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Swimming: Phelps breaks 100m fly world record
Eight-time gold medal winner at the Beijing Olympics and multiple world-record holder Michael Phelps warmed up for the Swimming World Championships in Rome by setting a new men’s world record in the 100 meters butterfly.
China Dubious That Yao Ming Could Be Out of the Game
When Yao Ming went down during the third game of the Houston Rockets’ Western Conference semifinals series versus the Los Angeles Lakers on May 8, the big man moaned and slapped the floor. Now it is Chinese fans’ turn to grimace after a team doctor announced Monday that the stress fracture in the Chinese basketball player’s left foot is more serious than previously feared, and could even end the 7’6″ center’s career.
Is a Trade War with China Brewing?
When the U.S. Senate last February introduced a clause requiring the purchase of U.S.-made steel and iron in Washington’s $787 billion stimulus package, the Chinese government decried the “Buy American” measure as a dangerous step toward trade protectionism, stressing that Beijing would not respond in kind.
In China, V is for The Vagina Monologues
It’s been performed in more than 120 countries in at least 45 languages, and now The Vagina Monologues has officially arrived in China. After a successful run in Beijing in March, the Chinese production of Eve Ensler’s famous play swept into Shanghai this weekend. Wang Chong, the play’s Beijing-born director, translated Ensler’s script from English for a three-woman cast, taking care to closely match the meaning of hard-to-translate words like “vagina” and its less anatomical synonyms
Twittering Air Pollution Levels in Beijing
Anyone stepping outside in Beijing around midday on June 18 would have noticed something slightly amiss.
Layman-turned-relics hunter rescues China’s antiquities
Searching through the rubble of demolition sites across the 800-year-old capital of China, Li Songtang has unearthed a treasure trove of ancient relics. They include gate piers depicting Mongolians and the Han Chinese during the Yuan dynasty, a Buddhist carving that is more than 1,000 years old, and a Ming dynasty marble fish water tank. Li Songtang is neither museum curator nor antiques expert, but an ordinary man who did not want to see China’s rich history lost to modernization during the late 1970s.
Your Move, China
If North Korea has in the past made a habit of annoying China, its only ostensible ally in the world, what must Beijing be thinking now? For most of the past six years, China has been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program
Hong Kong to hold sole Tiananmen vigil on Chinese soil
Thousands of people were converging Thursday on a park in Hong Kong to mark the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Above the Law? China’s Bully Law-Enforcement Officers
On a typical day, few of the hundreds of thousands of people who flow past the Liujiayao Bridge in southern Beijing give any notice to Su Lianzhi. But on March 23, the 53-year-old fruit vendor became the cause of thousands of passing commuters.