Category Archives: Internet

The China Daily has published a rather boring article on blogs in China. Much of it is about bloggers’ responses to the tsunami. The article includes this pearl of wisdom: [T]here is an East-West difference. In places like the US, … Continue reading →

The China Daily reports that sex-selective abortions are to be criminalized. According to Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, “the government takes it as an urgent task to correct the gender imbalance of … Continue reading →

Below is a roundup of girlie pics on the state-owned Xinhua News Agency’s website. All of the images appear to be scanned from magazines or ripped from other websites. Andy Lau’s ex-girlfriend Yu Ho-yun Supermodel Heidi Klum engaged to singer … Continue reading →

For the last few few days, state-owned news agency Xinhua has been reporting that China’s population would reach 1.3 billion on January 6. Today is January 6. So now Xinhua has a cute little photo story about China’s 1.3 billionth … Continue reading →

The Internet can be sublime. In the footsteps of Joseph Rock is a blog run by an Australian guy who has spent a lot of time walking and traveling in the mountains of Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet. This is how … Continue reading →

The Peking Duck blog says: It’s coming – the US conservative backlash against China. The post links to a piece on the conservative Weekly Standard’s website which makes this point: If the Bush administration is serious about preserving American hegemony, … Continue reading →

Completely off topic, but worth both serious thought and a giggle: Britain’s conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper has published an opinion piece by Bill Gates and Bono Demand a better deal for the poor of the world in 2005.

Lord Rees-Mogg, the editor of The Times (of London), declares: This is China’s century. America may believe it is still at the heart of events, but the future is being shaped on the margins… …Clearly, the United States is still … Continue reading →

Hong Kong based writer Joshua Samuel Brown has posted an impassioned plea for donations for tsunami aid here. Other tsunami aid resources are at Wikipedia’s excellent page here, and at The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog, (click here if … Continue reading →