From JoongAng Daily: Strolling through downtown Shanghai, a number of brands familiar to Korean visitors stand out. To name just a few, there is Paris Baguette, a bakery chain; Wa Bar, a bar franchise; E-mart, a discount chain; and BBQ, a fried chicken chain. Those Korean retailers, along with many others, are beefing up their […]
Read MoreFrom Rolling Stone: Remember Roger and Me? Remember those two rich old white ladies on the golf course who waxed poetic on the first tee about the despair of laid-off auto workers in Flint, Michigan, talking about how people just need to “try harder” and “keep at it” or whatever to overcome their problems? Well, […]
Read MoreDer Spiegel reports on the potential implications for China-North Korea trade under the new sanctions against Pyongyang: Trucks wait in a rumbling line to cross the bridge over the Yalu River. They’re fully loaded as they cross the river into North Korea — the semi-trailers, though, tend to be empty on the return run back […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Economists expect data to be released tomorrow to show China’s economy logged another strong quarterly expansion, despite back-to-back tightening measures aimed at slowing growth in investment and lending. China’s gross domestic product in the third quarter is likely to have grown 10.5% from the year-earlier period, according to the average […]
Read MoreWhat to make of Qiu Xiaohua’s abrupt removal from his job as China’s chief statistician? No one really knows for sure yet. Last week’s tersely worded Xinhua news agency item sounded an alarm bell that something was amiss. Word around Beijing is that Qiu will not be reassigned: he committed a “severe disciplinary violation” (‰∏•ÈáçËøùÁ∫™). […]
Read MoreAn Oct. 16 program of CCTV’s News Probe (Chinese) tells a story about devastated parents, some of whom sold all their property and ran into big debts to come up with hefty bills for as much as 900,000 yuan ($11,000) to treat their little kids’ thalassemia (Âú∞‰∏≠ʵ∑Ë¥´Ë°ÄÁóá) at Guangzhou Zhujiang Hospital (ÂπøÂ∑ûÁè†Ê±üÂåªÈô¢). They were among […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: UNESCO has threatened to delist one of China’s World Heritage areas if the Government proceeds with a plan to reduce the site by 20 per cent and allow mining and dam development around the remaining area. The Three Parallel Rivers is a pristine site in Yunnan province that covers the upper reaches […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: There are signs that China’s central government is giving regional authorities more power to manage their local economies, while at the same supervising them more carefully. The move suggests that Beijing is redefining its relationship with local government to cope with profound changes resulting from substantial economic reforms. Beijing has […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China on Wednesday published the Resolution on Major Issues Regarding the Building of a Harmonious Socialist Society, which was adopted at the conclusion of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 11. Resolution highlights the importance, guidelines, goals and principles of building […]
Read MoreA Yahoo China’s article about China’s immensely skewed wealth distribution was reposted by Reporters’ Home on Xici.net: China’s 1.5 million families, or 0.4% of its total, own 70% of the country’s wealth, according to a latest report by Boston Consulting published on Oct. 17. In developed countries, usually 5% of the households account for 50-60% […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: With its rooftop turrets and fancy brickwork, the Moller Villa is a throwback to the Roaring ’20s, when the treaty port of Shanghai, China, was a byword for speculative excess. Built by an Englishman, the Norwegian-style hotel now rents luxury suites to foreign bankers lured by the promise of China’s […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Wang Guangmei, the former Chinese first lady who was persecuted in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution with her husband, President Liu Shaoqi, has died, news reports said Monday. She was 85. Wang, forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls when she was purged at the height of the […]
Read MorePhoto: AIDS orphans stand with their grandmother, via the China Aids Initiative
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post reports on a talk by mainland philosophy professor Yuan Weishi, whose essay about Chinese history was cited by the government in their decision to close down Freezing Point Weekly: Speaking avidly about how China should learn from mistakes in history — a balanced account not distorted by the authorities — […]
Read MoreFrom In These Times: A new Chinese export has been spreading quietly across Asia and the United States: dust. Violent sandstorms from China’s expanding deserts have been battering numerous Chinese cities, and now their mustard-colored dust has begun reaching South Korea, Japan and the west coast of North America. “People dusting off their cars in […]
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