From CRIEnglish: Shanghai‘s suburban Jinshan District, known as “Chinese Picassos,” are famous for their paintings of colorful scenes of country life, and the government is schooling them and setting up a website so they can turn out art to order. In the old Zhonghong Village of suburban Jinshan District, away from the hustle and bustle […]
Read MoreOriginally published in the Swedish Ordfront Magasin, this article was translated and posted by Three Gorges Probe: The Nu River valley contains representatives of 25 per cent of the world’s animal species, and more than half of China’s, including endangered species such as the snow leopard and the red panda. This stretch of the river […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The Shanghai Jinshan District Government has confirmed that Suntory Investment, a Chinese investment company, has acquired 74 per cent equity of Shanghai Eastern Sea Beer, a leading brewery company located in Zhangyan County of the district. The deal makes Suntory become the largest shareholder of Eastern Sea Beer. Suntory Beer is considered a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Even as the main dam of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir, the world’s largest hydroelectric project, was completed in late May several months ahead of schedule, China is gearing up to launch another massive Yangtze River dam-building project. Sandwiched between the towering majesty of the Jade Dragon and Haba Snow Mountains in […]
Read MoreFrom smh.com.au: Built to withstand marauding Mongol hordes, the Great Wall of China is being damaged by drunken, drug-taking yobs who hold “blasphemous” raves and “wild orgies” along the country’s most famous monument. The outdoor parties and barbecues, mainly attended by young Westerners working and studying in China, “severely damage the image of the Great […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: JINSHA, China (AFP) – Day after sweltering day on the banks of the Modi stream, archeologists are dealing shattering blows to traditional views of Chinese history as they work their way through the parched, yellow earth. One of the world’s great cities once flourished here at Jinsha village in China’s southwest, the […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for following content: Taiwan’s Interior Mininstry and the Taipei City government differ on how road signs should be spelled. The Taiwan government favors Tongyong Romanization, a romanization that grew out of the Wade-Giles romanization for Mandarin Chinese. Tongyong is nonetheless fairly similar to Hanyu Pinyin. Tongyong also accomodates spelling of two […]
Read MoreFrom Emagazine.com, Cathy Shufro wrote: “In the land where 85,000 dams have bloomed, the builders of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir in China are poised to begin another project. The giant hydropower company plans to...
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