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• Online essay mills target Chinese students

  By Chloe on January 18, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Kexin Lee is a 36-year-old man from Southern China,. He has never had college education and can hardly speak any English, but when it comes to essay writing, hundreds of Chinese students in the UK turn to Lee with their… Read More ›

• Chinese leadership transition; don’t hold your hopes too high

  By Chloe on November 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “Inside the party, there are many problems that need be addressed, especially the problems among party members and officials of corruption and taking bribes, being out of touch with the people, undue emphasis on formalities and bureaucracy and other issues,”… Read More ›

• 57th Tibetan sets himself on fire to fight for a free Tibet, that is less and less likely

  By Chloe on October 23, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  Another Tibetan Monk set himself on fire on the morning of October 22. It is the second self-immolation of Tibetan monks in 48 hours, third in ten days and the 57th since 2009, said Free Tibet. The 50-year-old monk named Dhondup… Read More ›

• Are the Chinese happy?

  By Chloe on October 15, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  The right to be unhappy  A survey called “are you happy” conducted by the China Central Television (CCTV) earlier in October showed that more than 70% of the Chinese being interviewed said they were happy. I have no doubt about… Read More ›

• How to be a Chinese, by a Chinese person

  By Chloe on October 13, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  A complete guide on how to be a Chinese I was talking to my boyfriend about how I liked my new life in the UK and the roasted, boiled, mashed and baked beans. “I feel like an English”, I said… Read More ›

• China: Day care teacher caught on video throwing child to the floor

  By Chloe on October 2, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  A teacher at a child care centre was prosecuted by the local procuratorate yesterday for abusing a 4-year-old child with mental disadvantage. Xu,  a teacher at a private-owned care centre in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, threw the 4-year-old girl to the floor after the… Read More ›

• Murder, sex and lies: the biggest scandal in the history of China’s communist party

  By Chloe on October 1, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  On the 26th of September, the state news agency Xinhua, published an official account on the investigation on Bo XiLai, the ex-communist party leader of Chongqing (a Southern Chinese city with a population of more than 28 million). In the report, Bo is accused of “bribing”, “involvement”… Read More ›

• Pavlov’s Dog and Good Samaritans in China

  By Chloe on September 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  In the late nineteenth century, Ivan Potrovitch Pavlov, a Russian Physiologist conducted an experiment in which a dog was fed when a bell was rung. After dozens of feeding along with the ringing, the dog started to have heavy flows… Read More ›

• Chinese counterfeits with Chinese characteristics

  By Chloe on August 21, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week I went to buy a new portable hard drive. In one electronic shop that had a one-bite-absent-apple sign at their front door, I saw a Samsung 320 G at 500 RMB. That is about 85USD, which sounded like a proper price… Read More ›

• China’s nationalised Olympic team: the personal cost of winning and losing

  By Chloe on July 31, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  While David Cameron promised to turn Olympics into gold for the British, the Chinese athletes vowed to bring back gold. Unlike Mr Cameron, who keeps surprising his tax payers with an increasing Olympics budget, the Chinese athletes are keeping their… Read More ›

• Beijing floods kill 77

  By Chloe on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The flood that drowned the Capital of China on 21st of July has killed 77 people, according to the government authority. This figure is twice as high as the initial death toll announced previously, which had been fiercely questioned by angry… Read More ›

• The grievances of Chinese farmers; an endless story

  By Chloe on July 19, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  More than six decades after the end of feudalism in China, land-rights still remains the number one problem facing Chinese farmers, despite the law implemented in 1990 articulating that “agricultural land must be formally contracted to farmers who will have limited… Read More ›

• China Faces Pension Crisis

  By Chloe on July 16, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Study predicts a USD 2.8 trillion pension shortage in China next year. By the year 2013, China will face a pension gap of RMB 18.3 trillion (about USD 2.8 trillion), says  Ma Jun, chief economist and investment strategist of Deutsche Bank Greater… Read More ›

• China’s Taobao offers bizarre items for sale

  By Chloe on July 15, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  If I were asked the question “what is it that has changed the life of common Chinese the most during the past five years,” my answer would definitely be Taobao.com.  Taobao is an online market place similar to E-bay. Since it… Read More ›

• Hong Kong: Paradise Lost

  By Chloe on July 12, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  I visited Hong Kong in 2011.  After forty minutes of entry formalities at customs, I stepped into Hong Kong, a land of ridiculous housing price, luxury hotels and restaurants, fast walking people, and a touch of freedom that as a… Read More ›

• China Weibo: When regulation hits its stride, freedom of speech retreats

  By Chloe on July 12, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Weibo.com, the Chinese version of Twitter, has announced new rules today to complement the existing Weibo Community Convention.  The new rules have announced some  stricter measures to control the dissemination and sharing of information via the internet in China. The prior… Read More ›