BEIJING – A senior judge has suggested that not all drunken drivers should be held criminally responsible, despite the fact that the newly amended Criminal Law defines it as a crime. Starting on May 1,…
Category: China
Research says millions are displaced annually as a result of climate disasters. We must take the precautionary approach
BEIJING – What is the most lucrative industry in China? The answer lies in selling neither securities nor real estate but in building highways. Payments of highway and bridge tolls make up as much as…
Most global investors predict China’s yuan will be convertible into other currencies by 2016, with 50 percent seeing it joining the dollar, yen and euro as a reserve currency within a decade, a Bloomberg poll…
The news that local family planning officials have been seizing babies and selling them overseas for adoption has sent shock waves through the nation. The actions of the officials have been condemned for sheer inhumanity…
Like many countries that are fascinated with education, China has its own ranking list of schools, Wu Shulian’s Chinese University Rankings (CUR). Each year the announcement of CUR routinely attracts criticism of its questionable methodology….
Museum burglars bring to mind a Sean Connery type sneaking through a ceiling. Museum security was usually thought to be so good that those looking to steal art would be forced to come up with…
Peasants have paid a heavy price for China’s political and economic transition. They have nothing left to lose except their land, and now, even that is likely to be taken away. As big cities expand,…
At a time when the whole world is entangled in economic difficulties, frantic Chinese shoppers are rushing overseas to purchase luxury goods, showing their strong consumption capability to the outside world. This panic-buying phenomenon confuses…
A bun shop in Shanghai, days after a supplier’s license was revoked. The nation’s food scandals are proliferating again.