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China in headlinesPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, January 22, 2007 8:42 PM
Below are some recent headlines from mainstream media and blogs. If you read a huge variety of English language media, you can get an idea of the complexity of China's increasingly diverse society. Of course, most people in the West do not read a huge variety of sources for China information. Corrupt officials, diseases and international media New regulations on reporting in China by the foreign press may help to shed more light. The rules, which took effect on January 1st and are intended to facilitate coverage of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008, mean resident correspondents no longer require government approval for reporting trips in the provinces. Mr Zhu and several other villagers in Shuangmiao watched in surprise as a group of local officials trying to stop your correspondent from interviewing him apologised and retreated after an intervention by the foreign ministry in Beijing. China's slow entrance into the international trading system The Chinese ministry responsible for promoting exports has backed a further appreciation of the renminbi, removing one of the last remaining institutional lobbies in Beijing against a stronger currency. You know a country has plenty of rich people when... Xinhua reports: China discourages travel to South Pole. Excerpt: The Chinese government has warned its citizens to "think carefully before signing up for a trip to Antarctica", said officials from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), the National Tourism Administration (NTA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... About a really rich person Zhang Yin is now among the richest women anywhere in the world, including Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart and eBay’s chief executive, Meg Whitman. Her personal wealth is estimated at $1.5 billion or more, with members of her family worth billions more. Sex, now more popular than ever The last of the old revolutionaries Bo Yibo, Chinese communist revolutionary and one of the last and most influential of the “Eight Immortals” who dominated the nation’s politics in the 1980s and early 1990s, has died at the age of 98. Reality TV and the Olympics China's first reality television show for wannabe Olympians makes its debut today on prime-time television, in a bid to drum up fervor for the Beijing 2008 Games... A lot of bad stuff happening far away from Beijing |
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Comments on China in headlines
uhmm..the complexity..
Good post.
Its really sad to know about the devastation that AIDS has caused in China.