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Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:31:09 +0000 | shanghaidaily.com
MA Xiaoxu, Chinese women’s football star, became an official member of a Dalian football club, with a monthly salary of around 3,000 yuan (US$376.88), a Jinan-based newspaper said today. It’s one of the highest salaries among China’s female football players, said Jinan Times. Striker Ma won the Golden Ball as an MVP and the Golden [...]
Supplier of poisonous snails found
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:42:46 +0000 | shanghaidaily.com
GUANGXI’S health authority yesterday found the supplier of the apple snails that have poisoned more than 130 people in Beijing, and is now doing tests on the snails that have been seized, Xinhua news agency said today. “I have suspended the purchase and sale of the apple snails,” the supplier from Guangxi’s Lingui County, told [...]
[TS] New York Isn't the World's Undisputed Financial Capital
27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 | New York Times
New York’ s crown as the world financial capital may be slipping, raising alarm in Washington and in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’ s office.
Criticism on China?s Think Tank
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:07:24 +0000 | China View
By Lin Ping, Radio Free Asia, Dec 25, 2006- Beijing hosted China’s first “Forum on Think Tanks” and selected the “Top Ten Think Tanks of China.” However, articles published in Beijing’s newspapers criticized that China’s think tanks cannot march to the beat of a different drum, and the public has no freedom to voice their [...]
Top Chinese - English Hybrid Words of 2006
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:28:23 +0000 | China View
Global Language Monitor , November 22, 2006 - ( San Diego, Calif.) - ‘No Noising’ and ‘Airline Pulp’ have been named the Top Chinglish Words of 2006 in The Global Language Monitor’s annual survey of the Chinese-English hybrid words known more commonly as Chinglish. Though often viewed with amusement by the rest of the English-speaking [...]
New Website Wikileaks to Expose Regimes Like China
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:53:49 +0000 | China View
By Elizabeth Williamson, Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, January 15, 2007- You’re a government worker in China, and you’ve just gotten a memo showing the true face of the regime. Without any independent media around, how do you share what you have without landing in jail or worse? Wikileaks.org is a Web-based way for people with damning, [...]
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