What the h…?! Isn’t it ridiculous to have a $100,000 public toilet, even if it’s bullet proof? The company that installed the automated-service, anti-terror WC booth from France wanted to give Beijingers the opportunity to enjoy urban convenience. But controversy abounds:
Read MoreHave you ever thought about how difficult life would be for millions upon millions of migrant workers in major Chinese cities, who have been far away from their homes and wives and children? One question not extensively probed is how do they manage a physically exhausting life without sex for most of the year? Here […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Song Zude is at it again. The latest revelations from China’s least reliable source of nasty celebrity gossip may cost him whatever credibility he managed to scrape together when he correctly called the...
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: Hundreds of people clashed with riot police in a village in southern China, leaving some villagers hospitalized, a news report said Thursday. Hong Kong’s Cable TV broadcast footage from villagers that showed them scuffling with police in riot gear Tuesday. The station said hundreds of people took part […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: China hopes to expand its growing economic and political clout at the Nonaligned Movement summit, influence that analysts say will come at the expense of the United States, which passed up a similar invitation to attend as an observer. Led by China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Planet Ark: China’s drought-prone capital must curb its rapid population growth or risk running out of water, local media reported on Thursday. Chinese environmental officials have dubbed Beijing, host of the 2008 Olympics, the driest major city on the planet. Already a magnet for thousands of students and migrant workers from impoverished […]
Read MoreA stinging attack on local government negligence in environmental protection from the Party mouthpiece: Official dereliction of duty has been blamed for a mass poisoning case triggered by a factory in Gansu Province that belched out 800 times the acceptable level of lead. The deputy head of China’s top environmental watchdog slammed the role of […]
Read MorePicking up from Shanghai Daily: At its hometown show last week, China’s First Auto Works wowed the locals with a demonstration of what was described as the country’s first unmanned vehicle ” not counting spacecraft, of course. The vehicle in question was a specially modified version of FAW’s Hongqi (Red Flag) HQ3 sedan, which was […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square ” he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit ” is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A senior official of China’s Xinhua News Agency has cited “numerous violations” of tax and other laws by foreign counterparts as justification for rules banning them from dealing directly with local clients. The rules, which also give Xinhua the power to censor news and information distributed in China by foreign news agencies […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chongming, an island at the mouth of the Yangtze river, has felt the impact of environmental degradation more than many places, as its population has doubled in 50 years and deforestation has silted up the river. Now Chongming is to become a model for environmental good practice. The Shanghai government has just […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: You could almost hear the clock ticking last week as diplomats scrambled to find a solution to end the killing in Darfur, western Sudan… Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur ” Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held […]
Read MoreFrom Geotimes: China’s Three Gorges Dam is famed for its size ” and its reservoir may be large enough to change regional weather patterns. The large body of water has altered temperatures, wind patterns and rainfall rates in both the local Three Gorges Dam region and in the upstream Sichuan Basin, a new study reports […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.ca: A newspaper in southern China has suspended a cartoonist after he drew a weeping Chinese President Hu Jintao, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Thursday. Depicting national leaders in cartoons is considered politically incorrect in China, although it is periodically done without repercussions, the South China Morning Post said. But artist Kuang Biao’s […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Daniel Bell writes: Marxism no longer serves as Chinese society’s guiding ideology. But that doesn’t mean the end of ideology. Western experts hope liberal democracy will fill the void, but they will have “joined Karl Marx,” as the Chinese used to say, before that happens. In China, the moral vacuum […]
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