Photo series: Security guards beating up peddlers, from Nanning, Guangxi Province, via BBS.163.com
Photo series: Security guards beating up peddlers, from Nanning, Guangxi Province, via BBS.163.com
Read MoreAnalysis: Google nudging changes in China – Edward Lanfranco
From UPI, via MENAFN.com: The announcement last week that Google, the world’s premier search engine, had chosen Beijing as the location for its eighth research and development center marks an important transformation from the virtual to real world for billions, whether measured in people or revenue potential. The Mountain View, Calif., firm had good reasons […]
Read MoreHistory drives Chinese sales – Souren Melikian
From the International Herald Tribune: The massive entry of citizens from the People’s Republic of China into the Chinese art market has become a common topic in the media. The focus is nearly always on the financial consequences or the nationalism that supposedly drives the new players. Whether the Chinese are any more nationalist in […]
Read MoreHow far will it go? – The Economist
From the Economist: In truth, the economy is slowing more markedly than these (highly suspect) official figures suggest. Many economists say that China has an institutionalised bias to over-reporting growth at the bottom of a cycle and under-reporting it at the top, to reduce the volatility of the numbers. Judged by physical indicators, such as […]
Read MoreMysterious disease kills 17 in southwest China – Reuters
From Reuters: Authorities in southwest China are investigating a mysterious disease that has killed 17 farm workers and left 41 others ill after they handled sick or dead livestock, state media said on Monday. The government of Sichuan province has dismissed speculation that the deaths were caused by bird flu or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome […]
Read MoreMainland chat service wants users’ real names – Kevin Huang
From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A plan by the mainland’s dominant instant messenger portal, QQ, to require that organisers and governors of chat groups register their real names has triggered a storm of protest among users. QQ has more than 400 million registered users, and membership is required to take part […]
Read MoreInternal Reference Materials in China -ESWN
From The EastSouthWestNorth Blog: For someone who has any familiarity with the official Chinese media — especially the Xinhua news agency — the impression must be that if Chinese government officials have to rely on...
Read MoreRising China versus rising India – Kavi Chongkittavorn
From The Nation – Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper: How do you cope with the rise of China? Since last week, it has become very clear that a do-able option is to create another rising Asian power. But the chosen country would have to possess distinctive qualities and values that the world’s most-populous country does not have, […]
Read MoreChinese tourist beaten by US police to testify in court – Xinhua
From Xinhua – English: Chinese businesswoman Zhao Yan, mistreated by American policeman Robert Rhodes, will go to the United States and testify in court on August 5. The pre-court preparation has been completed and police have found a key witness, a Chinese-American woman, who will give testimony in court on the same day, according to […]
Read MoreChina’s yuan gains against dollar – BBC
From BBC NEWS: China’s yuan has gained against the US dollar in its second session of trading after currency limits were relaxed for the first time in a decade last week. The yuan ended trading at 8.1097 against the dollar on Monday, up from its Friday close of 8.11.
Read MoreBig Breasts and Wide Hips- Kenny Ng
From the MCLC Resource Center: First published in China in 1996, Mo Yan’s Big Breasts and Wide Hips has come to be seen as yet another contentious work by the author. While the novel gained immediate critical acclaim after its publication, winning an award from a non-government literary magazine in Mainland China, it drew vehement […]
Read MoreSurvey: Young suffer from depression most
From China Daily: Young people, especially those with university degrees, make up the largest proportion of Chinese people suffering from depression, statistics from the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Centre revealed this week. According to a survey of 15,431 depression sufferers over the past two years, people in their 20s accounted for 37.6 per cent […]
Read MoreKorean-Chinese warned not to help refugees from North – Benjamin Kang Lim
From Reuters, via New Kerala: A mugshot of a North Korean soldier arrested after slipping into China and pictures of murdered Korean-Chinese farmers are hard to miss in Chinese villages along the long border between the two countries. The photographs are displayed on giant noticeboards outside police stations in many border villages in northeastern Jilin […]
Read MorePhoto series: a closed state owned automobile factory, from bbs.163.com.
Photo series: a closed state owned automobile factory, from bbs.163.com.
Read MorePhoto: Photo series: a closed state owned automobile factory, from bbs.163.com.
Photo series: a closed state owned automobile factory, from bbs.163.com.
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