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 | "Soul Brother Number New" Carlton J. Smith will be crooning his soulful sounds at the Shanghaiist + Boxing Cat Brewery July 4 Party. Where: 82 Fuxing Xi Lu near Yongfu Lu (复兴西路82号) Starts: Saturday, July 4 Cover: 50 RMB includes a drink For more local events, visit the Shanghaiist Calendar. This coming Saturday, July 4th, Carlton J. Smith will help us celebrate the United States' 233rd birthday by performing at the Boxing Cat... (Shanghaiist, 2009-07-03 06:30:00) |
| So despite the U.S. promising to be at Expo 2010 and Hillary Clinton allegedly confirming its participation, Shanghai World Expo organizers still haven't actually received the letter of confirmation, according to Xinhua. It's only when this letter gets into the Shanghai World Expo's very eager hands that a country's pavilion is truly confirmed, apparently a completely different matter than whether someone has been appointed as Commission General of the pavilion. So why did the U.S. Secretary of... (Shanghaiist, 2009-07-03 06:00:00) |
 | Asian telecoms PCCW Global and Tata Communications have formally launched the TGN-Intra Asia Cable System (TGN-IA), linking Japan with Singapore via Hong Kong. The launch… (Japan Today, 2009-07-03 05:07:00) |
| Woah! Is the Shanghai Disneyland idea back on? A Disney news site reports that Bob Weis, Exec VP of Walt Disney Imagineering may have been hired as the creative lead for the "in-development" Shanghai Disneyland Resort. [AWN] An exhibition about Cartoon Games is starting on the 4th at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (that building across the street from the Portman). We're curious and entry's only 50RMB! [Xinmin] Oh no, signs the recession still isn't completely over! Rental prices for... (Shanghaiist, 2009-07-03 05:00:00) |
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&$Linda Rosen (L) talks to a student from the Second Primary School of Chengguan District in Lhasa, Tibet. (CRI online Photo)&$&$
Dictation by Linda Rosen; Text by Sun Yang
We had a very busy day today (Thursday), visiting a lot of places in Lhasa.
The highlight of today's visit must be the Potala Palace. People always associated the famous building with Tibet and the culture and people there. It's th ... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 04:04:13) |
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| About 80 newborn baby girls from a county of Guizhou Province in southwest China have been removed from their families by local officials since 2001, and most have been handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each, the Southern Metropolis News reported on Wednesday.
Among the 80 families are Lu Xiande and Yang Shuiying, a poor farming couple whose fifth daughter was removed by local family planning officials when they didn't pay the appropriate fine, it... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 03:41:13) |
| People who coerce or cajole children into becoming beggars will be the focus of a nationwide crime fighting campaign by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), a senior official told the Global Times today.
Chen Shiqu, head of the ministry's Office Against Human Trafficking, said public security departments nationwide will "do all they can" to bring justice to those who force youngsters into lives of crime.
"Many of these children are tortured by their bosses, so we're working with the... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 03:29:55) |
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&$Farmers are busy harvesting the Chinese wolfberry fruits in Zhongning County of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China, July 2, 2009. More than 12,000 hectares of Chinese wolfberry are in the harvest season in Zhongning County. Ningxia is a leading production base of Chinese wolfberry, which has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine or as a tonic element. (Xinhua Photo)&$&$&$ (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 03:19:03) |
| Allegations that a Chongqing district government spent 60 million yuan ($8.7 million) on cars over three years has provoked outrage online.
The budget of the unnamed district government was recently leaked on the Internet.
The data shows that 16.9 million yuan was spent on cars and maintenance in 2006, 20.9 million yuan in 2007 and 22.8 million yuan in 2008.
The budget said it would cut spending on vehicle purchases and maintenance, official's reception cost, utility and gas bills... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:44:31) |
 | A STUDENT who achieved the highest score in this year's national college entrance exam in Chongqing Municipality will lose a chance to enter his dream school this year because his family lied about his ethnicity to... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-03 02:42:58) |
| THE US government's appointment of a commissioner general for the 2010 World Expo and remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly indicated that the country would attend the 2010 event.
But the Shanghai... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-03 02:42:02) |
| Shanghai World Expo organizers haven't received a letter of confirmation from the United States on its participation in and the appointment of a commissioner general to the 2010 event.
