Five US activists and an American graffiti artist were detained in Beijing on Tuesday after they displayed a †Free Tibet†banner near an Olympics venue, says a pro-Tibet group.
When the Olympics were awarded to Beijing, some had hopes the Games would bring with them an opening up of Chinese society. A poster plastered on Beijing streets suggests the opposite may have occurred.
Xinran Xue starts her novel with the words Sky Burial. The protagonist, a young female doctor named Shu Wen, was separated from her husband, also a physician, in the 1950s in China. The husband, Kejun, was drafted into the military
The Chinese pictograph å (shà n) is comprised of the ideogram ç¾ (yáng) and 言 (yán), where ç¾ signifies a sheep, and 言means "that which is spoken," or simply the noun "word."
When it comes to information on the internet about ecommerce solutions and eBay tips and tricks there's no shortage of it out there. Unfortunately, the level of B.S is usually doled out in equal measures. We thought we'd do our
For the National Post, Joshua Kurlantzick looks at how rural citizens are viewing the Olympics:Not surprisingly, for many of these rural dwellers the Games might be an interesting distraction on TV, rather than a source of major pride. "It is
From Los Angeles Times:Many Chinese investors had hoped the Olympics would give a boost to their nation's sagging stock market. So far, just the opposite has happened.The benchmark Shanghai composite index tumbled 5.3% on Monday, falling for the sixth time
From Wall Street Journal:China has set up a high-level task force to cope with its worst power shortage in four years, and a top energy official pledged that big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai won't be affected even as
For the Newsweek blog, Jonathan Ansfield writes about the "free-talk" roundtable discussion he participated in with editors from Global Times about Olympics coverage:More questions came up. Why were the foreign media "politicizing" the Games? In response it was pointed out
Jim Yardley, of the New York Times, reports that Chinese propaganda officials have ordered only sympathetic coverage of Liu Xiang:After Liu hobbled off the track, China's Internet was filled with comments that ranged from sympathetic to deeply suspicious, with some
From Reuters:China's huge state banks are poised to report strong profit growth for the first half in 2008, thanks to wider margins and strong fee income, but funding costs are expected to rise in the second half, eroding growth.Chinese lenders
Shanghai-based Xiaodi Zhang, product management executive at eBay and co-founder of HopStix, a new China travel review site for sharing about food and travel, writes on cnreviews.com:Why has Liu Xiang meant so much to the Chinese?The answer is clear. Liu
From ONI Blog:ONI compared data from the Olympics Main Press Center (MPC) to that from other locations in Beijing, compiling a snapshot of Internet filtering in China leading up to week 1 of the Olympics.Journalists' access is home accessFor each
From an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post:Despite China's rapid ascendancy, we must remember that the Chinese people are deeply suspicious of the intentions of foreigners; at the same time, they desperately wish to be included in the global community.
The Washington Post follows yet another potential protester whose application for a permit to demonstrate during the Olympics was denied. In this case, Hong Kong resident Wang Wenjin was told that if his application is approved, he will be allowed
