Tag Archives: Xiamen

Nine out of ten high school students in Xiamen have bad eyesight

Kids in Xiamen are apparently some of the unhealthiest in China. As the Haixia Daobao (海峡导报) from Xiamen reports today, nine out of every ten children in Xiamen have eyesight problems, two out of ten are obese, and rates of malnutrition and tooth … Continue reading

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Schools disagree on how best to cover a book

It’s the start of a new semester and the debate over book covers is in the news once again.

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A giant tripod for Yinchuan

Ningxia Daily (宁夏日报): Central government sent Ningxia autonomous region a giant pot named “solidarity of all ethnic groups” to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

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Danwei Picks: another sort of PX protest

MLB to come to China; PX workers protest the plant move; Gan Xiao’er’s religious film-making.

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Seventy years after the Great Purge

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) has a cover feature on the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s Great Purge, and a report on Burma’s Shan State (掸邦) and Yawd Serk (约色).

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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-02

Fi Jianfeng on organized crime in Tangshan, Gillian Gibbons to come to China, and Jonathan Ansfield looks at the players in the Xiamen PX affair.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-21

SCMP gets bought out, Washington Monthly looks at Yangtze River water use, and Southern Weekly goes behind the scenes of the PX public hearings.

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Citizens air opinions on the Xiamen PX project

A hearing in Xiamen for the Xianglu PX project (翔鹭石化) brings out opposition voices.

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Xiamen to kill off anonymous posting

Xiamen releases Measures to fight unhealthy and harmful information on the Internet (厦门市互联网有害信息和不良信息管理和处置办法). It includes a ban on anonymous posting.

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Official media on popular opinion in the Xiamen PX affair

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) weighs in on the use of SMS and online media in the Xiamen PX case.

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