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Daughter wanted ad in China draws 100-plus candidates
Tuesday January 16, 08:10 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - A retired Chinese couple have advertised for a "daughter" to look after them in place of their son who has emigrated to Canada -- and more than 100 candidates signed up to try their luck, a newspaper said on Tuesday. more
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Beijing was first settled around 1000BC by the Mongolians as a make-shift trading town. It was during the Warring States period that the Yan kingdom made it a capital city for the first time.
In 1215 Genghis Khan set fire to the city and killed mostly everyone. Having satisfied himself he promptly renamed the town Khanbaliq (the Khans town). Later from the Jin Dynasty onward, Beijing was to become the ultimate symbol of authority over the region and would almost continuously remain the capital up until today.
Beijing today, is the must see city of China. Beijing combines modernity with the ancient so as to facilitate your comfortable lodgings at say the Holiday Inn along with the desire to see the Great Wall, Summer Palace, Forbidden City, etc… Beijing is chalk full of ancient wonders and one could easily spend their entire trip in this city and come back for more.
In 2001, Beijing was awarded the Olympic Games to be held in 2008. Ever since Beijing has pushed hard to clean up its act. Most of the factories (if not all) have already been pushed out of the city limits and local officials are keeping a keen eye on air quality. In the end this should make for a much more enjoyable trip for visitors. So pack your bags and GoBeijing!
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Shi Pei Pu, Singer, Spy and ‘M. Butterfly’ Dies at 70- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:27:44 +0000From the New York Times: Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy whose sexually convoluted love affair with a French Embassy worker created one of the strangest cases in international espionage and was the inspiration for the Broadway show “M. Butterfly,” died in Paris on Tuesday. His death was announced to Agence France-Presse by an [...] |
Chinese Police Accused of Killing Suspect in Search of Confession- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:36:32 +0000The Guardian reports on the death of a suspect in police detention: Junior officers have claimed that a senior official told his men to “use violence to control violence” before they interrogated Wan. The official denied the allegation. Local press have also reported claims that heavy publicity surrounding the case – concerning the deaths of six people [...] |
Chinese Netizens Celebrate Green Dam Delay- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:28:53 +0000From the Chosun Ilbo: Many Internet users in China are celebrating after Beijing delayed implementing its order that Internet-blocking software be installed in all new computers. News of the delay turned a scheduled Internet boycott into an all-day celebration on Wednesday. Hundreds of opponents of the plan flowed in and out of a tucked-away restaurant in Beijing’s [...] |
China Considers Environmental Tax- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:41:12 +0000From Economic Observer Online: China has edged closer to levying an environmental tax on polluters, but remains divided over how to introduce the tax. Although the idea of reforming the system by which polluters are taxed was first proposed two years ago, it was fast-tracked in May, along with changes to resource and property tax, by the [...] |
US Names New Head Of De Facto Taiwan Embassy- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:33:44 +0000From AP: The United States on Thursday named a career diplomat with wide-ranging experience in East Asia to be the new head of its de facto embassy in Taiwan. The American Institute in Taiwan said William Stanton, currently the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in South Korea, will replace outgoing institute head Stephen Young in August. Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry [...] |
Is a China Stock Bubble Forming?- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:52:37 +0000From Time: When the outlandish stock-market events of 2009 are tallied up, the initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong of Chinese herbal shampoo maker Bawang International will be a standout. Within 10 minutes of the June 22 opening of the subscription period for shares, one local brokerage, Bright Smart Securities, was swamped with the equivalent [...] |
Ningxia to Spearhead Islamic Finance in China- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:44:48 +0000From Economic Observer Online: With encouragement from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is set to take the lead in trialling Islamic financial services in China. If the pilot project is successful, policy makers hope that Islamic financial services will gradually become available throughout North West China. Lu Suping, Chairman of the Bank of [...] |
Chinese Industry On More Solid Ground, Surveys Show- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:27:50 +0000From Reuters: China’s manufacturing sector extended a steady if unspectacular recovery in June, surveys released on Wednesday showed, adding to evidence across Asia that the regional economy is finally pulling out of a deep dive. “I believe the current recovery has been confirmed and can be sustained,” Fan Gang, an economist who advises the central bank, told [...] |
Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy March Draws Thousands- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:56:08 +0000Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched in Hong Kong to mark the 12th anniversary of the handover of the territory to the Chinese government. From the New York Times: The immediacy of democracy demands here has faded somewhat as Beijing officials have ruled out direct elections for the chief executive until 2017 and the legislature until 2020. The [...] |
Richard Bernstein: In Tehran, Shades of Tiananmen- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:24:50 +0000In the New York Times, Richard Bernstein is the latest to make the comparison between Tehran 2009 and Tiananmen 1989: The Chinese have succeeded in the 20 years since in suppressing public comment about the massacre, so that young people growing up in China today are taught only the official version: that the only people who [...] |
Photo: A boy plays on a moon gate in the Summer Palace, Beijing, by marcusuke- Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:10:33 +0000A boy plays on a moon gate in the Summer Palace, Beijing, by marcusuke © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
Zimbabwe Says China Is Giving It Loans- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:06:47 +0000From the New York Times: Defense Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, who ran Mr. Mugabe’s violent re-election campaign last year, was himself leading a delegation of officials from the governing party, ZANU-PF, in Beijing on Tuesday. An official in China’s Politburo assured the delegation that China’s longstanding policy of investing in Zimbabwe was unchanged. “We will encourage and facilitate [...] |
Te-Ping Chen: China’s Marlboro Country- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:02:46 +0000From the Slate: YUNXIAO, China—On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown streets, where motorcyclists wearing bamboo-frond hats vie for paying passengers in a riot of honking. A cheerful red banner in the city center exhorts citizens to develop the local economy. The [...] |
Chinese Surveys Show Manufacturing Expanding- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:51 +0000From AP, via the Washington Post: China’s manufacturing expanded in June, adding to signs the world’s third-largest economy is rebounding from the collapse in global trade, but few new jobs were created, according to two surveys released Wednesday. Brokerage CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets said its purchasing managers index rose to 51.8 from May’s 51.2 on a 100-point scale [...] |
Shishou Official Speaks Out About Riot- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:26:14 +0000“Breaking rank, Shishou official Liu Guolin discloses information regarding the Shishou riots, offering an insightful and critical analysis of the past week’s events.” From the China Election and Governance blog: A blog entry posted by an official in Shishou has shed more light on the recent events in Shishou city, Hubei province. The blog is maintained [...] |
Yang Guobin: “Green Dam” as a Case of Online Activism in China (With Videos)- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:54:08 +0000Yang Guobin, associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures of Barnard College writes on the Columbia University blog: The Green Dam policy indicates that there is still a surprising degree of bluntness in the exercise of state control over the Internet. In recent years, the Chinese government has demonstrated new levels of sophistication in affairs [...] |
Francesco Sisci: Hu Embarks on a Political Pilgrimage- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:41:09 +0000From the Asia Times Online: Next week, Hu Jintao starts an official visit to Italy, the first for a Chinese president in 10 years. As with his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, Hu will have a chance to look first-hand at what was for millennia - from the Magna Grecia in the south to the Roman Empire to [...] |
Photo: An apartment building that toppled over in Shanghai this week, by SONYFOTO- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:35:50 +0000An apartment building that toppled over in Shanghai this week, by SONYFOTO © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
Shanghai Authorities Hold 9 People after Apartment Building Tips Over, Order Safety Checks- Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:06:43 +0000Nine people have been detained as authorities investigation the collapse of a new apartment building in Shanghai. From AP: The incident Saturday killed one worker and was an embarrassment for Shanghai’s leaders as they prepare to showcase the city, one of China’s wealthiest and most modern, during the 2010 World Expo. Elsewhere, one man died after part [...] |
Josie Liu: Some Thoughts on China’s Environment- Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:56:37 +0000It is just sad that Chinese people are seeing their lands, lakes, forests—that is, the physical body of the country—being destroyed piece by piece due to relentless industrial development, lack of environmental regulation and blind pursuit of profits at the price of long term significance of environmental protection.People around the world praise the beauty of their motherland as the common reason for themselves, and others, to love their country. Sadly, it seems that Chinese people are running out of beautiful places to boast and appreciate. |