From The Globe and Mail: Call it the “88” generation. In the new age of hip, young, Web-savvy Chinese, you don’t say goodbye with an old-fashioned Chinese word. You sign off your messages with a cheery “88” — a phrase that baffles parents and horrifies conservative language guardians. The phrase’s origins are a crossbreed of […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: President Hu Jintao suggested in his September 15 speech at the United Nations General Assembly that a “world of harmony” be brought about by all nations on Earth. This signifies first of all the importance of the co-existence of diversified civilizations on our planet.
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The Chinese government has hinted that it is planning to gradually increase the value of the yuan next year. Influential government think-tank State Information Centre said the “trend” would be for the currency to rise. Such a move by Beijing would be welcomed by the US, which has long claimed that China […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Plans to end a controversial residency permit system have been welcomed as a positive step towards bridging the social, political and economic gulf between China’s countryside and its cities. The hukou system of household registration has for decades discriminated against the nation’s 800 million rural inhabitants, by depriving them of most of […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The mainland has been honest with the international community about its latest outbreaks of bird flu, a policy vital to global efforts to avert a threatened human pandemic, top UN health officials said. Concerns have been raised over the transparency of disease outbreaks on the mainland, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Arab Times: The ousted Communist Party chief of a Chinese county who wore a bullet-proof vest for years while fighting graft was himself sentenced to life in prison for corruption on Thursday, a source close to the defendant said. Huang Jin’gao, 53, was convicted by the Nanping Intermediate People’s Court in the […]
Read MoreESWN has translated the results of a survey, originally published in the Dongfang Morning News: Here are some results of a survey of 2,020 Chinese bloggers; the sampling methodology is unspecified, so please hold that grain of salt. – 26.2% started between 6 months to one year ago; 34.6% started between 3 months to 6 […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog: AEB: 2005 is an eventful year for Chinese’s mainstream economists, who have been plunged into stern criticism both from the public and on the Internet. Reflection on the current status of China’s economics may lead to a retrospect of China’s reform and policy. Therefore China Business Times (CBT) had an interview […]
Read MoreFrom Sinosplice: The other day I got in a taxi to discover that my driver was a pleasant middle-aged woman. Female taxi drivers are not exceedingly rare in Shanghai, but they’re not common, either. I was feeling gregarious, so I started chatting her up. (That’s one of the things I love about China barring language […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: BEIJING, Nov. 10 — The Sanitation Bureau of Beijing’s Haidian District announced on November 6 that, from the next day onward, the area’s busiest supermarkets and department stores would display real time information on their indoor air quality during holidays and at weekends, the first initiative of its kind. Zheng Yang, from the […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The head of the Chinese internet company that recently acquired Yahoo’s China operations has defended the US portal’s decision to help communist authorities track down and prosecute an independent-minded local journalist. Yahoo has been widely criticised for assisting the case against journalist Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years in […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: Translation of a Southern Metropolis Daily article of what culling looks from the viewpoint of the people involved, including many photographs. On October 28, chickens began to die in Jiangtai village, Badaohao town, Heishan county, Jinzhou City, Liaoning province. On November 1, Liaoning province made a preliminary determination that this was avian flu. […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: China’s insatiable demand for proteins as well as oil is turning Brazil into the takeaway for the workforce of the world. In the second part of our series, we reveal how the soya trade is creating a gold rush which is deforesting the Amazon.
Read MoreThe cover of this week’s Life Week magazine: All the People Blogging, via Danwei blog.
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Massage Milk (ÊåâÊ멉π≥) is China’s best blog, in your correspondent’s opinion. The blogger, who goes by the name Dai San Ge Biao, writes caustic commentary on Chinese media, and is a master of...
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