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Nailing Down a Setttlement – Simon Elegant

Posted by Xiao Qiang | Mar 28, 2007

From The China Blog – TIME: My colleague in the Time Beijing bureau Jodi Xu writes: the media frenzy over the Chongqing “nail house” has highlighted similar cases in other parts of China, and may ultimately encourage other homeowners to also dig in their heels. A similar case in Shanghai (see picture below) ended a […]

China AIDS Activist Says Under House Arrest – Reuters

Posted by Wu Nan | Feb 15, 2007

From Reuters: An aged AIDS activist in central China said she remained under house arrest on Thursday despite abandoning plans to travel to the United States to collect a prize, but she vowed to keep exposing the spread of the disease. Gao Yaojie helped bring to light the spread of AIDS in her home province […]

“White House” Secretary Gets Life Term – Gao Fusheng

Posted by Michael Zhao | Feb 3, 2007

China, to a certain extent, is an architect’s paradise, and one for magnificent government buildings and complexes. This one, in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, will not be the last. From Yulun Jiandu Wang (ËàÜËÆ∫ÁõëÁù£ÁΩë), translated by CDT (photos: bird’s-eye views of Huiji District Govplex, via Xinhua, with story in Chinese): Feng Liucheng (ÂÜØÂàòÊàê), now former […]

China Awards Westinghouse Nuclear Reactor Contract – Ying Lou and Wing-Gar Cheng

Posted by Wu Nan | Dec 15, 2006

From Bloomberg: Toshiba Corp.’s Westinghouse Electric Co. won a contract from China to build four nuclear reactors, trumping Areva SA for a project worth as much $5.3 billion. The contract may produce 5,500 jobs in the U.S. Westinghouse will build two reactors at Sanmen in Zhejiang province and two at Yangjiang in Guangdong, the U.S. […]