From The New York Times: NORTH KOREA’S porous 880-mile border with China is its lifeline to the outside world. About 39 percent of its trade last year was with China, which, critically, supplies it with 80 to 90 percent of its oil. Trafficking in money transfers and human beings also flourishes. By contrast, North Korea’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Chinese Law Prof blog: A Xinhua item dated Oct. 20 reports as follows: A minor government officer in Southwest China has been arrested for mocking officials in mobile and internet messages, reported Friday’s The Beijing News. Qin Zhongfei, an official with the Pengshui county education commission in Chongqing, sent a satirical poem to […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: In China, Henan province is the largest province in terms of population and the fifth largest province in terms of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Yet its capital city Zhengzhou is ranked outside of the top twenty cities in China in both population and area size. The only way Zhengzhou was going to […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Weekend, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: Q: The Forum on Chinese Rural Development organized by Southern Rural News recently published the “Guangzhou Consensus” to call for local governments to amend their regulations within the existing framework to remove the various unfair restrictions against the development of peasant associations. The call is getting louder for the […]
Read MoreText from Global Voices Online and pictures from Fengniao: …In the time since mainland China implemented reforms, women in impoverished regions have escaped poverty by means of prostitution, and in those places there has appeared a situation of ‘smile at poverty but not at prostitutes’. This reflects women’s low status, a decline in women’s moral […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s migrant workers born in the late 1970s and 1980s are refusing to follow in their parents’ footsteps and do tough and dirty work in China’s booming cities, according to a report about migrant workers. Their choices have led to a lack of in three of China’s major manufacturing bases: the Pearl River […]
Read MoreA man living his whole life on a boat, via www.fengniao.com
Read MorePhotos of Beijing’s overpass bridges from Wenxuecity demonstrate the magnificence of China’s urbanization and modernity (but check out the snailing cars crawling through the West 3rd Ring Road at Guomaoqiao, Beijing’s Central Business District in the second photo here, which is a major problem Beijing’s first Olympics organizers need to solve in less than two […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese authorities have made their first known arrest in a corruption scandal involving Shanghai’s social security funds, detaining one of the country’s richest men. Zhang Rongkun(º†Ëç£Âù§), chairman of Fuxi Investment Holding Co., has been arrested, the private investment firm said in a one-sentence statement obtained on Saturday. Company spokesmen could not be reached […]
Read MoreFrom channel4.com: ……with new coal-fired power stations opening every 10 days in China – the impact of producing climate-changing gases will affect everyone. Since 1900 overall global carbon emissions have risen 13 per cent. Those in China have increased 47 per cent. China is now the second largest emitter of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions after […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: A noted Chinese theorist on modern warfare, Chang Mengxiong, compared China’s form of fighting to “a Chinese boxer with a keen knowledge of vital body points who can bring an opponent to his knees with a minimum of movements”. It is like key acupuncture points in ancient Chinese medicine. Puncture […]
Read MoreWaiting at a traffic light in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom AP: Nine people convicted of selling illegally copied DVDs and other goods have been jailed for up to 13 years in China’s biggest anti-piracy crackdown to date, a news report said Friday. The sentences were the longest reported since China stepped up penalties for product piracy in mid-2005, imposing jail time in addition to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In a reflection of China’s growing prominence in international finance, Hong Kong is set for a banner year in global markets: More money will be raised by companies selling shares to the public here than on the biggest exchanges in New York and London. And on Friday, pricing will be […]
Read MoreMelanie Kirkpatrick, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, wrote on the newspaper: If Beijing wants to send a message to Pyongyang about its nuclear program, it could announce that, effective immediately, it is taking several steps: It will stop deporting North Koreans, allow the United Nations to set up refugee camps, and […]
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