An article in the People’s Daily English edition contrasts contemporary nightlife in Beijing with night-time activities in Chinese history. The article concludes: “However, the quality of Chinese nightlife is questionable. A recent Internet survey on Beijing summer nightlife showed that people spend 60 percent of their leisure expenses on drink. The same survey showed that […]
Read MoreVillage, county, township, and provincial level government in Fuzhou is seizing land from peasants. The farmland is being developed into factories. Although the peasants were promised between $4000 and $5000 for their plots, the largest sum that has been paid is $150. Xiao Xiangjin, a peasant and local correspondent for China Reform magazine, petitioned on […]
Read MoreChinese government has been announcing the effort of removing corrupt ranking officials in Heilongjiang province. AFP reported that “A corruption-plagued province of China has sacked five top leaders including its highest judge and top prosecutor after a corruption scandal, state press said on Monday. The legislature of the north-eastern Heilongjiang also removed a vice-governor, a […]
Read MoreAccording to a report by AFP: “The southern province of Guangdong is offering free HIV tests to homosexual men as part of its fight against the spread of the virus which causes AIDS. ” A China Daily report is here.
Read MoreThe BBC reports on the Chinese government’s efforts to foster an expanding middle class in order to help the country achieve rapid economic growth: “In the booming eastern cities there is a confidence and energy in the air – thick as it is with the dust from countless building sites – that suggests plans for […]
Read MoreFrom AP today: “The World Health Organization is calling on China to improve road safety, saying an estimated 680 people are killed each day on the country’s highways. WHO officials say the problem is growing worse as the number of vehicles in China skyrockets. The World Health Organization presented its World Report on Road Traffic […]
Read MoreFrom UN News Center today: “United Nations cooperation with China and the European Union, as well as peace-building efforts, will be among the topics Secretary-General Kofi Annan is scheduled to address during official visits to China, Ireland and the United Kingdom next week, his spokesman announced today. The Secretary-General will leave this weekend for Beijing, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC today: “China’s state-run media has rejected calls from the Taiwanese president for peace talks with Beijing. The China Daily newspaper said Chen Shui-bian’s idea was “too insincere and vague to be treated seriously”. In an address to mark Taiwan’s National Day on Sunday, Mr Chen urged China to agree to talks to resolve […]
Read MoreAFP reported this today. “City officials plan to install 1,000 condom-vending machines in a bid to curb the spread of Aids, state media reported yesterday. Machines will be put in hotels and bars and on university campuses to sell ‘quality-guaranteed’ products at one yuan (2 Singapore cents) apiece, according to the official Xinhua news agency. […]
Read MoreGuardian just had an article on “Pollution forces cancellation of air show for Chirac” “Millions of Beijing residents were warned to stay indoors at the weekend as a hazardous smog choked the city, closed highways and forced the cancellation of an air show for the visiting French president, Jacques Chirac. The haze, which is caused […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: “The jungle law is the law of nature in a market with full competition. Such condition is extremely severe in the Chinese securities market, which is mainly ascribable to the information asymmetry between participants: between stock traders and institutions, between stock traders and the government, and between institutions and the government. […]
Read MoreFrom the Asahi Shimbun today: “Hoping to put the country’s relationship with China back into play and stem growing anti-Japanese sentiment, lawmakers from China and Japan are to don their soccer boots for a friendly match in Beijing next year, sources said over the weekend. According to the sources, Lower House Speaker Yohei Kono and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua today: “China’s economy is expected to grow 9.4 per cent this year and slow slightly to 8.9 per cent next year, reported the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at a symposium on China’s economic situation in Beijing yesterday. Wang Tongsan, a senior economist with the academy, said the country’s economic growth this year […]
Read MoreThe IHT published an obituary of a woman believed to be the last person to be fluent in a rare script used for secret communication among women in Hunan Province: “The script, Nushu, represents the language spoken in Jiangyong Prefecture in southern Hunan. Women, who were denied education for many centuries, used it to share […]
Read MoreAlso on this issue of Newsweek: “In some ways, China is an unlikely hotbed for e-commerce. Only 38 percent of online buyers pay with credit or debit cards, using instead an army of bicycle messengers delivering cash. There are no reliable credit ratings, or postal services, so some online auction customers still want to meet […]
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