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Today's Links: E-waste, socialist engineering and the capitalist fight against pollution?


  • China chokes on e-waste

    Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals.



  • Giant pandas 'expanding habitat' in China

    Researchers in China say they have seen encouraging signs of an increase in giant panda numbers in the country's largest panda reserve.



  • As concerns over quality mount, China faces obstacles

    Wang Wenlong knew he wasn't going to get top quality when he plunked down $4,700 for a locally made car. But he didn't expect so many problems from his Xiali subcompact -- from windows that refused to open to windshield wipers that wouldn't wipe.



  • China awaits environ study before upgrading road to Everest-China-World-The Times of India

    Responding to global concerns, including that from India, China has decided to seek an environmental study on its controversial plan to upgrade an existing road to Nepal and Mt Everest in the fragile Himalayan region of Tibet.



  • China moves to change damaged global image

    After years of being accused by Western nations of making only token gestures to fight fake goods and months of complaints about the safety of its exports, China is taking extraordinary steps to change its image.



  • Tibet is remade by hand of Chinese government

    In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages,".


  • The capitalist fight against pollution?
    The State Environmental Protection Administration is working with the banking authorities to identify companies that fail pollution checks or bypass environmental assessments for new projects and to restrict their access to fresh credit.


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    By Kenneth Tan in on July 31, 2007 2:21 PM

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    Today's Links: Jaywalking, smoking and cheap domains


  • Tech Flocks To Shanghai

    "According to a report from Russell Reynolds Associates based on Shanghai government statistics, 144 foreign companies now have their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, 48 of which established operations there only in the last year."



  • City traffic police tougher on jaywalking

    "Besides receiving a verbal reminder of the violation, jaywalkers and cyclists will be fined between five yuan to 50 yuan, depending on their behavior and attitude."



  • Shanghai Surprise

    "If you thought the Shanghai index's 8.8% drop in late February was bad, wait until a bunch of rickety Chinese companies collapse."



  • Shanghai's Boutique Hotels And Couture Alleys

    "This Sunday, Yang checks in and checks out a number of Shanghai boutique hotels. How do we know this? We're the suckers who subscribe to Times Select."



  • More pollution control in China

    "The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s environment watchdog, will spend 2 billion yuan (US$250 million) to set up new pollution statistics, monitoring and accountability systems within 18 months."



  • Chinese Domain Name Registration Fees Drop To Almost Free

    "[T]he State Council Informatization Office, Information Office of the State Council and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Internet Network Information Center has announced that all .CN domains can now be purchased for only one yuan."



  • Google, Baidu race to set up online library in China

    "Web search leader Google and its top rival in China Baidu.com are racing to build out their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world's second-largest Internet market."



  • Smoking ban threatens China

    "Smoking harms people's health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability," said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. "Smokers rioted when the former Soviet Union collapsed because they could not get any cigarettes. ... The principle applies in China as well."



  • Major Music Companies Sue Yahoo! China

    "Led by industry group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the corporations, including EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music, and Universal Music, are suing Yahoo! China for an estimated 5.5 million yuan in damages."



  • China's Dog Extermination Plan Condemned

    "The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International said in a statement that a vaccination campaign would be a better way to control rabies."



  • China axes foreigners’ tax breaks

    "China ended almost 30 years of favourable treatment for foreign companies on Thursday with the introduction of a measure to equalise corporate tax rates paid by local and overseas enterprises."



  • How To Get Free Product From China: Just Don't Pay

    "There are countless stories out there (including in this blog) of foreign companies sending money off to China for product that never comes. This article is essentially the reverse: Chinese companies shipping product overseas and then never getting paid."



  • Tibetan exiles to protest Chinese rule via 'net video, March 10

    "Videos already uploaded include pilgrims, rap songs, statements from monks, rants from young Tibetan exiles in the United States, and words from ama-la (grandmas). Looks like the revolution(s) will be televised after all."



  • A slow-boiled frog

    "Taiwan may rejoin China peacefully within 20 years"



  • McKinsey Survey on China

    "An interesting survey just out from McKinsey on how executives in Asia perceive the China market. I'm amazed that only 30 per cent of the respondents' companies have operations in China."



  • Letter From China: In Asia, the past divides and alienates

    "Imagine a world where Germany denied the Holocaust, the United States denied the slaughter of Native Americans and Europe denied organizing its immensely profitable and centuries-long trans-Atlantic trade in African slaves."



  • China cracks down on 'virtual money'

    "Regulators have ordered Chinese websites to limit the use of 'virtual money' after concerns that the online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade."



  • Shanghai leads in female cancer

    "The cancer rate among Shanghai's women almost doubled in the past 20 years and is the highest in the nation, health officials said yesterday."


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    By Dan Washburn in on March 10, 2007 1:23 AM

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    China fails to meet environmental goals

    The State Environmental Protection Agency said faster-than-expected economic growth meant that sulfur dioxide emissions increased by nearly 1.8 percent, or 463,000 tons, over the previous year, according to a report on its Web site. An even more damning report from Germany's magazine talks about how China's environmental failures are impacting the rest of the world.

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    By Peijin Chen in , on February 13, 2007 9:50 AM

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    Today's Links: iPhone, Best Buy and rumors

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    By Dan Washburn in on January 15, 2007 12:43 PM

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    Flying while (not) drunk

    Shanghaiist is sleepy. It's still February 15 where we are -- Honolulu, Hawaii --and we are entering the 42nd hour of a day that began in Shanghai and included an eight-hour layover in Tokyo. We didn't sleep at all on the plane, either. Likely because we weren't full of wine, as we usually are on Northwest Airlines international flights. You see, NWA has phased out free alcoholic beverage for economy passengers on international flights to Asia-Pacific (but not Europe or other international destinations ... huh?). When did this rule go into effect? According to a flight attendant -- February 15, 2006. What kind of shitty luck is that? Beer and wine are now US$5 a pop. Maybe worth a thought if they had any kind of selection ...

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    By Dan Washburn in , , on February 16, 2006 4:50 PM

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    China points finger at polluters

    When we first visited Dandong in Liaoning province, our heart kind of went out to the little North Korean kids swimming in the Yalu River. Now we really feel sorry for them. Dandong's Xinjulang Paper Factory has been pumping 12,000 tons of concentrated waste into that river every day. The State Environmental Protection Authority has told the plant to stop production. This is all part of China's effort to publicly shame its worst polluters "amid concerns that the country's environmental problems have become so serious they are undermining economic growth and social stability":

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    By Dan Washburn in , on February 9, 2006 10:03 PM

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    Say it ain't so: Super Voice Boys gets axed

    Following the sensational success of Super Voice Girls (Chaoji Nu Sheng or 超级女声), Hunan Province Satellite Television Station planned to organize another American Idol-style TV program called -- surprise, surprise -- Super Voice Boys (Chaoji Nan Sheng or 超级男声), the TV station announced the news to media cheerfully in early September. However, Xinhua reports (in Chinese) the plan was called off by The Central Propaganda Department and The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. (Whew.) The official line is Super Voice Girls had a lot of "negative" inside stories involved with both the judges and the candidates when it started to become popular. Rumors of blackmail swirled while contestants were labeled concubines and, of course, lesbians (not that there's anything wrong with that).

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    By Zat Liu in on October 21, 2005 5:52 PM

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