The past 9 months may have been the most active
ever for China’s foreign policy. Besides China’s recent support of
an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on the government of Muammar
Qaddafi, and the country’s behind the scenes support for independence
to South Sudan, China has recently taken steps to increase trade and
investment along its most unstable borders, setting up a [...]
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Bloomberg News article from Michael Forsythe on China’s National People’s
Congress is making
waves today. Coming on the heels of the failed “Jasmine Revolution” in
China, the article seeks to show that the NPC is representative of the widening
income gap in China.
The richest 70 of the 2,987 members
have a combined wealth of 493.1 billion yuan ($75.1 billion), and [...]
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Watching highlights of the weekend’s football matches from the major European leagues in The Reggae Bar in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown.
Also, I suffered one of my embarrassing episodes of displacing the rogue cartilage in one of my knees, and having to adopt a kowtowing posture on the floor for several [...]
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Today we’ll be looking at how China’s influence is growing in Africa, and what might be a few of the positives coming from this relationship. This will be followed up tomorrow with the downsides (the bad), and the next day … Continue reading →
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Artist, curator, writer and documentary filmmaker Ou Ning.
In addition to being an artist, curator, writer, and director of the Shao Foundation, China’s cultural renaissance man Ou Ning is also an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. After making the experimental San Yuan Li 2003 with Cao Fei and other members of the [...]
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excerpt from here:“BEIJING – The public in China may not like most government websites, but hackers love them. Research shows that hackers tampered with 4,635 Chinese government websites in 2010, almost a 70 per cent increase in one year. Many did so to express their political or religious views, [...]
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A Chinese friend of mine just showed me a product that comes from a German manufacturer, or I should say it looks exactly like the product from the German manufacturer, but it’s not, well, it kind of is…. wtfOk, China respects no laws and Chinese have incredibly limited morals. [...]
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Reduced bus fares for Chengdu to Chongqing last week resulted in about 10 percent more passengers on the first day, reported Sichuan Online.
From 4 March, the single deck seats cost RMB88 each and the luxury double deck seat is priced at RMB78. At the same time, frequency of [...]
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Shopping Today
Uno Mall 富力天汇
The property on which Chengdu’s Uno Tianhui Mall opened late this November has, for the past decade, been a huge question mark in the minds of many city residents. Having sat dormant for nearly 20 years, the later of which with a partially completed building on [...]