Countries and organizations are only regarded as attending the World Expo when the host receives official confirmation, according to the International Exhibition Bureau.
So far, 191 countries and 48 international organizations have confirmed their participation, said the Bureau of Shanghai World... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:41:41) |
| THE most intense storm of the summer lashed Shanghai with heavy rain and hail yesterday afternoon, canceling flights and ferries and flooding streets and homes.
An "orange" alert was declared, the second highest... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-03 02:41:30) |
| The developer of a planned chemical plant in Maoming, Guangdong province, has received strong protests from nearby residents who say the plant will cause pollution and health problems in their neighborhoods.
The feedback came after the company publicized a notice on June 4 to seek public opinions to be included in an environmental impact assessment.
Plans call for the Maoming paraxylene (PX) project to be built within the Maoming Oil Refinery Plant.
"The site of the PX project is... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:39:57) |
| With the goal of building Shanghai into a world-class financial hub, the central government is showing renewed interest in inviting foreign-funded firms to be listed in the country.
Deputy commerce minister Chen Jian said yesterday that his ministry will continue to work with other Cabinet departments on policies regarding domestic IPOs of foreign firms to "actively guide high-quality foreign firms to go public in China".
The government said as early as November 2001 that it might allow... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:39:28) |
| About 80 newborn baby girls from a Guizhou county have been removed from their families by officials since 2001, and most have been handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each, the Southern Metropolis News reported on Wednesday.
Among the 80 families are Lu Xiande and Yang Shuiying, a poor farming couple whose fifth daughter was removed by local family planning officials when they didn't pay the appropriate fine, it reported.
Like every other father in... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:37:37) |
| The wife of a man who died after 17 hours of alleged torture in detention is fighting to clear her husband's name and wants the police officers accused of the death behind bars.
Wan Jianguo, a 43-year-old medical company salesman, died on Aug 8 last year after investigators from the Nanchang municipal police bureau of Jiangxi province interrogated him about the deaths of six patients at a hospital in Nanchang.
Wan, according to authorities, was linked to the deaths because the company he... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:29:49) |
| China's global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, a navigation industry insider said yesterday.
China aims to make Compass a navigation satellite system of 35 satellites by 2020, which can offer global service.
Compass, or Beidou (Big Dipper) in Chinese, is expected to rival the US-developed GPS, the EU's GPS and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System, earlier reports said.
Officials representing... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:27:51) |
| China would like to see a diversification of the international currency system in the future and believes it would be "normal" if the issue came up at the "8+5 summit" involving the Group of Eight (G8) and emerging powers, Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei said Thursday.
But He, who is in charge of China's G8 meeting preparations, said he was not aware of Beijing asking for a discussion of reserve currencies at the high-level meetings in Italy.
He was responding to a Reuters report... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:23:56) |
| China's global navigation satellite system, Compass, will provide regional service in 2011 with a constellation of 12 satellites, a navigation industry insider was quoted as saying on Thursday.
China aims to make Compass a navigation satellite system of 35 satellites by 2020, which can offer global service, the China Daily reported Friday.
Compass, or Beidou (Big Dipper) in Chinese, is expected to rival the US-developed GPS, the EU's GPS and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
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| THE blaze that engulfed a crowded transit bus in southwest China's Sichuan Province in early June killing 27 people was set by a man who was angry at his family and had threatened suicide, police said yesterday.
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| Nine people were confirmed dead and 15 others injured after a passenger bus collided into a parked truck Thursday in north China's Hebei Province, local police said.
The accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. on a highway in Xianxian County. Two were killed at the scene and seven died at the hospital. Another 15 were injured.
The 28-seat bus was carrying 25 passengers.
Local police is investigating the cause of the accident.
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| The management of a Hebei detention center is being investigated after two prisoners died and another was severely injured by a jailhouse bully.
The provincial-level investigation was launched after the family of the bullied man went to authorities to complain about the way he had been treated at the Zanhuang detention center.
Su Zhengjun, of Hebei province public security bureau, said two mysterious deaths happened at the center in 2007.
Previous to that, Qin Yingwei, from Dongjie,... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:13:59) |
| A total of 204 university students in northwest China's Shaanxi Province have recovered from diarrhea caused by unknown reasons as of Thursday.
The students at the Weishui campus of Chang'an University in Xi'an, the provincial capital, had fallen ill with diarrhea, headache and nausea since late June, sources with the university said.
