Chinese officials and thousands of volunteers are still struggling to clean up the thick, green algae that has floated into the Olympic sailing competition waters. Officials claim that the algae is naturally-occurring, but some volunteers point to factory pollution as
Ted Koppel has a new four-part series on the Discovery Channel about China called "People's Republic of Capitalism." From an AP report about the show:The series illustrates how dramatically China has changed in ways obvious and not-so-obvious, from the jumble
The Observer has an interview with iconoclastic artist Ai Weiwei:Ai Weiwei, China's most famous living artist, lives and works in Caochangdi, which used to be a village to the east of Beijing but is now, thanks to the city's endless
From The Financial Times:In the end it was a nagging feeling that the eyes had lost their iconic, melancholy look made German manufacturer Steiff realise that if you want top-quality teddy bears, China might not be your best bet.Before that
The New York Times reports on a new competition between mainland China and Taiwan - over a ping-pong table:Outside, the tropical heat of southern Taiwan seems to wither even the palm trees, while inside, the players break into a sweat
Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu report in Newsweek magazine:The Chinese phrase for "crisis" combines the words for both "danger" and "opportunity." That pretty much describes how the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that flattened parts of Sichuan also shattered parts of the traditional
The Guardian interviews six activists and dissidents including Ma Jian, Wan Yanhai, Li Fangping, Dai Qing, Dean Peng, and Woeser:Countless thousands of people in China are blacklisted, harassed, intimidated and locked up merely for what they say or because of
As part of his continuing series on China's cultural legacy, New York Times art critic Holland Cotter reports from Dunhuang on the state of the Mogaoku Buddhist cave paintings:Mogaoku is in trouble. Thrown open to visitors in recent decades, the
Globe and Mail has a profile of champion fencer Jujie Luan, who at the age of 50 will be competing in Beijing after winning the gold for China in Los Angeles 24 years ago:Ms. Luan - the grand dame of
Chinese filmmakers are asking why a movie like Kung Fu Panda had to be made outside China. From Reuters: Lu said the government was stifling the creativity of China's filmmakers, explaining how he had been asked to make an animated
Over the past two weeks, information and comments about the Weng'an riot have dominated Chinese chatrooms and blogosphere. The Xinhua news agency quickly put out its official version of the story, and while reporters from the official domestic media and
The Chinese government has announced plans for rebuilding towns and cleaning up damage from the earthquake. From Xinhua:China's State Council published on Friday guidelines on post-quake reconstruction, emphasizing house repair and building work.The State Council, China's Cabinet, stressed priority for
From China Brief, via Global Terrorism Analysis:Chinese President Hu Jintao's administration has boosted the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) control over the judiciary, a move designed to enhance Beijing's ability to maintain stability and to crack down on dissent. More powers
More than 20 laid-off workers of a state-owned enterprise in Guiyang City (the provincial capital of Guizhou, located in southwestern China) attempted suicide on Saturday, June 27, by swallowing ag...
There were many good mothers in ancient China who paid special attention to their children's education. The following are inspirational stories of two mothers who taught their children to be pu...
CHINA-Earthquake parents from Beichuan delivered a petition letter to the Sichuan provincial appeals department on July 2, to request an answer as to who should be held for responsible for the "Tof...
Private equity market in China kept expanding in the second quarter, with the total value of 33 disclosed projects reaching 2.56 billion U.S. dollars, up 10.7 percent against the first quarter. The 33 private equity investments were ...
Beijing's tourism authorities have said they are going to target visitors from other Asian countries as guests of the city's homestay scheme for the Olympics. The city has already selected 571 families and hopes to have about 600 ho ...
The Kenyan government has stepped up campaigns to woo Chinese investors so as to benefit from the one billion U.S. dollar China-Africa Development Fund. A local daily, Saturday Nation, reported that the business scope of the fund ma ...
