Stories about China from November, 2007
Hong Kong: Putonghua is a Chinese Language
Diumanpark pointed out that Putonghua is just one of the Chinese Languages. He criticized the Hong Kong government language policy for equalizing Putonghua as “The” Chinese languages and killing all the Chinese language diversity (zh).
Hong Kong: Live Report from IGF 2007
Charles Mok gives a live report from the Internet Governance Forum 2007.
China: Law PhD Sues Over Cuts to Lust, Caution
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI reports on the legal action by a law PhD student, Dong Yanbin, against UME International Cineplex and SARFT over the edited Mainland Chinese version of Lust, Caution.
China: Shenzhen Property Market Dropped for 40%?
Mrzhang criticized the local mainstream media report that the Shenzhen Property Market has dropped for 40%. In reality, the property market is still suffered from the bubbles (zh).
China: Recycled Condom
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reports on how condoms are recycled into hair bands.
China: Spicy Crayfish
Hegel Chong wrote the migration of Crayfish from Louisiana to Japan and then China (zh). Now it has become the most famous street food in major cities: spicy crayfish.
China: Who Will Farm the Land?
Joel Martinsen translated an article written by He Bing, a professor at China University of Politics and Law, about the problem of aging in China's agricultural sector.
China: Harmony Survey
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reports on the national harmony survey by East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST).
China: Art of Censorship
Zhao Mu criticizes the head of CCTV, Yang Wei Guang, who described censorship practice as art in handling with politics (zh).
China: Stock Market
Chong Nanhai from AQ weekly shows how the China stock market works by giving the Aeropace Communications Holding (600677) as an example [zh]. The stock price has been dropped from RMB34.72 in Oct 22 2007 because of the China space travel to RMB8.54 on Nov 8 2007.
Hong Kong and China: Blogger interviews
Sidekick from outblaze has put up two video clips on Tangos Chan and Jeremy Goldkorn's interviews.
China:The return of PetroChina
PetroChina, the lord of the companies returns to its hometown. Its IPO on Chinese stock market is an eye-catching performance. When the flourishing market hit the most profitable company in Asia, they sparkled out the greatest market value in the world.
China: The Controversial Low Poverty Rate
According to the poverty line of China Development Report 2007, the poverty rate of China, a home to 1.3 billion people, is only about 8% which is even much lower than U.S. whose poverty rate is 12.3% in 2006. Facing with the amazingly poverty rate, Chinese people own their own different opinions on the poverty issues.
China: Social Stability
Peijin Chen translated an article written by Sun Liping, a sociologist from Tsinghua University, on social stability.
China: Rule By Law or By Force?
Human rights activist Yu Mei-sun was arrested because he was involved in the preparation of Bao Zun-xin‘s funeral. Tei Liu criticized the brutal police action[zh] at indymediacn.
Taiwan: South Korea's Experience in China Trade
Michael Turton comments on The European Chamber of Commerce's criticism over Taiwan's trade policy. The Chamber chair suggested Taiwan to learn from South Korea's experience while the blogger wondered what exactly Taiwan should learn.
Hong Kong and China: Interview with Isaac Mao
Sidekick posts a video in the outblaze blog. The video is an interview with Isaac Mao on the concept of Chinese blogger conference.
China: Journalist Festival
Yesterday was the journalist festival. Zengying remembers the first time he shed tears in his journalist life. The incident about a child starving to death[zh].
China: University ID Check
In order to prevent outsiders from enjoying facilities in the university, several universities in Beijing started to check on students’ ID card when they are buying meals and entering lecture halls. Zeng Jin-yan criticized the bureaucratic attitude of the university management [zh].
China: University Students Buzzing with Green Activity
On China Dialogue, Peng Li writes “From energy efficiency to mitigating climate change, China’s students are looking for solutions. A lack of resources and experience, fundraising, management and publicity do present problems, and it is often difficult for groups to feel they have a lasting and wide-ranging impact. If they...
China: Standard of the white-collar
(Note: The Chinese Academy of Social Science has denied the publishment of the list, which under hot discussion for quite a few days proved to be faked) In Chinese concept, white-collar is related to a decent life and a desirable living style. How much have you got to earn to...
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