From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Beijing Media, the first Chinese state-owned media company to sell shares to the public, said two of its vice presidents and four other employees have been detained in Beijing. Advertising department head Yu Dagong and two of his subordinates were being held on suspicion of bribery […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A million dollar wedding isn’t a novelty in the eastern metropolis of Shanghai nowadays, while a pot of turnip tassel was served at the lunch of a five-member rural family in Anhui Province some 400 km away. China’s wealth gap has been widening to a dangerous level, warns the Chinese Ministry of Labor […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune, via San Jose Mercury News (free registration required): Mr. Li, a 64-year-old retiree with an upset stomach, reached Beijing’s most famous hospital one morning recently, ready to see a doctor. He brought a blanket, newspapers and a bag of fruit. With any luck, he would stand in line for just 26 hours. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has issued a set of regulations on the safety of radioactive isotope and radiation devices, which require immediate and accurate report of any radiation-related accidents. The people who are responsible for the accidents will face administrative punishment or be brought to court, according to the regulations, which take effect on Dec. 1 […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: At this very moment, a Chinese farmer is speeding across Africa on a motorbike, his mission to spread a message of peace from his homeland. Since departing 10 months ago, Chen Liangquan has driven across Asia and visited the majority of Africa’s 53 nations. He hopes to pass on his message of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: At one end of the rail yard, mechanics with two-foot-long wrenches fuss lovingly over the workings of a handful of black steam locomotives, while other workers load them up with coal or wipe their huge, cylindrical air compressors clean with large rags. The men in the old yard seem more […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via Google news: Japan has proposed to China that working-level talks on undersea oil and gas deposits in a disputed area of the East China Sea resume on Oct. 19, Japan’s trade minister said Tuesday. Shoichi Nakagawa gave no other details of the proposed talks, which would be the fourth […]
Read MoreFrom Good Morning America’s ongoing series about China: Carol Wang and Emily Ellenberger live 7,000 miles apart, but the teenagers share many similarities. Both are focused, determined, sociable, determined and computer-savvy. Yet once the school bell rings, the differences between the two college-bound students’ educations are striking. Carol’s school in China is sharply focused on […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: During George W. Bush’s first term in office, critics complained of a lack of foreign-policy consensus within the administration. But since Condoleezza Rice has taken over at the State Department, administration officials seem to be working from the same script on almost all the most pressing international issues. Except China. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNET News: Taiwan’s government has asked Web search company Google to stop calling the self-ruled island a “province of China” on its Google Maps service, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday… “It is incorrect to call Taiwan a province of China because we are not,” foreign ministry spokesman Michel Lu said. “We […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China aims to become a leading player in the fast-growing biotechnology sector by capitalising on research costs that are one fifth those of Europe or the United States, a top official said on Monday. In the past, the country’s drug industry has largely consisted of manufacturing cheap generics and producing traditional Chinese medicine. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSN Money Chinese authorities have shut down an online discussion forum that reported on anti-corruption protests in a village in the country’s south as well as a Web site serving ethnic Mongolians, overseas monitors said Tuesday… Radio Free Asia, a U.S.-based broadcaster, said an online forum that covered protests in the village […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 30 – In this lush, affluent region where adultery is so ingrained that wealthy businessmen keep their lovers in “concubine villages,” infidelity is often tolerated in a marriage. But Cai Shaohong could not put up with it. So against the advice of her parents, Ms. Cai, 29, decided […]
Read MoreChinese Lanterns in an outdoor market, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: By 2050, China and India will make up half of the global economy. Tracing a route through the folds of the eastern Himalayas, Motilall Lakhotia is explaining how Indian trade caravans used to ply the scenic Chumbi valley into Tibet.”It was a big trade even then. The Tibetans sold us Indians silver, […]
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