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Cakes + photos + flamingoes = Luo Hong
(Photo credit: Luo Hong, via China Daily.) Chinese photographer Luo Hong was featured in the People’s Daily Online for no particular newsworthy reason other than that he is “hopelessly” in love with flamingoes and dedicated to saving the environment through his art. (See a gallery of his images at the China Daily site.) Flamingoes are [...]
‘China Dev Brief’ shut down
Breaking news, via The Wall Street Journal: “China Shutters Nonprofit Newsletter“ By Nicholas Zamiska July 11, 2007 HONG KONG — A widely read newsletter on Chinese development and human-rights issues has been shuttered after more than a decade by public security officials, according to the newsletter’s founder, amid what observers say may be heightened scrutiny [...]
asap: Beijing Olympics update
asap ’s reporter Nick Tatro speaks to Scott McDonald, news editor in Beijing, to talk about the status of the Beijing Olympics: China’s Olympics: a status check July 9, 2007 Here are some of the interesting topics they discuss: McDonald talks about how the construction of buildings and new transportation routes is pushing people out [...]
Hey, dissenters, China’s got its eyes on you
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that the Chinese government finally answered the demands of thousands of protestors in the coastal city Xiamen, located in Fujian province, by halting the construction of a 700 million pound chemicals plant. According to a translation on ESWN, the Haicang [...]
China, Blood Oil and Darfur
What do you know about the link between China and Darfur? And how might it affect your business? In June, through a unanimous vote , the U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution, urging China to stop selling arms to Sudan and to cut economic ties with the genocidal regime. Now it looks like [...]
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