A balanced, comprehensive, and persuasive account of the recent riots and protests. Plus a review of Pico Iyer's recent book on the Dalai Lama.
The Audrey Underwear Company in Taizhong City, Taiwan, named November 21 “Camisole Day” in order celebrate record sales. Much to the delight of their male employees, all 500 female employees were encouraged to wear lingerie to work to celebrate.
At the same time, the big private equity players are increasingly scouring the globe for investment opportunities, said Paul Schnell, a partner in the U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions group at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
It's clear, from a covert trip deep into Tibet, that the protests spread across a larger area in traditional Tibet than is sometimes realized. This was a popular uprising against Chinese rule and the region is still seething.
A 3-year-old girl in Beichuan, one of the counties that suffered the most from Monday's earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, has magically survived under the dead bodies of her parents. Song Xinyi's legs were seriously injured under the weight of her parents and many layers of rubble, but she could still talk when rescuers pulled her out after more than 40 hours. She explained the 3 Chinese characters that made up her name, and t
Harrowing stories from the frontline of the earthquake disaster zone.
A new report out by Canadian group Probe International is questioning whether the Sichuan quake may be the result of the filling of the Three Gorges Dam. Wait, before you shake your head at the "Western bias" - they've Chinese scientists on this too. Since initially filling the dam there has been a couple thousand micro-quakes, and that it rests on a couple fault lines makes one have to at least consider there might be consequences of some so
The New York Times (via CDT) describes how many people in China have been incensed by jubilant celebrations of the Olympics Torch relay in Fujian Province.
It seems rather futile blogging about other issues in light of the fact that thousands of people still left buried by the Earthquake in Sichuan. The death toll now exceeds 12,000 and is sure to increase. The Olympics seem relatively trivial.
Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang has begun is season as he means to continue it in Beijing, with a gold medal.
Liu said: “I’ve always started my season strongly in Osaka so I hope this will be a good omen.”
Green Bamboo gives an eyewitness account of the Wenchuan earthquake, saying that Chengdu seems to be intact.
Asia American Multi-Technology Association (AAMA) Dinner in Silicon Valley. Advice from Chinese (either from mainland China or Taiwan) in Silicon Valley considering going to China to startup their next company on 1) how to start, 2) What are the perceptions of returnees going back to China.
Wild China, the joint venture between the BBC and CCTV aired earlier this evening on BBC 2, and it was spectacular!
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