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Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-13
A TEAM of 81 Chinese lawyers has written to auction giant Christie's
in an effort to stop the sale of two bronze relics that were looted
from an old Beijing palace. The two artifacts, the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911)...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-13
FAN Fuzhong scoops up a handful of soil from his wheat field and lets the gray dust sift between his fingers.
"I've never seen such a severe drought. Some seedlings are yellow and some are dead," says the 37-year-old...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-12
AS the US$825 billion stimulus bill that contains the "Buy American"
provision winds its way through the US Congress, its reverberations can
be felt all over the world. The clause, which requires only
American-made...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-12
PEOPLE'S Daily Website, Xinhua, and even China Central Television
(CCTV), which has been blamed for the blaze that destroyed its new
complex Monday night, failed to issue the first headline on the
breaking news.
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Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-11
WITH the Chinese government pinning its hopes for economic
resurgence on stronger rural demand, the swelling ranks of jobless
migrant workers are making it much tougher. Chen Zhiwei is leaving home
in southwest...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-10
CHINA has continued to prosper over the last 30 years of reform and opening-up, for sure.
In Beijing, Shanghai and many other Chinese cities, material wealth is no less impressive than in most other cities in the...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-10
FROM March to September last year, 48-year-old Li Guizhi paid five
unannounced visits to the jail in Liaoyuan City, northwestern Jilin
Province, asking detainees whether they had been tortured. She also
asked:...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-9
EMPLOYING China's vast number of migrant workers is of strategic
importance at a time when the country is facing the worst global
economic crisis since the 1930s. That around 20 million migrants are
jobless as...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-5
TO people in China's export bases like Guangdong Province, the
celebration of the Year of the Ox was not without some bitterness as
exports plunged. Yao Zhongwo's Sunrise Housewares, which produces
non-stick...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-2
THE current global financial crisis defies solutions by any single
country. The effects of earlier crisis were usually limited to several
countries or a region, however, this downturn developed from the
credit...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-2-2
CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to the European Union (EU)
headquarters in Brussels on Friday strengthened both sides' confidence
in developing ties. Wen visited at the invitation of the president of
the European...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-23
CHINESE officials, not usually known for star appeal, are being thrust into the spotlight on a Website catering to their "fans."
The Website is Fans Circle for Officials of the People's Republic of China (www....
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-23
I can hardly recall the last time I received a hongbao or red
envelope. Nor do I exactly remember how many 100-yuan (US$14.60) bills
were contained in the little red envelope handed to me by a relative.
All...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-22
HAVING an indigenous automobile manufacturing sector has long been
an important trademark of the government's industrial policy. This
sector can be classified into two camps: a group of home-grown
greenfield...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-21
TIBETAN legislators endorsed a bill Monday to designate March 28 as
annual Serfs Emancipation Day, to mark the date on which aboaut 1
million serfs in the region were freed 50 years ago. On March 28, 1959,
the...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-21
IN the global financial crisis, many a scholar in China is
advocating that the government distribute consumer vouchers to boost
sluggish domestic demand. Expanding China's domestic demand is
necessary, given the...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-20
TO kung fu movie fans, Bruce Lee is a resonant name. It's a pity
that Ip Man isn't. Until recently, mention of his name would probably
draw nothing but blank stares. Not any more. Thanks to the namesake
film...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-16
AS the 2009 Spring Festival approaches, getting a train ticket home
has again become the most pressing problem for many people in China,
especially migrant workers. Endless lines of people waiting in cold
weather...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-16
ARMED police joined regular patrol officers and police dogs sniffed around luggage offices and platforms for prohibited goods.
At first sight, the security at Beijing Railway station, China's busiest transport...
Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2009-1-15
I'M not a whiner, but I just can't stand people's obsession with owning a car, as well as their dangerous driving habits.
What really gets to me is that when so-called educated and successful people turn into...