
After Google’s announcement that Google.cn, its local search engine in mainland China, would withdraw from China and shut down, local media in Beijing conducted a survey which shows over 80% of online users think it will not affect the development of Chinese online business. The online survey is conducted by Huanqiu.com; questions include “What’s the …

From China Daily BEIJING – The sandstorms that have swept across China over the past two weeks are the result of strong and frequent cold spells rather than desertification, according to leading meteorologists. In contrast to widespread opinion, the number of yellow and dusty days has actually decreased overall since the 1980s, they said. Since …

China’s One Child Policy introduced in 1978 was the country’s official population control policy. After more than thirty years since the One-Child Policy was introduced, people born in the early 1980s are now entering parenthood. In general, the policy serves the original purpose of reducing the population growth rate in China. However, it also causes …

China Central Television’s (CCTV) “315 Evening Gala” is an important national occasion held every March 15th to expose defective merchandise to the public and protect consumers’ rights. This year it covered major quality defects in two types of Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptops. Since 2009, the HP Pavilion dv2000 and Compaq Presario V3000 laptops have been the …

Recently Xia Da (夏达), a Chinese manga artist, became popular in Asia, especially in Japan and China. Other than her delicate cartoon works, her popularity could also be attributed to her innocent and attractive image. Born in 1981, her look is much younger than her real age. Xia Da began drawing cartoon and publishing her …