Category Archives: Internet

The website Persian Journal reports: Tehran and Beijing air liners to open direct flight links between the two metropolitan cities, after the two sides laid out plans to declare the two cities as sister. Chinese companies plan a high-profile contribution … Continue reading →

To observant Jews, this week is Passover or Pesach, which is a celebration of the Jewish people’s escape from slavery in Egypt, mixed up with some Spring Festival-type seasonal fun. Here then, some Sino-Jewish links: The Sino-Judaic Institute – a … Continue reading →

Pan Shiyi (潘石屹) and Zhang Xin(张欣) are the husband and wife team who control SOHO China, a real estate development company that has been pushing the architectural envelope in Beijing by hiring high-profile foreign architects to design their apartment buildings. … Continue reading →

Superstitious beliefs and practices, “spritual pollution” and porn were once targets of the Communist Party’s humorless thought police. How things have changed: the photo on the left is from a gallery of astrological body paintings published on state-owned news agency … Continue reading →

State-owned news agency Xinhua has obviously been instructed to publish some gentler words about Japan to cool everyone’s passions, judging from two articles published on their website today: Koizumi speaks in Jakarta: expresses deep introspection and apologies (in Chinese; there’s … Continue reading →

Scientists at the Ha’erbin Institute of Technology have produced a little electronic beast that they are calling China’s first robot with facial expressions, with all-Chinese intellectual property behind the technology. The little monster robot, named Smart Star (百智星), is apparently … Continue reading →

State-owned news agency Xinhua just keeps on coming up with the goods: they have published a massive album of photos from the 2005 Miss Universe China qualifying competition.