Overview of articles about 'China News Soft' Category

It’s the year of Italy in China, actually also the year of Russia and the Year of the British Poems in the Shanghai subway, but I digress.
There are pasta exchanges (the jury is still out on who invented the long pieces of dough), and other cultural feats.
From the Year of Italy in […]

This is what a panda looks like after having been inseminated. Seems she’s shagged out.

Source: SH

The first meeting of the China-Brazil High-level Coordination and Cooperation Committee aka the CBHCCC is happening right now.
CCTV 9 (aka The Closed Content Television) here in China had some promising news.
I quote Hong Kong presenter James:
“Brazil and China will promote cooperation in various fields”
I am sure you didn’t want to miss that one.
To […]

China is going to tax the chopstick.
According to the Dutch radio

5% will be levied on wooden chopsticks from next month.
Yearly about 1,3 miljoen m3 wood is used to produce 15 billion (pairs of) chopsticks.
A couple of years ago, 2001 to be exact, the number according to the Washington Times was
45 billion pairs […]

Three opinions in todays Shanghai Daily. Up to you whether you agree with me or with them:
1. Free flow of ideas with Internet in China
“A strong government under the leadership of the Communist Party, with one feature being state ownership of the news media, is by no means necessarily antithetical to the free flow […]

A female friend once said that she doesn’t want to get married yet (she’s living together) as the pressure on becoming pregnant right away after the big day would be too big.
Chinese parents, especially the older generation, want their children to be secure. Relationships (boy/girl of course), marriage and a baby are the key […]

It’s already old news, I do realize that. No doubt it has been the opening item in the news all over the world so what I am about to tell you won’t be that exciting.
Still, I posted before about the arduous task “the people who decide” had in determining the winners of the Panda […]

It’s not easy to become the pandas destined to live in China’s renegade province. It’s not even sure when the big winners are chosen as the “Panda pair for Taiwan may be revealed on Friday”.
There are some insightful pointers though about the contest and the selection criteria.
An anonymous source at the centre said it […]

Beggars are part of life in China. Foreigners tend to have somewhat different opinions whether you should or should not give. Is the beggar king raking it in, are they pretending?
It doesn’t really matter to me. In the end of the day a couple of Renminbis is easy to spare, even if […]

The saga continues. (see previous post on selling the moon).
The Beijing company ‘Lunar Embassy’ is not giving up its right to sell pieces of the moon, despite being forbidden to do so by the Beijing’s industrial and commercial watchdog agency.
It filed suit in Beijing to regain its business license.

The industrial and commercial watchdog agency […]