Life after the gaokao

You may have noticed two otherwise inconspicuous high school students recently featured on the front page of the Xin Jing Bao (The Beijing News), and if not, you probably noticed that something strange was going on earlier this month. In both instances, the gaokao (高考) is to blame.

Read the rest of this entry »

Not Yahoo!’s job to ‘fix China’

Yahoo! chief executive officer Carol Bartz staunchly defended the Internet company’s business practices in China on Thursday and said it was “not our job to fix the Chinese government”.

Read the rest of this entry »

Companies appeal to China to drop Web filter plan

(AP:BEIJING) Global business groups have made an unusual direct appeal to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to scrap an order for PC makers to supply controversial Internet filtering software, citing security and privacy concerns.

Read the rest of this entry »

Beijing Olympics were the most polluted games ever, researchers say

The Beijing Olympics of 2008 were the most polluted games ever with athletes and spectators exposed to dangerous level of smog, researchers have concluded.

Read the rest of this entry »

Google says it will clean up porn results from its Chinese portal

Beijing, June 21 : Google Inc. has announced that it would take all the necessary measures to comb out pornographic results in its Chinese-language portal, Google.cn.

Read the rest of this entry »

© 2009 Beijing China Resources
Designed by Business Software -- Made free by - Werbung | Neuwagen | PKV Private Krankenversicherung