AP reported the Xinhua’s story that most city dwellers in poor health, with the educated most at risk “Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red […]
Read MoreFrom New Scientists, September 2004: “China’s economic revolution is coming at a cost. While improved prosperity and government incentives convinced millions of people to give up the rural life and move into towns and cities, China’s agriculture is in rapid decline, prompting fears that the country that is home to one-fifth of the world’s population […]
Read MoreNew York Times had an article on the “Wild Wild East,” the world of avant-garde Beijing architecture. “Many of the projects were commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games, for which Beijing originally planned to spend a staggering $37 billion — more than three times what Athens paid — as it remade the city and its […]
Read MoreFormer BBC Beijing correspondent Tim Luard is back in China, 25 years after his first visit, to write a series of articles for BBC News Online on how much the country has changed. He is also writing a diary during his trip. Click here to read his fifth instalment. And his other four dairy articles […]
Read MoreThe Hindu News Update Service reported today that “China’s ruling Communist Party today expelled a former land and resources minister from the party on corruption charges in connection with land deals.”
Read MoreXinhu reported this morning: “Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee, which concluded here Sunday.”
Read MoreConfucian values such as keeping problems to oneself and venerating one’s ancestors are being challenged by a new trend in China that is sending more people to the therapist’s couch to solve their problems. In an article* Friday, the LA Times wrote that drug manufacturer Pfizer has reported a 100 percent increase in Prozac sales […]
Read MoreYitahutu (一塌糊涂), a familiar domain name for hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and alumni in Chinese universities, has disappeared from Chinese cyberspace. On September 13, The Beijing Communications Administration issued a notification that Yitahutu (YTHT) BBS is permanently closed. In the meantime, many Chinese BBS sites announced that it is forbidden to discuss YTHT […]
Read MoreThis is an OPED piece on Taipei Times. The author Chang Wu-ueh張五岳 wrote: “The most important thing for the Taiwan side to take note of is the gradual democratization in China, concomitant with increasing numbers of people going online — according to statistics, roughly 90 million people in China have access to the Internet — […]
Read MoreReuters reported today: “Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China’s Communist Party for a third day on Saturday, but party sources said military chief Jiang Zemin was likely to give up his last post due to ill health, completing a leadership succession. Jiang, 78, has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to step aside by […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: “The Internet has become a fact of daily life in so much of the world, that it is easy to forget many people have yet to become familiar with its uses. In rural China, where 70 percent of Chinese people live, many have never used a computer, much less accessed the Internet. Celia […]
Read MoreFrom United Press International: “Saudi Arabia, long the largest supplier of oil to the United States, has cut U.S. sales dramatically and is likely no longer among the top five largest U.S. suppliers. The Saudi kingdom’s new largest customer is China. ‘Saudi sales to the U.S. have fallen off the table,’ James Placke, a senior […]
Read MoreEswn has posted some beautiful photos, to express, as he writes, “the mysterious beauty and contradictions of China.” See them here.
Read MoreAccording to a report in Xinhua, “An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent… A recent survey by the party school of leading cadres above county level showed more than half lacked the ability to ‘make a scientific judgement of a situation’. More than […]
Read MoreIn an interview with the AFP, a WHO official says that healthcare costs will escalate in China as a lack of education and the government’s vested interests encourage the country’s smokers. One in three of the world’s smokers live in China. More than 1 million people die in China every year from tobacco-related illness; the […]
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