Tag Archives: Lhasa

40 million new poor

China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.

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The father of hybrid rice looks at grain stores

Empty grain stores; Update from Lhasa; Namibia complains about China; New Zealand free trade; China Eastern strike; Pearl Buck

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Olympic flame arrives in Beijing

The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing this morning

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Another fake South China tiger

A journalist in Pingjiang(平江), Hubei claimed that he had shot a video with a wild South China tiger appearing on it.

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Beijing — former Haidian District head charged with graft

The Beijing News on March 21: graft, Tibetan rioters and the suicide of a schoolgirl.

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Are you nuts? Coconuts are liquid!

The headline of today’s Yangcheng Evening News 羊城晚报 confirms recent poultry deaths were caused by bird flu.

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Tîbet: Chinese sources and foreign correspondents on the ground

A summary of first hand and translated sources about current events in Tîbet.

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Some photos from Woeser

Some translations and photographs from the recently closed blogs of Woeser (唯色).

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