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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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Photo: Winter swimming in Beijing, by Zhao Hua Xi Shi- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:15:07 +0000Winter swimming in Beijing, by Zhao Hua Xi Shi© Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags:Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
China CIC to Manage More of its Funds in House- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:55:34 +0000Reuters reports on the China Investment Corp, the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund:Lou Jiwei, the chairman of CIC, said the fund would steadily accelerate its overseas investments in 2010, the China Securities Journal reported, citing an article he published on Monday. It did not say where the article appeared. “As of now, most of CIC’s [...] |
China May Ban Dog Meat from Menus- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:34 +0000Al Jazeera reports on the proposed ban on eating dog meat: The Chinese government is considering taking meat from pet animals off menus across the country, raising concerns among dog farmers who have relied on the industry for generations. The draft proposal to ban dog and cat meat has drawn an angry outcry from regions where the [...] |
Chinese-born Engineer Gets 15 Years in Spying for China- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:54:28 +0000The Los Angeles Times reports on the sentencing of a Chinese-born aerospace engineer who worked in Southern California on charges of spying for China:U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana imposed a 188-month prison term on Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 73, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Orange. Carney declared that he could not [...] |
China Sentences Quake Activist to 5 Years? Jail- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:30:01 +0000Activist Tan Zuoren, who had been investigating the deaths of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being tried in August. From AP:Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan Zuoren was convicted of the charge Tuesday by the Chengdu Intermediate Court. Tan’s trial in August had concluded with [...] |
Liu Xiaobo: I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:26:34 +0000Writer Liu Xiaobo, one of the drafters of Charter 08, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on December 25, Christmas Day. On December 23, the day he was tried, Liu Xiaobo wrote a “final statement” which is being widely passed around online. CDT thanks David Kelly, Professor of China Studies, China Research Centre, University [...] |
Beijing Trains Elite Journalists to Boost Media Clout- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:29:42 +0000From the South China Morning Post, (registration required): In a bid to raise China’s voice on the world stage and compete with Western media, Beijing is planning to assign an elite team of 100 specially trained journalists to the staff of leading state-run media outlets. Under a programme that began last year, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the [...] |
Marc Ambinder: How The Hackers Took Google: A Theory- Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:56:27 +0000From the Atlantic Magazine: Fred Chang has a theory about how hackers affiliated with the Chinese government hacked into Google and at least two dozen other major American companies. Chang is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas — so we should listen to him. But he is also the former director [...] |
China Searches for 100 Tonnes of Melamine-tainted Milk- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:15:12 +0000Investigators are searching for 100 tons of milk that’s been tainted with melamine and remains on grocery shelves. From BBC:Two dairies were shut down at the weekend after they were found to be selling products using the powder, which should have been destroyed. The melamine had been added to milk to artificially boost protein levels. China Daily [...] |
Caixin (???): The Li Zhuang Case- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:03:12 +0000Caixin, Hu Shuli’s new publication, has produced an English-language page compiling information about the trial of lawyer Li Zhuang. From one article on the site:Li Zhuang, known as the lawyer formerly representing an alleged Chongqing gang leader, shocked court observers in the capitulation of his first sentence appeal. On February 2, Li stated to the judge [...] |
Liu Xingchen (???), County Police Chief: The ?Three Ones? Model of Intelligence Gathering- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:02:54 +0000A recent translation by CDT of an internal document by a local officer of the Domestic Security Department (DSD) revealed some of the working methods and mechanisms of China’s secret police work at the ground level. That document helped illustrate how extensive the human surveillance and intelligence-gathering networks and activities are throughout the Chinese [...] |
Photo: Chinese New Year Decorations in Shanghai, by 13Moya- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:59:42 +0000Chinese New Year Decorations in Shanghai, by 13Moya© Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags:Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh |
Fareed Zakaria: U.S.-China Growing Pains- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:48:17 +0000In the Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria writes that the recent tensions between China and the U.S. are merely political posturing. But he continues: …There are two trends that could take a manageable situation and make it something more worrisome. The first is a growing perception in China that it is no longer as reliant on the [...] |
Still Counting? 27 More Websites Opened in Xinjiang- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:29:03 +0000According to the Far West China blog, 27 more websites have been made accessible to netizens in Xinjiang, bringing the total number to 31:You might be getting tired of counting new sites being opened in Xinjiang as ?news?. I know I am. If, however, you?re waiting for a single day when Xinjiang will suddenly ?turn [...] |
Chongqing Example for Real Harmony- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:59:59 +0000An opinion piece in China Daily praises Bo Xilai’s anti-corruption campaign in Chongqing as an example of how to bring real harmony to Chinese society:A third-year student from the Southwestern University of Political Science and Law appealed to Chongqing leaders to intensify their efforts to eliminate the “dark and evil forces” and help society regain [...] |
China?s Fast Trains May Offer Tips for U.S.- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:41:42 +0000A new high speed train from Wuhan to Guangzhou goes at speeds up to 217 miles an hour. From USA Today:The Dec. 26 opening of the high-speed link between south Chinese cities Guangzhou and Wuhan is the latest example of massive state spending to keep China’s economy roaring. The fast-expanding network of high-speed trains is [...] |
China Shuts Down Largest Hacker Training Website- Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:13:57 +0000Three members of China’s largest hacker training website have been arrested and the site shut down, according to Reuters:The “Black Hawk Safety Net” website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported this weekend, citing police in Huanggang, just east [...] |
Slideshow: I Speak China- Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:10:54 +0000Photographer Adrian Fisk traveled across China and documented the thoughts and dreams of young Chinese he met. The results are posted as a slideshow on here. From the introduction:Inspired by the ebb and flow of cultures between East and West, Fisk travelled 12,500km across China, trying to answer questions of identity and belief in an [...] |
China Jails Man 13 Years for Running Porn Web Site- Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:03:53 +0000From AP:The court in the Guangdong province city of Jiangmen handed down the sentence to Huang Yizhong and fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600), the official Xinhua News Agency said. Huang pleaded guilty to charges of copying and spreading pornographic material on the Web site, which he ran since 2005 using a rented U.S. server, Xinhua said. [...] |
After the Summer Olympics, Empty Shells in Beijing- Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:39:43 +0000A year and a half after the Olympics in Beijing, the impressive structures built for the event are left without a purpose. From the New York Times:In 2008, the Chinese built a ball field ? boy, what a ball field ? known worldwide for its lattice-like architecture as the Bird?s Nest. Alas, after the 2008 [...] |