A woman goes shopping with a green bag in Beijing. The “environmentally-friendly” shopping bags are popping up everywhere in Beijing - from small shops to luxurious shopping malls.
“I’m not green, but I could be,” reads one. Others have similar messages printed on them, “My Bag”, “Use Me and Re-use Me”.
Since the Chinese government issued its [...]
Last year we commented on a difference in how sports teams are referred to in Britain and New Zealand: “England are playing well”, but “New Zealand is playing well”.
We wondered whether the difference related to a perception that the team is a bunch of individuals (are) or a coherent single entity (is).
Kate Blackhurst e-mailed at [...]
An acceleration recently in the yuan’s gains has been squeezing China-based exporters, including multinationals, at a time when they already are wincing at surging costs for labor, energy and materials.”Our costs keep rising and the dollar is falling so we make less money than ever before,” said a quality control manager at EI Global, an [...]
Beijing is trying to cool the investment boom, worried that it could ignite a debt crisis if unneeded projects fail and investors default on loans. Authorities have hiked interest rates repeatedly to discourage spending and imposed curbs on investment in the auto, textile and other industries where the supply of assets exceeds demand.Despite the curbs, [...]
From office workers in Shanghai to laborers on Shenzhen construction sites, instant noodles are eaten with relish due to the low cost and convenience.
My husband and son love instant noodles. They eat them as breakfast and as a midnight snack, more than twice each week, says Yun, a 41-year-old housewife as she wandered down the [...]
Fresh snow in parts of China has again disrupted transport and killed livestock, as the country struggles to recover from the worst winter in half a century.
Snow started to blanket the eastern province of Shandong on Sunday and from 10:00 a.m. yesterday, 15 flights had been delayed at the airport in Jinan, the provincial capital. [...]
“Take good care of ourselves; prevent AIDS,†reads the slogan on the wall.
Unmarked tombs scatter the mountainside behind Mangbing village; buried there are local drug users who died from AIDS. Considered “unnatural deaths”, they were denied burial in their family cemeteries, and the epitaphs have been left deliberately blank.
Longchuan, the county where [...]
Embassy of the Islamic State of Afghanistan
Chancery: No. 8, Dong Zhi Men Wai Da Jie, Beijing, China
Telephone: (8610) 6532 1582
Embassy of the Republic of Albania
Chancery: No. 28, Guang Hua Lu, Beijing, China
Telephone: (8610) 6532 1120 Facsimile: (8610) 6532 5451
Embassy of the ocratiDemc People’s Republic of Algeria
Chancery: No. 7, San Li Tun Lu, Beijing, China
Telephone: (8610) [...]
