Chinese Courts Are Selling Seized Assets on Alibaba’s Taobao
on November 4, 2014
Ever wonder what it's like to live large like a corrupt Chinese businessman or official? This is your chance.
China Planning $16.3 Billion Fund for “New Silk Road”
on November 4, 2014
The fund, overseen by Chinese policy banks, will be used to build and expand railways, roads and pipelines in Chinese provinces that are part of the strategy to facilitate trade over land and shipping routes.
In Pictures: Designed in China
on November 4, 2014
The Guo Shoujing Telescope, or Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, is named after the 13th Century Chinese astronomer and is aimed at bringing Chinese astronomy into the 21st Century.
A Comb Worth Fighting For
on November 3, 2014
By one estimate, the number of Chinese Christians could by 2030 have reached 250 million—the largest Christian population of any country in the world.
China Celebrates Successful Moon Probe
on November 3, 2014
The mission to the Moon was “another step forward for China's ambition that could eventually land a Chinese citizen there,” Xinhua, China’s official news agency, said. It was “the world's first mission to the Moon and back for some 40 years.”
China Rolls out the Red Carpet for APEC
on November 3, 2014
The APEC summit of nations that collectively represent more than half the global economy is more about dialogue and non-binding commitments than implementing change.
China Officials “Buy Corpses to Meet Cremation Quota”
on November 3, 2014
Two officials in Guangdong province have been arrested after they allegedly bought corpses from grave robbers to have them cremated, Chinese media say.
Is China’s Grand Ethnic Experiment Working?
on November 3, 2014
In a gleaming classroom at Chong Hua High School in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, students peer at onion slices under microscopes. Their biology teacher calls on Abdurrahman Mamat to explain what he sees.
"Plasmolysis," he replies in perfect Mandarin.
Manual on How to Spot a Spy Circulates in an Increasingly Wary China
on November 3, 2014
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Or an American spy. Or a “hostile foreign force.” So says the “China Folk Counterespionage Manual,” a “how to spot a spy” guide circulating on the Internet.
Wanted: 500,000 Pilots for China Aviation Gold Rush
on November 3, 2014
The aviation boom comes asChina allows private planes to fly below 1,000 meters from next year without military approval, seeking to boost its transport infrastructure.