From The Global Voices Online: When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors film the clashes on their cellphones, and […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: “The United States has nothing to fear from China’s emergence as a global economic power… We want you to succeed … The tasks faced by Beijing are so daunting that the biggest risk we face is not that China will overtake the US, but that China won’t move ahead with […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Chinese officials promised today that new rules restricting the sale of foreign wire service news would not affect press freedoms. But they also strongly defended efforts to control the distribution of financial and economic news inside the country. Xinhua, China’s main government news agency, issued regulations on Sunday that would […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post, via A Glimpse of the World blog: In the studios of Capital Life Radio’s No. 1 rated show, “Tonight’s Whisperings,” the co-host leaned in close to the microphone. “Tonight we’re going to talk about love and sex,” Sun Yan said in a deep voice, launching into a text message sent in […]
Read MoreFrom A Glimpse of the World blog: XI’AO, China Where as many as 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea, stare glumly at reminders of their loss. […]
Read MoreFrom Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Large-scale public disturbances have been on the rise in China for more than a decade. Media reports describe violence, injuries, and even deaths on both sides, linked to brick-throwing, tear gas, Molotov cocktails, rockets, bullets, beatings, burned vehicles, stabbings, and standoffs between hundreds of police and thousands of protestors. […]
Read MoreReuters and Chinese bloggers both wrote about the new “happiness index” formulated by the Chinese government. From Reuters: China will formulate a new “happiness index” (Âπ∏Á¶èÊåáÊï∞Ôºâthis year to include living conditions, the environment and salary, state television said on Wednesday. “The Happiness Index will include ordinary people’s feelings towards their own living conditions, such as […]
Read MoreA short discussion by Dalai Lama on science and religion: Also trailer of “Visually & Respetfully Yours,” on Tibetan Buddhism and Tears of Tibet, a heavier topic but in lower visual quality also via YouTube
Read MoreFrom Onemanbandwidth blog: And if only David Carradine, of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Fame, had known he did not have to get that image of a dragon scalded into his forearms: [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom Riding Sun blog via Onemanbandwidth blog: If I were in a Beijing taxi and saw this looming ahead I would probably brave a Wild West leap out of the window. I cannot imagine anyone cabbie reading (I could stop here) this and being able to react in time . The Chinese do road directions […]
Read MoreFrom Sina Web, translated by CDT: Sina Web recently publishes the ranking list of 100 top China’s best Graduate Schools in 2006. Tsinghua University(Ê∏ÖÂçé§ßÂ≠¶), Peking University(Âåó‰∫¨Â§ßÂ≠¶) and Zhejiang University (ʵôʱü§ßÂ≠¶) are the top three on the list. Last year these three universities were also considered as the top three. Seven other universities’ graduate schools follow […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A popular television host known as China’s Larry King said on Wednesday that Shanghai authorities pulled the plug on his talk show this year to prevent him from exposing a sensitive case of local official corruption. In his first interview with Western media since being forced off of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: For pupils bored of the traditional extra-curricular activities, such as violin lessons or drama classes, there is now another option golf. A Shanghai school has recently introduced the country’s first golf lessons, costing 4,800 yuan (US$585) a term, for its pupils. Five pupils at the Shanghai Yangjing-Juyuan Experimental School have already started […]
Read MoreAnother Chinese characteristics: automated verdict issuing. From Reuters via the New York Times: A court in China has used a software program to help decide prison sentences in more than 1,500 criminal cases, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday. The software, tested for two years in a court in Zibo, a city in the […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China will allow investors in the northern city of Tianjin greater freedom to buy and sell currencies as part of moves towards a fully convertible yuan. China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has approved Tianjin’s plan for “limited convertibility” of the yuan at the Binhai economic area, the city’s mayor Dai Xianglong said […]
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