Minispace - Live uit de Metropool van de Achterhoek! 09 Jul '12 - 22:11 Eupen - Belgium Concert of 'The Boomchickas'. 28 Mar '12 - 20:51 Amsterdam - Keizersgracht China News 30 min ago | The Economist Urbanisation: Where China's future will happen For the world's sake, and its own, China needs to change the way it builds and runs its cities "A GREAT city", said Benjamin Disraeli, "a is the type of some great idea. Trending on the Topix Network
Danwei Readings Xi Jinping’s campaigns are different than those of his predecessor. The latest example is the “Cleaning the Web 2014″ campaign against indecent material. These cleanup campaigns are an annual event that, after a period of noise and naming and shaming, have historically faded away without putting a dent in the huge of amount of lewd content on the Chinese Internet. The China Beat · Blogging How the East Is Read normblog You know those lists of books you get hit with from time to time and of which, for some reason, there have been a lot lately? In the last few days we have had '100 books to love' and 'The books we secretly love - our 50 favourite page-turners' from, respectively, The Sunday Times and The Times (both £). And before that there was the '100 novels everyone should read', and - with inflation - the '1000 novels everyone must read', and '100 Books To Read Before You Die'. There were also the 'top 100 books of all time' and the top 100 titles from the BBC's Big Read. As well as plenty more.
English Window to China News China Brief Old Wine in an Ancient Bottle: Changes in Chinese State Ideology March 20, 2014 Only a year since assuming the top Party post in November 2012, Xi Jinping has emerged as the strongest Chinese leader in decades. His sweeping anti-corruption and mass line campaigns have shaken the bureaucracy, consolidated his... Davids Medienkritik Let's face it: Media tend to over-report the most vile and extreme aspects of our society. "If it bleeds - it leads" is much more than a cliche - it is a journalistic fact of life. The danger with the daily sensationalism is that it skews the viewer's perception of reality. In other words, a viewer is apt to believe that the world around him is a much more rotten than it actually is. Interesting thought experiment: What if you were a foreign correspondent...?
East Asia Forum China Author: Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington After more than a decade of mostly empty talk, China has finally announced a bold move to grant urban residential registration — known as hukou — status to 100 million people by 2020. The target is a major component of China’s new urbanisation plan, which represents a significant commitment towards achieving genuine urbanisation.
South China Morning Post Pilots reveal death-defying ordeal as engines failed on approach to Chek Lap Kok When both of Flight CX780’s engines failed on approach to Chek Lap Kok, tragedy looked certain to its pilots, who hadn’t trained for such an emergency. However, outstanding airmanship led to a safe – if not smooth – landing for the 322 people on board. Now, for the first time, the unsung fliers talk publicly about their death-defying ordeal, Simon Parry reports.