A little light relief from the poisoned babies, mudslides and collapsing banks. Apparrently, one of these guys even tried chewing on a piece of the rock to figure out what it was. The real questionis, who sold it to them?
Shoppers accidentally buy nuclear waste
Three residents of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region’s Aksu city
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The American Chamber of Commerce in China has published letters from the two U.S. presidential candidates on how they would approach relations with China. There are no huge surprises, though the McCain letter has a pretty hard edge, particularly when it comes to human rights. Obama’s as you might expect, is more considered and softer in …
Here’s McCain:
US-China Policy Under a McCain Administration
By Senator John McCain
The resurgence of Asia is one of the epochal events of our time. It is a renaissance that is not only transforming the face of this vast region, but throwing open new opportunities for billions of people on both sides of the Pacific—Americans and
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China’s official Xinhua News Agency announced September 14 that the governor of Shanxi province, Meng Xuenong, had resigned from his post along with his deputy following the deaths of over 250 people in a mudlside. You can see more details on the mudslide here, but it’s pretty clear that it was caused by sloppy enforcement of mining …
From my colleague Lin Yang, a look at the latest tainted food scandal to hit China:
The disclosure in a Chinese newspaper last week that kidney stones among babies may have been caused by tainted milk powder has touched off a wave of finger pointing and an eerie since of deja vu. Hundreds of sick babies and at least one death have been
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Lin Yang on a story from southern China’s Guangdong province:
A Mr. Li in Dongguan city, Guangdong province, caught a 3 kg “rat” eight years ago in the woods and brought it home to keep as a pet, the Guangzhou Daily reported today. The beast is a “specie of rat rarely seen in the south,” Mr. Li told the paper. After years of
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From time.com, our story on what influence the Paralympics are having on China, and also a gallery of photos from the events.
On the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Coca-Cola, an official Olympics sponsor, has made a $2.4 billion offer to acquire Huiyuan, China’s biggest fruit juice company. Since the bid was announced last week, the Chinese blogosphere has been buzzing. Critics are angry that one of China’s top brands might fall into the hands of a foreign …
From Lin Yang:
It is hard to imagine Chinese state leaders embraced by fanatic fans like movie stars and pop icons. From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese president was to be admired and worshiped from a distance. But the “assorted eight treasures rice pudding” is changing it all.
Combining one character from each of the names
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Here’s our piece on the Sept. 7 legislative elections in Hong Kong that saw a big win by pro-Beijing populists, a loss for the city’s biggest pro-business party, and a smaller-than-expected setback for parties pushing for faster democratization. It was the economy, not political reform, that seemed to be the deciding issue in the race.
Just as the Paralympics fill Beijing with a growing appreciation for the rights and talents of the disabled, the China Daily announced rather depressingly that just one of the orphans from the Sichuan earthquake has been adopted. “One reason for the slow response is that many of the orphans are handicapped,” the newspaper reported. Most …
Watched the opening ceremony for the Paralympics lat night. (I looked for a clip to link to but it doesn’t seem to be up on youtube yet). It was a good show, solid and not obviously as flashy as the Olympics version. But it was really moving to see the disabled athletes carrying the torch. And the torch lighting was amazing. A wheelchair …
A recent environmental protest in Beijing has won an official apology from city authorities. On Aug. 30 dozens of people in Beijing’s eastern Chaoyang district demonstrated against a landfill that they said was polluting the air and depressing property values.
The past two years have seen a number of high-profile environmental …
