read MoreCasting a fishing net in the backdrop of a setting sun, via qiujia blog.
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: A former top aide in China’s Communist Party under house arrest at his Beijing home since the 1989 pro-democracy movement has called on Beijing to uphold civil rights and let go of one-party rule. In an essay broadcast Wednesday by RFA’s Mandarin service, Bao Tong, former aide to the late disgraced […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: With a final flourish, Dr Wang Waihong dishes out glistening choy sum, or Chinese flowering cabbage, and receives an enthusiastic round of applause from her classmates. Made redundant from her job at a local hospital in China’s southern province of Guangdong, she has enrolled in cookery classes at a vocational training centre […]
Read MoreHere comes Li Xinde’ another piece of sexy report (ÁåõÊñô), again about corruption of high officials. This time it’s a like a novel of how a local cadre get away with raping women colleagues and planting charges against one of his underling who advised on one of the women to report (‰∏æÊä•). Wang Hua (ÁéãÂçé), […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent, a look at how the retrial in rights activist Chen Guangcheng’s case has encouraged those hoping for legal reform in China: Chen Guangcheng, the blind “barefoot lawyer” and activist who was jailed in August, had become a byword for the failings of the Chinese justice system – locked up for over four […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan’s president, has suggested his country could “freeze” its current constitution and adopt a new one, a move likely to re-ignite tensions with China. Speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Chen said that defining the scope of Taiwan’s sovereignty and territory was “extremely serious, complicated and sensitive, but also extremely […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor In most cities, taking your dog for a walk in the dead of night could be seen as a personal quirk or a byproduct of insomnia. But in Beijing, it’s a sure sign that the city’s dogcatchers are on the prowl for illicit mutts. If you don’t want your pet […]
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