From China Daily: Chinese kids being influenced by the West isn’t news. Many sport the baggy pants, tinted hair, pierced body parts, and listen to hip-hop and make all the right dance moves. But when it comes to their bodies and sex, they could still learn a little something. That’s because kids in China are […]
Read MoreFrom San Francisco Chronicle: Revered in myth, extolled in film and almost destroyed by revolution, China’s famous Shaolin Temple, where the martial art of kung fu was created, has been revived to fascinate a new generation. “Coming here was a dream,” said Chen Fang, 13, one of 10,000 students now training in kung fu in […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Lu Banglie is not a household name in China. But for the growing pro-democracy movement, his role as a popularly elected village chief is a symbol of success after years of struggle for momentum. Mr Lu has...
Read MoreFrom CRI: China will launch nationwide campaigns to crack down on copyright infringement on the internet. The General Administration of Press and Publication and National Copyright Administration recently announced that the government will take strong actions against violators so as to protect intellectual property rights.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: JINHUA, China – All the tea in China is proving to be a lot of tea these days, as hillsides across central and southern China are bulldozed to make way for tea farms even as many young Chinese are losing interest in the beverage. China still has millions of tea […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The severe beating and possible murder of a grassroots activist in southern China at the weekend has highlighted the deep-seated problems in implementing the limited democratic reforms allowed at the local level by the central government in Beijing. Lu Banglie was dragged from a car by a small gang manning roadblocks […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: Chinese police tried two times but failed to indict a detained New York Times researcher on suspicion of leaking state secrets, a lawyer close to the case said yesterday. Their evidence was weak, he claimed. Mr Zhao Yan was detained in September last year on suspicion of helping […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Stuff.co.nz: China is becoming more tolerant of homosexuality, which until 2001 was listed as a mental disorder, but gays remain widely misunderstood and under heavy pressure to stay in the closet, state media said. Attitudes towards heterosexual relationships have relaxed since China began Western-style market reforms in 1978, unleashing a boom in […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: The Spark team is in Beijing, China, and Kristie Lu Stout is blogging on the road. Bookmark this page to read her daily journal. It’s been five years since I moved from Beijing to Hong Kong, and each time I return I scan for my old haunts… Liangma Flower Market, still standing. Asia […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), issued an interim regulation on October 8 to restrict Internet based pharmaceutical trading services in China, according to an official statement from SFDA. The requirements will go into effect on December 1, 2005. The Internet based pharmaceutical trading services include e-commerce activities between drug manufacturers, distributors, […]
Read MoreFrom AOA News: Environmental group Greenpeace says global warming is threatening the main source of China’s Yellow River and causing serious damage to the environment and people’s livelihoods. The group says carbon-dioxide emissions must be reduced or the river and the livelihoods of people who rely on it will be at risk. A study commissioned […]
Read MoreFrom TIME Asia: Monday, Oct. 10, 2005 The second-ever manned Chinese space flight is slated to carry two astronauts on a five-day journey circling Earth, while they conduct experiments on pig sperm. But the flight’s importance reaches far beyond any advances in animal husbandry that may result from exposing hog semen to weightlessness. It is […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Standard: The OECD finds that China’s recent success is due both to bold policy and high investment. Will India follow. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), based in Paris, is often considered the “rich nations’ club”. It was founded in 1960 following the successful reconstruction of Europe under the Marshall […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party began drawing an economic road map for the next five years in a major meeting that began over the weekend, Xinhua, the official press agency, reported Monday, citing the party. The plan will focus on social services to narrow the widening gap between the […]
Read More“Do Not Want Pollution!”, from photo series: Along the Yellow River, via duowei.com
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