From AP: Customs officials examined trucks at the North Korean border Monday as China complied with new U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang for its nuclear test. But China’s U.N. ambassador indicated its inspectors will not board ships to search for suspicious equipment or material. On Tuesday, North Korea said the United Nations effectively declared war on […]
Read MoreFrom The Radio Free Asia: Broadband customers across China have hit out at software provided by the country’s biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP), saying it limits their autonomy online. Forums and chatrooms have been buzzing with annoyed comments from customers of industry behemoth China Telecom, which has the lion’s share of the broadband market nationwide, […]
Read MoreFrom PTI, via The Hindu: About 45,000 Chinese lose their eyesight every year due to various eye diseases, latest official statistics said Sunday, the International Day of the Blind. By July this year, China had reported 12 million people having eye problems, with five million being blind and another 1.35 million suffering from amblyopia (reduced […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Golf lessons are going to be made compulsory for some students at one Chinese university, reports say. The president of Xiamen University in south-east China was quoted as saying it would help produce “socially elite people with the best education”. Golf, once frowned upon by China’s Communist Party, is now enjoyed by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: AIDS in China has spread beyond high risk groups such as injecting drug users, prostitutes and homosexuals and the country is becoming “like Africa” in how the virus is transmitted, a senior health official says. “There are 190 new HIV infections every day … and one percent of all pregnant women in China […]
Read MoreWant to go to see the Great Wall without making the trip up to Beijing? “Come to my factory then,” says the boss of Shengxin Food Factory (Âú£ÂøÉÈ£üÂìÅÂéÇ) at the Chashan Township Industrial Park (Ëå∂±±ÈïáÂ∑•‰∏öÂõ≠) in Dongguan City of Guangdong Province. He built a 30-meter-long, 6-meter-high mini Great Wall inside his own plant and hopes […]
Read MoreFrom Fengniao: This group of photos were taken in March of this year. The photographer was following the folk troupe for 8 days. (Left) Everyone is busy and doesn’t have time to take care of the sleeping baby. (Right)Ai Hong, the most popular girl in the troupe, is putting on the traditional makeup.
Read MoreReady? Set, Go!!! (An amateurish Tibetan independence protest clip below) Did you know: China will spend more than $400 billion through 2010 building airports, roads, water systems and infrastructure projects, according to today’s Wall Street Journal. Three major tabs: $40 billion for the Beijing Olympics (by 2008, 3 times that of Athens’s infrastructure spending), $41 […]
Read MoreFrom Three Gorges Probe: Director Jia Zhangke, a leading figure in what is known as China’s Sixth Generation of filmmakers, won the prestigious Golden Lion prize at the recent Venice Film Festival for his movie Still Life, shot in the Three Gorges area… Jia Zhangke spoke with Three Gorges Probe while in Toronto last month […]
Read MoreA bicyclist in Pudong wears a face mask to protect against smog, by Dan Eckstein
Read MoreXinhua reports on the controversy stirred by a blog written by a single, pregnant woman in China: Criticized by some as a harlot but canonized by others as a charming expecting mother, a Chinese blogger is stirring a lot of on-line debate because she’s not married. “Ground Melon Pig“, as she calls herself, has decided […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Jiang Wenli’sÔºàËíãÈõ؉∏ΩԺ⠓incestuous” ad for the Maxam line of skin-care products has had the Chinese media buzzing for the last week. Opinion pieces in newspapers across the country have asked important questions like “Has it crossed the line of acceptable social standards?” and have given valuable suggestions like “What can be said […]
Read MoreAfter ICBC made its world-record IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Citic Bank is planning a dual listing too. This is just another example of China’s banks’ craze for listing. So far, there are 4 mainland banks listed either in Hong Kong or in Shanghai: ICBC, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, China Merchants Bank. […]
Read MoreChina’s official English-language daily newspaper comes out with a harrowing list of environmental statistics and an appeal for more staff to help the beleaguered State Environmental Protection Administration actually enforce the government’s new commitment to green growth: An “unexpected environmental accident” occurred in China roughly every other day in the first half of this year, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, on Monday night appeared close to sealing a landmark $1bn acquisition in China, after emerging as the leading bidder in a year-long auction for Trust-Mart, China’s second-largest hypermarket chain. People close to the negotiations said that Wal-Mart had edged out France’s Carrefour and local competitors, but cautioned […]
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