The New Yorker’s China correspondent, Evan Osnos, visited the Colbert Report on Thursday to talk about the fast-growing superpower. Among Colbert’s suggestions to beat China at their own game: blow up the sun.
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High-Price Postage: Set of Chinese Stamps Sells for More Than a Million Dollars
Yet another call of the China bears: beware of the stamp bubble!
Quotes: China’s Environment Minister Says Situation is Dire
“In China’s thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.”
— ZHOU SHENGXIAN, China’s environment minister, in a statement published on his agency’s …
China’s Failed ‘Jasmine’ Revolution Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment
Next Media Animation brings us this darkly funny take Beijing’s aggressive response to calls for anti-government protests.
Population Control, Meet Puppy Control: Shanghai Passes One-Dog Law
You’ve heard of China’s one-child policy, but have you heard of the one-dog policy?
New Zealand Quake: Many Tourists Among the Hundreds Still Missing
New Zealand’s Tuesday earthquake has left a death toll that has now climbed to over 100, with more than 220 people still missing. But the tragedy goes far beyond New Zealand’s shores, as visitors from China, Japan, Taiwan, …
China Censors U.S. Ambassador Huntsman’s Name on Twitter Clones
It’s well known that Googling (or, better yet, Baidu-ing) so called “sensitive” terms in China will return no results. Or pages that will not open. Because of last Sunday’s stunt in Beijing, Jon Huntsman, ambassador to China …
12 Million Tons of Chinese Rice Contaminated
Chinese government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week’s edition of …
Quotes: Writer Murong Xuecun on Censorship in China
“I call this ‘castrated writing’ — I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself even before the surgeon raises his scalpel.”
MURONG XUECUN, Chinese writer, in a speech on censorship and self-censorship. Murong …
Stabbing Pains: Chinese Man Has Knife in His Head for Four Years
What are the chances you wouldn’t notice a blade stuck in your head for several years?
Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, Killing Foreign Travelers and Tour Guide
A boat anchored in northeastern Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay sank on Thursday at dawn, killing a dozen sleeping onboard, most young foreign tourists. The picturesque UNESCO Heritage Site, flecked with ancient limestone formations, is …
To Battle Drought, China Pumps $1 Million Into Artificial Rain
China is a nation of superlatives, and its role in weather manipulation is no exception. (via Ecocentric)