Today's Links: Problematic liquor, price raises, a new world reserve currency, and a discussion on racial sensitivity in China

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  • Four dead, more than 10 sick after drinking liquor in Central China [Xinhua] "Problematic liquor in central China's Hubei Province had new victims, with one more died Tuesday night, bringing the death toll from three to four, local police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, more than 10 others have been hospitalized as of Wednesday morning, up from five Tuesday. These people drank bulk Baijiu, a grain alcohol, Monday and Tuesday in Wufeng County. Preliminary tests showed the alcohol they drank contained a larger than normal amount of methanol."
  • China raises gasoline, diesel prices [Xinhua] "China said it would raise benchmark retail prices of gasoline and diesel by 290 yuan (42.46 U.S. dollars) per ton and 180 yuan per ton, respectively, as of midnight Tuesday. It is the second oil price adjustment this year. The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, cut benchmark pump prices of gasoline and diesel by 140 yuan and 160 yuan per tonne, or 2 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively, on January 14."
  • China's top banker proposes new world reserve currency [The Raw Story] "In an essay published Monday, the head of China's central bank proposed a plan to displace the American dollar as the world's standard and replace it with a global reserve currency operated from the International Monetary Fund."
  • Students flog CVs in flagging market [China Daily] "In an unfortunate reversal of fortune, more than 70 percent of upcoming graduates have yet to secure a job. "Normally about 70 percent of graduates have job offers in March, but now the situation is completely upside down," Wu Xiaohui, senior campus recruitment consultant with Shanghai Foreign Service Co Ltd (SFSC), told China Daily yesterday."
  • Race and China: Touching a Nerve [Chinageeks] "Last Sunday, I logged into our website with no greater intent than writing a post of some kind so as to keep to our unofficial one post per day quota. Finding an image I interpreted as racist on several Chinese blogs, I decided to write about the picture and the larger issue behind it. I didn’t intend for it to be a huge issue, nor was it meant for a Chinese audience per se. I woke up the next morning to a bit of a firestorm. Page views were way up, thanks to links from Danwei, The Peking Duck, Chinayouren, Bendilaowai, Africans in China, and more. What was more surprising was that the original blogs I pulled the images from, Hecaitou and 不许联想, had also both responded to the post, and less than favorably."
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By Elaine Chow in on March 25, 2009 9:00 PM Comments 3 Likes Likes

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