China Gains Respect From Its Emigrants – David Pierson
From the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): When Yong Chen came to California 30 years ago, he left behind a hometown in central China’s Hubei province so mired in poverty that he worried...
View Article$4.11 mln Donated to Promote Chinese Language Education Overseas – Xinhua
From Xinhua: Chinese Language and Culture Education Foundation (CLCEF) has received its largest yet donation of 30 million yuan (4.11 million U.S. dollars), according to the CLCEF here Tuesday. The...
View ArticleChinese Beaten Up in Zambia Mines
From BBC News : A Chinese manager at a copper smelter in northern Zambia has been admitted to hospital after being assaulted by workers demanding better conditions. An estimated 500 workers at the...
View ArticleZambians Sacked Over China Attack
From BBC News : Some 500 Zambian mine workers have been sacked after rioting and attacking a Chinese manager . Those sacked have three days to reapply for their jobs, while seven union officials have...
View Article‘Oil Chinese’ in Venezuela Are Treading Carefully
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Mr Li is the embodiment of today’s fastest growing world power: China. He strikes oil deals, builds hospitals and motorways, sells merchandise, takes over companies...
View Article3 Kidnapped Chinese Freed in Nigeria
From AP via Examiner.com: Three Chinese construction workers who were abducted in southern Nigeria‘s troubled oil region have been released, the government said Saturday. The Chinese were freed Friday...
View ArticleChinese American Students And The Communication Gap
From Sing Tao Daily via New America Media: At the end of his first day of school in 1995, Xiaohua Zhang, a nine-year boy who had recently immigrated from China, told his mom cheerfully, “My classmates...
View ArticleChinese Officials Threaten to Blow Up Family’s Dam
John Garnaut reports in the Sydney Morning Herald: An Australian-Chinese family spent five years and $5 million building a small hydro-electric power project in north-eastern China, at the invitation...
View ArticleChina Evacuates Nationals From Chaotic Libya
For the estimated 33,000 Chinese working and living in Libya, the Chinese government has offered “all-out efforts to secure [their] life and property”, as protests there escalate. From People’s Daily:...
View ArticleChinese Tourists Urged to Improve Their Behavior
A photo posted on Sina Weibo showing Chinese graffiti on an ancient temple in Luxor, Egypt went viral, leading netizens to dig up and reveal the vandal’s name and school name. The teenager’s parents...
View ArticleChinese Workers Found Dead in Kabul
China has urged the Afghan government to protect Chinese citizens after three were found dead in a Kabul apartment on Friday. The Chinese embassy says they are believed to have been targeted because of...
View ArticleChinese Students Flock To US, But Not For Long
The New York Times reports that more than 100,000 Chinese students seeking an academic edge spent the summer in the United States, a trend which has made poorer families “jealous”: But concerns about...
View ArticleU.S. Shutdown: The View from China
As the U.S. government enters the second day in shutdown mode, citizens and media around the world (and in the U.S.) responded with bafflement and dismay. In China, the government took the opportunity...
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