One more rippling effect of the downfall of the former Shanghai boss: Vice chairman and president of Shanghai-listed Haixin Group ” one of China’s largest plush manufacturers and producer of the 2008 Beijing Olympics mascots — is cooperating with the authorities regarding an investigation into his violation of disciplinary rules, according to a company statement. […]
Read MoreAfter a while of political clamoring in Taiwan, here comes some really sad news, a human Great Wall against AIDS/HIV communities: In a three-storey house in a quiet neighbourhood in southern Taipei, toddlers play with toys while the adults chat, rest or watch TV. Children are among those sheltered at Harmony Home. They have lived […]
Read MorePeople saving a girl out of the river in Beijing Zoo, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom DWnews, translated by CDT: July was the high season of plastic surgery last year in China. There were about 200 person/times in only several days in July in many plastic surgery hospitals. But this year, there were about 200-300, or even more than 300, in each day in July. And the high season in […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the International Herald Tribune: Long-debated legislation to protect private property in China is a step closer to being passed after the country’s top legislative panel reviewed the latest draft and deemed it ripe for approval, state media reported. The head of the national legislature, Wu Bangguo, and a panel of senior lawmakers […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Water pollution is threatening China’s oldest hydropower station — built nearly a century ago — and has forced it to halt operation several times. The Shilongba Power PlantÔºàÁü≥ÈæôÂùùÁîµÁ´ôÔºâ, located in the western suburbs of Kunming, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, was built in 1908 using German technology and equipment, said deputy director Tian […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese officials estimate the migrant population has reached 150 million, doubling over the past decade as poor rural residents flocked to cities to take part in the country’s economic boom, state media said on Sunday. The figure for migrants now amounts to 11.5 percent of the population of China, the world’s most populous […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian The biggest ship afloat is due to arrive in Felixstowe, Suffolk, this week on its maiden voyage from China with nearly 45,000 tonnes of Christmas presents and fare for the holiday season. The Emma Maersk, which is 400 metres long (1,300 ft), 56 metres wide and 60 metres tall, and dubbed the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China Daily: His father was a peasant and carpenter, and 44-year-old Yu Minhong(‰øûÊïèÊ¥™) will never forget watching him collect bits of waste brick and stones and stack them up in the small courtyard of their rural home. What use was all this rubble and debris? The day Yu saw his […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald: After reaching a four-year low in mid-2005, domestic stock markets in China have had a banner year in 2006, rising more than 50 percent – among the best performers in the world. Stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen are open to local investors and list shares that are mostly denominated in […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Times’ Special Report: China has taken a turn to the left just as foreign investors are lining up to place their bets on a capitalist future by buying shares in its biggest bank. A world record $19 billion (¬£10 billion) was raised in the biggest flotation ever when the Industrial and Commercial […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: The extent of the corruption purge thus far may mean Hu has overpowered Jiang Zemin and his allies. But it could also mean that the two leaders have reached a truce, a negotiated a consensus between factions whose differences may have been more about personal loyalties than they are about political philosophy. Observers […]
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Read MoreFrom RConversation blog: This is a picture from our panel titled “From China to the World, From the World to China.” I introduced the panel by talking about the serious imbalance of global information flows. Multinational media organizations are largely based in the West and for this reason, you have a heavy flow of information […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: I once heard an American musician who was friendly toward China say, “Every westerner who comes to China for the first time will be shocked at how many misconceptions they had before they came. Perhaps your propaganda methods have created a kind of cultural isolation.” To call it “cultural isolation” is obviously […]
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