From Xinhua: “My son stays at home and plays on-line games all day long, still spending our income,” Zhang Baoguo, a Shanghai citizen said Thursday in an interview with the local Wenhui Daily, unable to conceal his concern. Zhang is busy looking for a job for his son, a college graduate, who not long before […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: There have been quite a few violent confrontations between the authorities and the “unwitting” Chinese people recently. From Hanyuan in Sichuan to Wanzhou in Chongqing, from Dongyang in...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The art world’s latest discovery: Chinese artists who came of age in the 1980s. In a fit of speculation and discovery, Americans are starting to buy, show and sell contemporary Chinese art — just as prices for the works are rising at auctions in Hong Kong and Beijing. New York’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The chairman of CNOOC Ltd., the Chinese energy firm embroiled in a thorny campaign to purchase the U.S. oil company Unocal Corp., voiced dismay on Wednesday over what he called “overreaction” from Washington by those portraying the deal as a threat to fair trade and U.S. national security. In an interview […]
Read MoreFrom AAP: Chinese Ambassador Fu Ying has accused would-be defector and former diplomat Chen Yonglin of greed, saying if he succeeded in his quest for refuge in Australia it could open the floodgates. Addressing the inaugural Australia-China Coal Summit, Ms Fu said Mr Chen appeared to hate China, adding: “But China, the country he dislikes […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Up to 80 per cent of the beggars lingering in Guangzhou are professional beggars, according to statistics from the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau… Between January and May 2005, 15,401 vagrants and beggars in Guangzhou were sent to government welfare centres. The exact number of vagrants and beggars in the urban area […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China has tightened regulations prohibiting the sale of alcohol to minors in what is to be a step toward establishing a legal drinking age, state press reported. New regulations issues on July 1 ban the sale of drinks with an alcohol content higher than 0.5 percent to persons under 18, the Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Feminist Daily News Wire: Chinese lawmakers have submitted a draft amendment to the country’s Law on Women’s Rights Protection, first passed in 1992, to strengthen its equality provisions for women. If passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the amendment will make women’s rights part of state policy for the first […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Representatives of Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Wednesday voiced their wishes to offer their help for and be good partners of the government. Li Xiaolin, vice president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, made the remarks while delivering a keynote speech at a “Chinese NGO Forum” held in Beijing. “Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Wired News: The 12 teenagers and young adults, some in ripped jeans and baggy T-shirts, sit in a circle, chewing gum and fidgeting as they shyly introduce themselves. “I’m 12 years old,” one boy announces with a smile. “I love playing computer games. That’s it.” “It’s been good to sleep” says another, […]
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Read MoreFrom Xinhua: More Chinese are ignorant to sex than to other knowledge, even including those having received high education and experts of other fields, according to Xu Tianming, the president of China Sexology Society. “In the survey we conducted, not only youngsters, but many grow-ups are sex idiots, which is really dangerous and woeful,” Xu […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The leader of an underground Chinese church appeared in a Beijing court on Thursday, accused of illegally printing more than 200,000 Bibles. Cai Zhuohua, along with his wife and two other church members, has been charged with “illegal business practices”, his lawyers have said. The Protestant pastor has already been in detention […]
Read MoreFrom WorldNetDaily: A Catholic bishop who already has spent 20 years in prison was arrested by Chinese authorities for the sixth time in the past 18 months. Monsignor Julius Jia Zhiguo, 70, underground Bishop of Zhengding in northern China was arrested outside his home Monday, according to the U.S.-based Cardinal Kung Foundation, a monitor of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: They may have guarded the tomb of China’s first emperor for thousands of years, but the terracotta warriors are facing their toughest battle yet. The life-sized clay figures unearthed three decades ago in Shaanxi province are starting to fall apart and Chinese and US scientists have launched a two-year research project to […]
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