China’s yuan is destined to become a global reserve currency rivaling the dollar and the euro, as the nation’s economic power increases the currency’s allure, said Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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I am not going to say which city, which restaurant, I don’t want to lose my job. But I want to talk about the current situation of the drainage oil (地沟油). I am working at this sizable restaurant as the head chef, so I know some information about this.
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If you paid close attention to the Two Conferences (NPC and CPPCC), you must know who Zhang Lu (张璐) is. She was the female translator for Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the meetings. Started just couple of days ago, her name was one of the most searched keywords on Google and Baidu. Was this accidental or inevitable?
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A sandstorm is something what you really don’t want to experience, especially if you are outside of your home. Sandstorms are common in China but you don’t see every day a city like Beijing hit with such weather.
Chinese capital, Beijing, today was covered with a sand because of a sandstorm that plagued northwestern China in the past few weeks.
read more »If a picture paints a thousand words, then these photos may well paint an era - an era into which the fibres of lives of many Hong Kongers were interwoven to leave behind a vibrant fabric of legacy.
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I’ve had 4 people call me about working with SRI or information about new jobs elsewhere, two people talked with me about starting their own companies and a couple others talk with me about networking for other work options. I also met in the airport a new couple just moving over to SZ for new jobs.
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Ah, the innocence and beauty of young love: our cold, rational hearts are always warmed a bit when we see couples walking around in the throes of their first fling. Relationships are a curious time for new lovers: trying to feel each other out, learning to love and be loved, and of course, actually learning how to make love.
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Follow the journey of a small hill in Xinjiang as it is turned into one of the few recognizable tourist attractions in Urumqi. Pictures start in the early 1900's before there were even any trees on the hill.
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While most of the world happily enjoys the Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months.
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After witnessing countless sports cars race down Chengdu’s streets, it’s official that the street racing global phenomenon, with it’s noisy exhaust pipes, colorful imagery and taste for danger, has finally broken into Chengdu.
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Scan the bare figures and China appears to be on the skids. Exports are plummeting, experts are slashing growth forecasts and unemployment could rise to its highest level since 1949, the year the People's Republic was founded. But if President Hu Jintao feels the heat, he isn't letting anyone see him sweat.
read more »Detailed explanation of the rather ridiculous process Chinese citizens need to go through in order to get a website registered...or licensed -- the details are a bit beyond me. MIIT gets more and more bizarre.
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From the article: It was an audio sort of evening last night as I got up to listening to several archived podcasts from Beijing’s recent Bookworm International Literary Festival (BILF), an engaging event which took place earlier this month (thanks to Derek Sandhaus of Earnshaw Books for the tip!) at The Bookworm.
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Lengthy interview with author Peter Hessler about his new book and his ongoing relationship with China. He also shares some photos from his travels.
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Not as good as Ask Alessandro, but a pretty detailed look at censorship on Chinese sites, particularly Douban. Good break from all the Google/focus on English language censorship in China.
read more »Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine.
![China Developing "Combustible Ice" as New Energy Source](http://www.haohaoreport.com/files/imagecache/story_thumb/stories/2010/03/methanehydra0.jpg "China Developing "Combustible Ice" as New Energy Source")
Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years. China discovered the large reserve of methane hydrate last September, and last week the Qinghai Province announced that it plans to allow researchers and energy companies to tap the energy source.
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According to Huang Youyi, CPCC member and director of the China International Publishing Group, the Chinese language is facing a new invasion: by the English language. Huang feels that no good can come of the popular use of English words and acronyms (such as GDP and CEO) in published Chinese articles and everyday conversations. He told China Daily:
read more »Anonymouse and helmeted, this man is a fighter who literally stands his ground. Waving a bloody red national flag in the air, he has made a statement from the broken edge of his nearly demolished apartment building. He may just be some disgruttled apartment owner who refuses to leave over an unacceptable resettlement scheme.
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If you think breastfeeding comes natural to a mama, think again. Mother and child have to learn how to move together and that takes some practice. I learn to navigate the path along with my wife in Chengdu.
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