Most of the cases, scattered across the campus, have recovered shortly after medical treatment. Only 21 are still receiving medical treatment.
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| Ninety-seven primary school students in north China's Hebei Province have fallen ill in a suspected food poisoning case, local government sources said Thursday.
The students in Yulong Bilingual Primary School in Dingzhou City started to show symptoms of fever and vomiting on June 29.
Eight of all nine hospitalized have been discharged from hospital by Thursday night.
Local health authorities have ruled out initially the possibility of A/H1N1 flu virus infection. Further... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:13:29) |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao's forthcoming visit to Italy ahead of the G8 summit paves the way for stronger bilateral ties, an Italian expert told Xinhua in an interview.
Luca La Bella, a China analyst with Rome's International Studies Center, said that in the past decades, political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China have improved. "Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Italy will reinforce this strategic collaboration," he said.
Hu will attend a meeting... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:10:49) |
| Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang on Thursday called for technical upgrades to enhance workplace safety and improve emergency rescue systems.
When visiting an exhibition on workplace safety and emergency rescue equipment held by the State Administration of Work Safety, Zhang pointed out that workplace safety is closely related to the interests of the people and the country.
China has kept increasing spending on technical improvements to better workplace safety with advanced... (People's Daily, 2009-07-03 02:07:54) |
| JING'AN Villa, a 77-year-old neighborhood in downtown Jing'an District, will be restored to its original condition by the end of this year, the district government has said.
The district will restore facades,... (Shanghai Daily, 2009-07-03 02:06:59) |
Chinese chukkas (BBC NEWS) How polo enthrals Shanghai's moneyed class
Business › Many Chinese seek Japanese celebrity names as trademarks for business (Japan Today) The names of Japanese celebrities, such as pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki, have been registered as trademarks in China by businesspeople trying to take advantage of…
China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story (The New York Review of Books) “If the Mafia boss thinks you might betray him, he will just kill you or throw you into prison.” That is not how the government of China should behave...
We're Not Selfish, They Are (Daai Tou Laam Diary) We're willing to pour billions and billions of our and their dollars in overruns to build transit links to ensure our commutes from pricey south island is fast and efficient. We've even cut the taxi fares for our weekend trips out to Sai Kung to eat seafood or travel home to Sai Kung/Clearwater Bay after those late nights in Lan Kwai Fong/Wan Chai. We've raised their transit fees twice in the last three years and dragged our feet since the last Central reclamation on spending...
Desertification worsening in Tibet: Report (Phayul) Desertification is worsening in Tibet, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. According to the report, authorities in Tibet aim to halt the spread of the desert in Tibet by next year, hoping to stem the effects of years of mining, tree-felling and
Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable to Intrusion (New York Times) The program would let outsiders monitor a computer’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses, according to those who have examined it.
The Day China's Heart Froze (newmatilda.com) Twenty years ago today, thousands were being killed in the streets around Tiananmen Square. Dan Edwards in Beijing speaks to survivors about a wound that hasn't healed
Founding fathers (BBC NEWS) The French town with an unlikely Chinese past
China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy? (Dissent Magazine) How can one know whether China will or will not democratize? In general, as Karl Popper showed in The Poverty of Historicism, political futures in even the middle distance are unknowable because of the inherently uncertain and contingent dynamics of politics. Therefore, an analyst should focus on the multiple factors that make different futures more or less likely.
The Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global (Mother Jones) Westbound on the eastbound Beijing expressway long before Mr. Zhang's crowning highway maneuver, I'd realized that his flamboyant unpredictability was an asset. I'd hired him as driver and guide for a three-day trip from Beijing to Inner Mongolia on the recommendation of a Chinese environmentalist who'd enumerated all of Mr. Zhang's virtues except the most important his suppleness under pressure, which would enable us to overcome the obstacles that are a constant feature of travel in China.
The Last Visitor (Dissent Magazine) Beijing is an international city, but my neighborhood isn't. I live in the far northwest part of the city, outside the fifth ring road, and in three years here I've seen a grand total of two other foreigners. I moved to this corner with my Chinese family because the air is better and there's more of a community feel to the place. My walks through the nearby migrant worker districts serve as a reminder that China's economic miracle has yet to extend to the bulk of the population.
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