An additional first-hand account of the Sichuan quake from a English-language Chengdu blogger, KMM. "But even though I’m convinced staying in the fifth floor of my apartment is perfectly safe, I’ve moved back outside, sitting in the grass, because damn it when the floor keeps moving under your feet, it doesn’t matter how much you know your safe, you still feel you better get out as fast as possible."
I was happy to come across today’s China Daily article reporting some immediate health benefits from the May 1 smoking ban that I mentioned in my prior post . Though perhaps not the type that immediately comes to mind, we’ll take what we can get.
I was just sitting here ready to write a post when our whole building started to sway, I thought it was a case of vertigo until the pictures started to sway. Outside what I found most strange was that some construction workers remained on the cranes and continued working.
Beijing is calling upon its citizens to report Olympic logo infringements paying the tattle tail part of the fine. Most unauthorized vendors will not likely be able to afford the fine. The incentive will work much better if the reward is paid regardless of whether the fine is actually collected.
That’s right, Tencent publicly notes its expertise in… whistle blowing.
Although the title is a little misleading (I would state that it is about international assumptions made on both sides), I still think this is a must view to really understand the situation over Olympic protests.
Like visitors at George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon, Va., people come to Shaoshan in the heart of China to remember and teach their children about their national hero. He launched the Long March, an estimated 3,750-mile epic exploit as central to the story of China as the Boston Tea Party
I think the 2015 number is built on a number that heavily favors anyone who wants to make grand declarations about China catching up quickly. In fact, last I remember, when Rich Brubaker at All Roads posted that China would catch up by 2028, we all took that number with quite a bit of skepticism.
A Q&A with acclaimed documentarian Tan Siok Siok about her new film Boomtown Beijing - a film that captures the Chinese capital the summer before the Olympics. Be sure to also check out the film's trailer and links.
While we in the West think of Oreos as round with a sweet white filling, Chinese think of a four-layered rectangular bar filled with vanilla and chocolate cream covered in chocolate.
A young university graduate who was working as an official in a village outside Beijing has gone missing. Many graduates are motivated to work in the countryside because of economic reasons and the chance to get a Beijing hukou.
When they arrived into the Guangzhou station from the HK Train, they were told that their visa would have to be canceled and they would be on their last 30 day stay and they would have to go back home to get an extension or a new visa!
